Techxplained: Megaupload Debacle

[hubert4433]

this was really interesting!! I'm liking the new style! thumps up if you feel the same way!!

[F25VS]

Great

[MrGiovhanny]

This vid was more informative than the 10 or so news articles that I read on this event, Please make more Techxplanations! Next topic: Apple v. Samsung lawsuit battle!

[ismasalgado]

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[jayson181pontiac]

I like Techxplained!

[calebcharlebois12]

@TazzyOpz either way, i got a virus from megaupload.

[thegtalover]

3m43s you forgot Megaporn

[Yoshi7892]

Please do more of this. I'd love to learn more

[66gfunk]

probably was what u said, charges of a specific law can b very broad...

[TheHITechGuy]

@ThatSnazzyiPhoneGuy It's because they were giving incentives to people to upload illegal content just so it gets more web traffic.

[MrWiseinheart]

If someone for some reason didn't like megaupload or simply doesn't care, I say to them it starts with one thing and doesn't stop there it will continue like cancer cells in till it wipes out every other site there is. So people wake up and start acting now because sooner or later they will take away all your rights and privileges. Be wise with all that you do!

[ryan1202011]

hey quinn tomorrow on nz tv are going inside the dot com house 3 news nz google it

[dominick1290]

how did we arrest him if he was in new zealand?

[calebcharlebois12]

Really well explained! I got a really bad virus from megaupload... broke my computer and had to pay $150 for a repair.

[TazzyOpz]

@calebcharlebois12 Apprently you don't get the point. It's not (Megauploads) fault you got the virus it's the person that distributed the file. Megaupload didn't upload the infected file someone else did.

[peeeoopep]

nice vid i subbed :)

[SpiffyMcSnazzy]

Loved this. Thank you.

[GEEKBOI03]

nice vid

[crazyvideos555]

whts the extetion 

[minecraftking1448]

very interesting and would love to have more! thanks;)

[aang181818]

Wow guy this video sucks, it's one giant tangent.

[hanvo216]

Bittorrent is quite big and they are all about movies and songs as well. But hey they are backed by CBS and MSNBC . its ok if they do it but not for megaupload.

Megabox lets musicians sell songs direct to us and cut out those large record companies. This business model will destroy those large music cooperation's

[hanvo216]

kim dotcom was a smart man,but he made a mistake that he will regret forever.he should of lived in North korea,Russia or Germany where the US can never get him . Live in countries where the government bows down to US power is a bad move

[Zermelo]

It would be nice to know how the FBI had authority to enforce US law on a Hong Kong based company and how the DCMA allows Criminal prosecutions rather than Civil liability. The fact that the dotcom was arrested and not merely sued is disturbing.

[tierne5137]

Is there an alternative site for "legal" content and or files you could recommend?

[bcasey25raptor]

@tierne5137 try mediafire

[KiLLaH5FoLKz]

NIce video. hope to hear more of you.!

[vicman1428]

true !!!

[vippatch]

you cool dude , u just tole them what to say to the FBI>

[bssb1979]

It's rare that I'm sitting and watching a youtube video for more than 10 minutes. Good explanation. Looking forward to see more episodes.

[jack99889988]

hmm hes gonna pay 1.5million dollar soon, please go to china to hide buddy. you do not want to make ur family bankrupted and work in jail forever.

[Jerddd2]

smart kid...

[Ceridwen24]

where r your sources for your facts?

[techfreak52]

this is awesome!

[TheTouchscreenKid]

Thanks so much! This helps clear things up a ton! I think this will be a great addition to your channel.

[MrFusion97]

@wonkyfonkfrightwig no, its just your name sound like a guy and you have a pussy. Sad.

[MrFusion97]

@wonkyfonkfrightwig Oh, So you have a pussy but not a dick? Good Job.

[MrFusion97]

@wonkyfonkfrightwig you sound and look like a dickhead...

[FRIKINCRAZYBLACKMAN]

NICEEEEEE

[Anonymousfilipinos]

Very helpful

[princeruben00]

yes follow the megaupload case for us! the american news just tell us the same thing or isnt enough info!

