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Spotlesseden
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fileserve, filesonic ... are next.
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Beatdigga
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Charging money for premium downloading accounts left them wide open.
There are dozens of Megaupload clones though. |
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Kougeru
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it's a joke. everytime I see an anime on megaupload/megavideo it's gone within hours or days ..tops, usually. RARELY will I see one that has lasted longer. If it gets reported, they would delete it. I don't know about all this profit they supposedly made FROM this stuff (as far as i know only subscribers and ads were making them any money..which is for the site in general and not for any specific file). Just a joke to me, with the information I have. I hope there's a lot more going on here otherwise just based on what we really know so far..youtube is just as bad. I've seen files on there since the site was launched that are STILL on there and such.
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yu3lora
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OMG..
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1945113
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This is bullcrap, megaupload is my 3rd favorite site to download from, if they dare go after 4share I will rage...but omg IF THEY DARE TOUCH MEDIAFIRE- I WILL GIVE THEM THE FREAKIN' PUNISHMENT OF THEIR LIFETIME X_X!.
~but I could careless about fileserve...because ofc I don't wanna pay for that...and it sucks imo. @Kougeru - within hours or days o_o? I've seen things that have been on for years on megavideo- megaupload I can see them being taken down quickly but not megavideo. |
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Razzuel
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How does a Hong Kong based company/website get shut down by the FBI and indicted by a grand jury in Virginia?
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Mr. sickVisionz
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No.
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Teriyaki Terrier
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This was only a matter of time Megaupload, I'd say that is fairly correct.
Up next, bit torrent. |
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Glory Questor
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Because of this little bit of reasoning (the original news story is here if you want to read it for yourself): "Many question whether O'Dwyer should face trial in the US, considering that he's never been to the states and TVShack didn't use US servers. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, however, maintains that any internet domain ending in .com or .net is fair game for US authorities as the company that provides those particular suffixes falls under US jurisdiction." |
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Mad_Scientist
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@Mr. sickVisionz
Did you read the rest of article? There were some oddities about the indictment that Ars Technica noted.
Yah, their are parts of the indictment that, if true, don't look that great for megaupload... but I'm still hesitant to trust the government in this case until further details are revealed, and megapload has a chance to tell their side of the story. |
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firedragon54738
Posts: 3113 Location: wisconsin |
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Well that one down and 500 more just popped up
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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Quick, someone alert the Department of Justice. |
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Psycho_Despair
Posts: 376 Location: East of Eden |
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I am right on it!! *dialing phone* |
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Melanchthon
Posts: 550 Location: Northwest from Here |
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Megaupload was a scummy site, and I'm not particularly upset to see it go. However, it made a fatal mistake. It had servers located in America, which put it under American jurisdiction. Should have located them in Germany, where rapidshare has been found to be legal, twice. Of course, mega is already back up and running, with a new domain licensed in Belize (Stupidly, though, the servers are still in America). And fileserve and filesonic are somewhat more safe because nobody know who actually owns them, and therefore they can't be sued like this. (Though they could still be ICE'd)
So I looked up non sequitur in the dictionary, and it had your post next to it. |
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Fletcher1991
Posts: 514 Location: Long Island, NY |
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This is a big shot to anime streaming sites, the illegal ones of course. Since like most of them (I'd say like 60-90%) of them mostly use megavideo as their video player. Guess it was bound to happen sooner or later lol.
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