megaupload.com is gone...who's next, say goodbye to freedom


The filesharing site Megaupload.com has been taken down by the FBI as the Justice Department(http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/Janua...-074.html) unsealed an indictment charging seven people associated with the site. The 72-page indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury in Virginia on January 5, charges the seven people, including Megaupload's founders Kim Dotcom and Mathias Ortman, with conspiracy.

Four of the people named—including Dotcom Ortmann, Megaupload.com chief marketing officer Finn Batao, and developer Bram van der Kolk—are in custody, arrested in New Zealand today, according to the FBI. The FBI worked with authorities from New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, the UK and the Phillipines, and in concert with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the case.


The indictment charges that the "Mega conspiracy" has for more than five years operated websites that willfully distributed pirated movies, often before their theatrical release, and other illegal copies of copyrighted works, earning the company over $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue.

Megaupload is also charged with money laundering by paying uploaders through an "uploader reward program," and paying other companies to host the pirated content.


As of the afternoon of January 19, the site for Megaupload.com had not been redirected, and requests simply timed out. Ars will provide additional coverage as details develop.

FBI Press Release
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-r...fringement

it's the wilful bit that will get them if they were still paying people how had had multiple DCMA notices and the management knew about it and encouraged it (which i believe chats logs show they did) then they are fucked

I think Mediafire or Rapidshare is next..!

http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA

i just sent my 2nd email to one senator that supports PIPA. Then my first email to thank the other for standing up against this crap.

This jokers politicians have nothing else to do but collect money from corporation then just say yes Sir to those corporation. "Your wish is my command. Shall I bend now?"

that's why more people need to be aware and vote. get these bastards out of office and make sure the ones coming up know, "you WILL NOT fuck with us, you will work for us or the next one will" . if not then those that don't vote should just lay down infront of them and get stepped on.

BTjunkie closed down on their own free will, it looks like. guess they didn't want to face possible charges. here we go down the road to a more severe police state.