[bsanyal1978]

Nicely executed. Could we have more? Just a query, I don't understand the difference between SOPA, DMCA & PIPA. Could you do an episode on that?

[FriendZoneDotTk]

This is very helpful I like this idea a lot, but do you know what I like better? TerminalTipTuesday >.>

[TheiPhoneTechZone]

I think it's a great idea. great addition to your show.

[MasterRain11]

Good job explaining the "perplexity" of the FBI's allegations and actions, as well as explaining what it is that recent news stories surrounding "SOPA" and "Megaupload" are referring to in regards to "piracy". You are quite right that it is "a bit vague". Good idea using your own content as an "example" (the YouTube Vs. Megaupload "DMCA procedures"). You definitely broke down the various aspects in simple, easily digestible pieces and kept it interesting at the same time.

[arslanbali]

MEGA QUINN

[arslanbali]

keep'em coming 

[funnyent]

Really like these type of videos!

[rethxoth]

Great explanation, you've got yourself another sub ;)

[DrinkHappiness]

quinn i love the new series this reminds me of the facade of beats video which was one of my favorite videos ever

[mymom1234]

A friend uploads his music on (another) filehoster and earns some 100-200€ per month through it, for his hobby nontheless. He doesnt have to pay the bandwith, infact he earns money. Maybe they fear musician getting all the money for themselves.

Instead of arresting the people behind Megaupload they schould look at their system and try to emulate it and earn their money this way.

[whymyty]

GREAT JOB!!!

[JasonYesterday5]

I Never Sit & Wacth Nuthing Thats A Tech Reveiw ...... Or A Bmx Video

.......... IT WAS FUCKING GOOD I LIKE It

[laxman7055]

i like this

[Herihjaltmohr]

This i helpefull :D keep em coming ;)

[user187648237648]

But, it is also important to understand that MPAA/RIAA wanted it down too. I doubt any site that has the same technical practices will go down if they are not a target of big lobbies.

[user187648237648]

You are missing important points. DMCA is not only about deleting content on request.. You have other obligations such as blocking repeat infringers.

What's important to understand in the Mega case is about their technical structure : they hosted a single copy of each file and many different URL to it. When someone would send a complaint they would only delete 1 URL and keep the file for everyone else. That is a breach of the DMCA.

[harrisonc7]

it's interesting keep it going.

[soundtrackgamer]

I agree with lots of this but if you went on tvshack.com (now shut down) a couple of weeks ago, nearly every single film or tv show had a link to megaupload. So I think that it is a far dodgier company than YouTube.

[JacksMacintosh]

The one thing I felt this was missing:

How the hell do you pronounce debacle?

[technocastle69]

i think techxplained would be even more awesome as a podcast! thumbs up if ya agree :p

[DeStinAr0]

this is really helpful :D really love ur vids, this vids kind of reminds me when u were talking about beats XD

[certainsomeone64]

This series is helpful

[cardinalslover05]

You seem like one of those people who thinks he's so smart, which you might be but you show it off in front of people to make them look stupid. Just a guess

[USMCxFirefly]

We, the people. Forgive megaupload,multiupload, fileshare, youtube, twitter, myspace, google, yahoo, and Facebook.

[XenderWindX]

This episode was awesome and really interesting! But could you talk about more then 1 thing, like not just about MegaUpload and DMCA for 12 minutes? Meaning, talk about other news aswell, so it doesn't feel like you're talking about only one thing.

Overall it was great though!

[gev2323]

Thanks this was really informative. Light years away from Mike Mozart's fear mongering video on Megaupload. Actually if you could, could you explain why what he says in his most recent video is just 100% wrong? He claims that the uploaders and downloaders from Megaupload are going to be hunted down by the FBI, fined millions, and then thrown in jail. It seems silly but it seems to be causing a lot of panic. People are talking suicide, fleeing the country, etc. Can you please clear all this up?

[gev2323]

@gev2323 If you haven't seen the video it's at: /watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ

[Agentgamester3]

More videos from you is always a plus!

[twisterJA]

Definetely do more of these

[crazyskunk96]

Very informative and straight to the point, I look forward to the next episode (:

[Lasharan]

Most interesting indeed. Good work on trying to avoid bias as much as possible and staying objective, and providing as many facts as you could.

