Megaupload file-sharing site shut down YOUTUBE NEXT??

Just minutes after the U.S. Department of Justice repossessed the domains of Megaupload, Megavideo, Megaporn and a collection of other popular filesharing sites, the hacker collective Anonymous got to work on a few takedowns of its own.

On Thursday afternoon, Anonymous claimed credit for cyberattacks that knocked offline the websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, Recording Industry of America, Motion Picture Association of America and Universal Music. The so-called denial of service attacks that overwhelmed those sites with junk traffic came less than an hour after the Justice Department announced the takedown of the Mega sites, along with the arrest of former hacker and Mega founder Kim Dotcom and six others, who are being indicted on charges of copyright infringement and money laundering.

"One thing is certain: EXPECT US!," wrote the Anonymous-linked Anonops Twitter feed Thursday just after the Mega raid, adding a hashtag for Megaupload.


Megaupload site shut down may be old news but what people don't realise is that they now have their eyes on youtube!!!

Megaupload has gone the way of napster in the past and has been taken down due to a successful copyright claim against them.

Most interesting, however, is UMG's second line of defense. Mr. Klaus's letter takes exception to the demand for copyright proof from YouTube. The paragraph in question is too good to quote piecemeal:

Second, your letter could be read to suggest that UMG's rights to use the YouTube "Content Management System" with respect to certain user-posted videos are limited to instances in which UMG asserts a claim that a user-posted video contains material that infringes a UMG copyright. As you know, UMG's rights in this regard are not limited to copyright infringement, as set forth more completely in the March 31, 2009 Video License Agreement for UGC Video Service providers, including without limitation in Paragraphs 1(b) and 1(g) thereof.

So, let's break that down a little. Wading through the legalese, it looks as though UMG is citing this Video License Agreement to claim that it has the right to take down video content that it doesn't own. Exactly what grounds UMG thinks it does need, however, remain unclear. What does seem clear is UMG's only possible reason to remove the Megaupload video is simply that they don't like it. So, in effect, UMG is claiming that this nebulous agreement with YouTube allows it to remove YouTube content for any reason at all.

The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large.

"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime," said a statement posted on its website.

The FBI website was intermittently unavailable on Thursday evening due to what officials said was being "treated as a malicious act".

The hackers' group Anonymous said it was carrying out the attacks.

The Motion Picture Association of America's website also suffered disruption.
Other fileservers have followed suit probably scared that someone could put copyright stuff on their servers.

The charges included, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.

A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized.

The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m (£32m) in assets had been seized.

It claimed that the accused had pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works.

"The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content, and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.

I have been in the warez scene in the past and I am telling you now nothing will change. They will just find newer and improved ways of staying under the radar.

SOPA looks like the final nail in the coffin for file sharing on-line. I know I have said it was a good act. But now it is obvious the Government are cracking down.

Bootlegging has been around for years. People having been committing copyright theft by copying their favourite tv shows on vhs recorders and lately hard drive recorders.

MEGAUPLOAD IS DOWN!! Due to S.O.P.A Anonymous Operation Blackout anonymous banned closed websites copyright SOPA PIPA USA Government Sons of War Two Steps from Hell Nemesis P.I.P.A

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[sXeblues]

I think you're right when you say the focus should be on these people making tons of bank on illegal piracy and such... I don't think SOPA and these things are any real way to quell it though. As you say it will only result in giving them leeway to go to asinine lengths to screw the rest of us. Don't put it past the states to try to extradite citizens in the UK and abroad if they gain enough power. It'll be an all-out digital world war.

[Aspergianstar2009]

@sXeblues the states will not be able to extrodite anyone as the law is changing here due to an Aspie called Gary who hacked into systems in other countries

[jesserosas88]

@Aspergianstar2009 I do not intend to sound rude but your girlfriend or sister looks bored in the background :-) by the way great info.

[snowmanA13]

hope they dont take down youtube. youtube is where you could watch 5min videos that are awesome or funny or even to teach you how to use other equipment

[GekapteKorrel]

I actually make copies of my DVD's using DVDShrink to get rid of the tons of crap which you are FORCED to watch (can't skip) before you actually get to see the movie itself. Nowadays, this crap stuff is almost longer than the movie itself.

[Hi675445]

it take my about 5 or 6 minuets to download a 600 mb iso of lunix

[Hi675445]

it like they don't give u recovery disk out for free with your pc i think there should i starting to understand why people use liunex

[Hi675445]

i herd on click in the uk formate shifting is legal now between things like ipods and cd but puting them online is still illegal

[Hi675445]

i was never a fan of torrent tho i never see the point why not download for sites

[Hi675445]

i will miss it i used it lololol for non copyrite stuff

[yazzashah]

girl walks in room at @7.11

[AlkaiserNeo]

As long as they leave Demonoid, ExtraTorrent, and BTJunkie in tact, they can do what ever they hell they want.