Ramblings of an old Doc

 

The owners of the most popular site for uploading “files” Megaupload has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for causing more than $500 million in lost revenue because of pirating TV shows,music and other content.

The company is run out of Hong Kong (surprise) but is hosted in part in Ashburn, VA where the indictment was made.

“Megaupload founder and operator -- Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz) -- was arrested along with three others in New Zealand on Thursday at the request of US officials. A total of seven were arrested globally, and their charges include conspiracy to commit racketeering and criminal copyright infringement for running the "the Mega conspiracy websites" according to the DOJ. Dotcom is no stranger to the wrong side of the law, previously being convicted for credit card fraud, hacking, insider trading and embezzlement.” - http://www.neowin.net/news/megaupload-charged-with-piracy-shut-down

Anonymous wasn’t about to take this lying down. So, they did what they do best and generated DNS attacks on The US Department of Justice, Universal Music, RIAA and MPAA websites.

This just in: Anonymous has taken down hadopi.fr which is the French anti-piracy organization.

From their Twitter feed:

 

Sources:

http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous-takes-down-doj-website-in-response-to-megaupload-news

http://www.neowin.net/news/megaupload-charged-with-piracy-shut-down

https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23OpPayBack

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indictment-charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html


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on Jan 22, 2012

I loved MU for being able to distribute my mod (SOTYR). Damn US Gov of Ass

on Jan 22, 2012

Filesonic has now stopped all file sharing. Members can only download their own uploads. Just read it on AOL.

on Jan 22, 2012

RedneckDude
Filesonic has now stopped all file sharing. Members can only download their own uploads. Just read it on AOL.

The Collapse of the Internet has started. Will it stay relatively slow with one or two sites at a time? Legislation hasn't even been passed yet and places are either getting shut down or doing it on their own. This could be a bumpy ride a lot sooner than people think.

on Jan 22, 2012

Thoumsin
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you mean old stuff like snes/megadrive? the ones that got pirated via special floppy drives and floppies?

on Jan 22, 2012

RavenX
The Collapse of the Internet has started.

At the very least. Somehow, I think it'll survive... but only if Gore doesn't turn it off.

on Jan 22, 2012

DrJBHL
Quoting RavenX, reply 109The Collapse of the Internet has started.



 

LoL Doc.

on Jan 22, 2012

As long as there's still someone/somewhere to continue hosting/displaying the 80% of all the images on the net which are of naked women...then the Net will survive just fine....

on Jan 22, 2012

RavenX
The Collapse of the Internet has started. Will it stay relatively slow with one or two sites at a time? Legislation hasn't even been passed yet and places are either getting shut down or doing it on their own. This could be a bumpy ride a lot sooner than people think.

SOPA-thetic

on Jan 22, 2012

I wonder, why didnt they continualy hit the big studios' online streaming services, for a few days.....that would hurt them most...

on Jan 22, 2012

"your next" ....your next what?

Oh....

YOU'RE next......now it makes 'sense' ..... Spell checker

on Jan 22, 2012

YOU'RE next......now it makes 'sense'

Their ya go 

Edit They're ya go 

on Jan 22, 2012

As long as there's still someone/somewhere to continue hosting/displaying the 80% of all the images on the net which are of naked women...then the Net will survive just fine....

I'd say that depends. If those naked women's images are copyrighted they'll be gone too. Truly though, if they scour all the porn off the internet there will be revolutions world wide lol.

on Jan 22, 2012

Their ya go 

Edit They're ya go 

 

 

Or maybe even "there ya go"?       Lo frickin L

 

on Jan 22, 2012

DrJBHL
but only if Gore doesn't turn it off.

I've been wanting to make a Gore reference in a couple of these threads but I didn't think it would fly.

I doubt that the end is here.  We'll just do what we always do - get all carried away going one direction, then get all torqued off, then get all carried away going the other direction, then get all torqued off, and on and on.  "We are Spaz."

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