You've another subscriber. :)

[coddude196]

I like it :)

[xcom2009]

so they can't arrest people who downloaded from there?

[narutopian837]

@xcom2009

If they can prove that you knew what it was you were downloading, then yes they can.

I think.

[xcom2009]

@narutopian837 .....crap

[1978Coraje]

Agree and this was very informative.

[MamboPython]

These new laws that the american government is trying to pass is going to start an internet "war" against the united states. In fact it has already started.

[alcurtis93]

@crisgia no his name is Kim schmitz

[dreamslides]

Not bad :W

[earlbee31]

👍👍👍👍

[teamv8longboards]

lol how does he know the porn site names?

[ChrisoneillART]

@teamv8longboards Because he is just that Snazzy ;)

[CatSojourn]

Your a great speaker good job.

[UglymanUSA]

great video snazzy

[fazzinaw11]

keep going

[Zcow29]

I like it. Keep doing it. I love analytical and informative videos. Great stuff!

[crisgia]

wait. his name is kim dot com? lol

[coolduckey]

you should really do these once a week! i love them.

[milkmanjz3]

10:44 JIZZ IN MY PANTS

[jmwoliver]

I clicked on your video as I always do just expecting Quinns regular videos (which is not average, THERE AMAZING), but anyways I clicked on this one and it blew me away! I loved it! I hope you continue to make this series once a week not once a month!

[cwoolfork]

Hmmmm. You make an interesting argument for why think Megaupload shouldn't have been been shut down, but you contradict yourself when you list the things that Megaupload did that pretty much guaranteed that the site would eventually be shut down! Further more Youtube has several programs in place to try and thwart the illegal upload of copyrighted material that you failed to mention. Because of their business model, Megaupload's days were numbered from the get-go. Sad, but true.

[cwoolfork]

"DMCA, SOPA crap!!!..." EPIC!!! XD

[justintvinhd]

The whole video I was watching that laptop thinking pleasedon't fall.

[FIVBANDMAN]

i like this

[lsutigersrockforeve]

Great job!

[FilmTech101]

definitely keep doing these!

[skaterguy36]

i thought it said "my troll free number"

[iAppViews]

My name is Kassem :P SWAG!

[TheAJRoller]

If you are going to do a second episode I'd love to hear the story of the viacom/youtube debacle.

[YoniTechVids]

Well I hope you enjoyed in-n-out

[Sidattack1]

LOVE IT!!!

[jsorensens2]

Great job! Very informative! Techxplained well! I'm looking forward to the next one! Thanks!

[YoniTechVids]

I think you should keep the series

[PierreValois100]

thumbs up?mf up!hhheheheheey!!

[TurtleHaze]

Props on explaining it so clearly, and it was quite entertaining to watch as well.

[Lakiman52]

Great, keep the series going.

[thebigcheese5359]

Excellent.

[TheInthehizzouse]

informative, clearly explained, skipped the garbage...+1 new subscriber. Keep em coming!

[GetSqueaky]

@TheInthehizzouse UR DUMB D00D. MY VIDEOH ON THIS SO MUCH BETTER IT IS BUT I LYK DO IT IN 50 SECONDFS NOT 12 MINETS DUHH

[MsUKGURL]

clearly explained, but what do you think about claims that the employee's were sending each other tv shows/movies?

[fcangco]

Mom, please shut up! Quinn is explaining!

[anshrestha07]

thumbs up!!!

[dannymack96]

great video Quinn I would love to see more of these!

[SuperSam101011]

Very well xplained ;)

[OfficialGamingVideo]

what about the pirate bay???

[ThoseTechGuys]

@OfficialGamingVideo No servers in the US so it should be safe unless SOPA passes.

[TrunksXV]

Pretty good man! Keep it up! I think however this sets a precendent, even Napster had a lengthy hearing before it bit the dust. Its better to go through the process rather than get shut down with the snap of your fingers. I guess that means we aren't a free society anymore.

Someone else owns my life, it either belongs to god or my neighbors never to me.

[sexysimon301]

Very intriguing

[TheEsotericShadow]

curious how 2011 was the 3rd highest grossing year for the boxoffice ever, yeah piracy has totally been killing hollywood......

