Megaupload Dead

[Breetai]

Right on spot Breetai

All I did was paraphrase Alex Jones...

[Hatta]

Did I get that right?

Almost. I'd also mentioned how the notoriously gridlocked US Congress was able to come into bi-partisan agreement so quickly over a bill they admitted they didn't understand, was bad for the country, the internet, and the economy, because the entertainment lobby paid them all off. Chris Dodd even made his bribery public on Fox News.


The real story here isn't SOPA. The real story is how the SOPA debacle shines a light on how corrupt our system truly is.

[MrPopo]

Did I get that right?

Almost. I'd also mentioned how the notoriously gridlocked US Congress was able to come into bi-partisan agreement so quickly over a bill they admitted they didn't understand, was bad for the country, the internet, and the economy, because the entertainment lobby paid them all off. Chris Dodd even made his bribery public on Fox News.


The real story here isn't SOPA. The real story is how the SOPA debacle shines a light on how corrupt our system truly is.

I prefer public bribery to private bribery. At least with public bribery it gives people an opportunity to not vote for the candidate again/stop patronizing company X.

[AppleQueso]

-The US gov't flexes their muscles by shutting down Megaupload, claiming that it was breaking US copyright somewhere in the state of Virginia. However, the site is run by a Dutch citizen living in New Zealand. The US gov't finds him in New Zealand, confiscates his things and arrests him (not sure if he was arrested?), despite him not being on US soil.

Did I get that right?

MU servers were located in the US so it was in their jurisdiction.

I also severely doubt that this case had anything to do with SOPA. They were probably pursuing it long before SOPA ever popped up in congress.

[OldSchool_Boy]

- Megaupload has servers in Virginia, DC, California, and Toronto.

- "Mega Conspiracy has paid more than $65 million to hosting providers around the world for computer leasing, hosting, bandwidth… Mega Conspiracy affirmatively chose to financially reward specific uploaders of infringing copies of copyrighted content."

- Megaupload was paying Carpathia, their Virginia-based hosting company, between $700,000 and $1 million per month from a bank account in Hong Kong.

- Cogent Communications, an Atlanta-based ISP, was making a steady $1 million per month from May 2009 until February 2011.

Fun Fact: Kim Dotcom was/(is?) the number 1 player in Call of Duty MW3. Video of the celebration.

[Breetai]

-The US gov't flexes their muscles by shutting down Megaupload, claiming that it was breaking US copyright somewhere in the state of Virginia. However, the site is run by a Dutch citizen living in New Zealand. The US gov't finds him in New Zealand, confiscates his things and arrests him (not sure if he was arrested?), despite him not being on US soil.

Did I get that right?

MU servers were located in the US so it was in their jurisdiction.

I also severely doubt that this case had anything to do with SOPA. They were probably pursuing it long before SOPA ever popped up in congress.

Yet the poster below you confirms Virginia and a few other states (and Toronto). Maybe Virginia was where they went after?

Sure, I'm sure the case was in the works before... but it's the timing that is most concerning. Kind of like how they rolled out the x-ray machines in airports right after the underwear bomber thing and used the underwear bomber as the reasoning for it. They definitely had them ready well before that.

[Pulsar_t]

chicken shits.

[GameMasterGuy]

So, anyone care to drag 2012 apocalypse theories into this?

[OldSchool_Boy]

Conspiracy Keanu

[Hobie-wan]

So how many people lamenting these services are doing so because they were transferring legitimate files?