[Swampax]

The funny thing is that since torrent etc. emerged, CD and DVD sales have gone up, explosively, because people get a better chance of finding the cool music and the saying "Hey, i like this, so i will support and by buying their CD!".

Before you had no real chance of doing that, and therefore alot of people didn't really get into music the way people do now.

[YoniVids]

Only half a million dollars of copyright infringement

[xBeeNHD]

Cant u talk about SOPA?

[MrJacksjack]

this is great, i love it do it again!

[TheRovaa]

this is the best thing you've ever made!

I knew that mega upload was down, but I didn't know why?

Thanks to you, now I know!

Keep this up & stay snazzy!

:D

[Raikkonus]

love this ! keep this up

[mythias]

Warning, the following is constructive criticism.

I like what you are doing but you are talking a bit fast, repeating much of the same thing, and jumping around a lot in your points (getting details from each all mixed up). Slow down a little, don't jump around on your points, and don't repeat parts of what you are saying so many times (short & sweet) and this will be quite good. Again, I really like that you took the time to put this important message out here. Thumbs Up.

[ThoseTechGuys]

@FD87 trdd.us(slash)mu

[iphomac]

I like that new series a lot !!! Keep doing Videos like that ;)

[TheLeandroemile]

vary good video i have legal files on megaupload and i have an accont

[denidude1]

we in bulgaria are the number 1 in piracy

[hughfraserlarne]

Really liked it, keep it coming, prefer this to all your headphone reviews

[tambo27]

Interesting...

[tiduswalid]

from Morocco very very good

[philtrapp]

Such a great video. Hope to see more!

[AndroidHackr]

Very good! Keep itt up

[xxT1M0xx]

Great Video man! Hope to see more.

[MrPyroguy108]

i like this and i enjoyt your rants

[gpolenik]

no worries... anonymous has just taken down a bunch of copyright websites... FUCK YEAH!

[mrcuccuou]

gud work quinn.. in this day and age of the millennium, information is king... and right now all media is served by the same corporation except internet.// except internet..

[idolovemyiphone]

Keep them coming...

[daweil94]

Keep the series, very informative ;)

[LeeTheTaekwondoBoy]

Very good and resourceful techxplained quinn, keep it up man!

[AylaNewYork]

Great video!

[bbjgarcia]

I love your videos Quinn. I seriously bought my first IPhone because of you. Keep up the good work man.

[earthquakeroats]

snazzy... now we know >:(

[tsakonass]

napravlenie

[TiMo3mtb1]

Keep up the good work

[airconaaron]

The weird thing is, since 2009. MEGAUPLOAD has not been accessible from Hong Kong.

[EPICSKATENYC]

i backgrounded this as i checked my emails and surfed the web. great information thanks dude

[raulp123]

As long as they font touch rapidshare I'm good. :D

[kevinminwooyi]

awesome series! post it more often!

[rippedification]

make more of this series :)

[192venom]

This is awesome, please do more videos like this. And I agree with every word you said lol

[austinwang302]

i agree with you, megaupload is not liable for any of these, its the uploaders that are.

[madmax2069]

wasn't the servers in US. but regardless of what those servers contained (porn or not) its still the users that was uploading the content to them, not the owners. the owners can not be held liable for what the users upload to the service. This is basically sending a message to anyone with a website that allows users to post content, or links (a forum) in that they can hold the owners liable for the content that users are uploading and these users can get away scott free. Its downright retarded.

[madmax2069]

@madmax2069 and like you said if these users mask the file name and alter the files size and make them multi part rar or zip files how are they to know what these files contain, the same can be said about video, users can mask the file name, reverse the video output and so forth. it makes it hard to weed out the illegal stuff when you have so much of it being uploaded.

[srivasvivaz]

This video is awesome man! Btw Quinn,does your number work if I call from india?

[mybrown830]

Well there is still fileserve, filejungle, and filesonic and much more. 

[raycroft39]

Cool , make more vids

[Rat5]

megaupload is back 109.236.83.66/

[tongmizu]

hong kong internet rip

[dreamslides]

@tongmizu true true

[sadib100]

You make a good argument. YouTube should also be shut down.