Megaupload shut down.

[SPK1983]

One day after an extensive Internet blackout in protest of two pending anti-piracy bills, the Justice Department on Thursday announced that it had charged the owners of Megaupload with online copyright infringement.

Seven people and two corporations—Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited—were indicted by a New York grand jury on Jan. 5 and charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering, and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement. If convicted, those involved face up to 50 years in prison on all charges.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399105,00.asp

Interesting development here me thinks...servers confirmed to be offline.

[jeevdude199]

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[sliderz1]

thing start!

[Swisha]

Anonymous strikes back!

Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline



Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today's federal bust of Megaupload riled 'em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov has left it completely dead.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com is reporting the department's site as universally nuked, and an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account is boasting success. This is almost certainly the result of a quickly-assembled DDoS attack—and easily the widest in scope we've seen in some time. If you had any doubts Anonymous is still a hacker wrecking ball, doubt no more. The combination of the hacking nebula's SOPA animosity combined with today's sudden Megaupload news has made the group bubble over—hundreds upon hundreds of Anon operatives are in a plotting frenzy, chatting about which site will go down next.

Update: Anonymous says they've also knocked off the RIAA's site—looks down for us at the moment as well.

Update 2: Universal Music Group has also fallen off an e-cliff.

Update 3: Goodbye for now, MPAA.org.

Update 4: Affected sites are bouncing in and out of life, and are at the very least super slow to load. Anon agents are currently trying to coordinate their DDoS attacks in the same direction via IRC.

Update 5: The US Copyright Office joins the list.

Gizmodo

[DTAC]

All still down, just not connecting at all. Good job.

[SPK1983]

My main concern to Anon's retaliation, is that the powers that be will use that as a reason to get legislation like SOPA to be passed, so that way they can neutralise these 'acts of terror'...

[shaneelal]

Guess it has started. Too bad for all the people who use the service for legitimate purposes.

[mediahouse]

noooooooooooooo

hat sucks megavideo also shut down , dam i watch all my movies there

[sharkman121]

[insert "ohnoess" gif here]

[VexXx Dogg]

wooooogoooood.
anon bad like crab

[S_2NR]

Real madness.
I get all my stuff for my phone there since developers mainly use this to distribute their roms. Xda in a panic right now.

[TriP]

Megaupload Users 1Billion per day...4 % of the internet they control..

RIP Megaupload (2005-2012)..!!!!!!!

[Trini Hookah]

Anon posted on one of their page they just took down fbi.gov for a bit..

[guest1]

.....

[CFSI]

Wonder which tools they used this time for the DDos attacks. LOIC and RefRef cud still do the job. Would be cool if they unleashed something new.

[SPK1983]

Wonder which tools they used this time for the DDos attacks. LOIC and RefRef cud still do the job. Would be cool if they unleashed something new.

According to the tweets, seemed like it was LOIC.

[redmanjp]

http://109.236.83.66/

[ворвзаконе]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=_T ... feature=iv

[SmokeyGTi]

...bad like crab indeed!

[Bizzare]

Megaupload Users 1Billion per day...4 % of the internet they control.

25 billion ppl use the internet??

[Apollo Trinidad]

I predict a loss for apple........no more jailbreaking :/ and I highly doubt anyone gonna buy from tht app store......lol



WW3 Ftw!!

[jeevdude199]

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/megau ... 41977.html

[jm3]

this is good anonymous is doing what really has to be done the internet is an open entity for all it it should not be controlled by the Americans, they need to learn they are not the owners of everything and WE WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED BY THEM

[Habit7]

I think its good, people need to start paying for others hard work.

[adriano7910]

I think its good, people need to start paying for others hard work.

megauploads was nvr intended to be a piracy hosting site. it was just for file upload ad transfer. You go blame face book cause a man copy and paste a poem from Shakespeare on he gyal wall?

[Habit7]

Well for the man who selling "how to erase all evidence" murder kits to say, hey it all depends on how you use it, he too would have bear some responsibility if his produce is repeatedly use in the committing of a crime.

Though Megaupload not wrong in and of itself, after a production house spends $100mil creating a movie, they shouldn't sit idly by why they hosts 75mins of the movie for free and the rest if you take premium membership. We have to protect the artists because we might end up having none.

BTW Shakespeare is free source now as it is +400 years old

[16 cycles]

more hats than feds......

someone may take an axe to the interwebz cable and catapult us back into the dark ages ....

[Bizzare]

my files on megaupload still linking properly

[sharkman121]

I think its good, people need to start paying for others hard work.

megauploads was nvr intended to be a piracy hosting site. it was just for file upload ad transfer. You go blame face book cause a man copy and paste a poem from Shakespeare on he gyal wall? :agrue:

[stev]

SOPA Is Dead: Smith Pulls Bill

Lamar Smith, the chief sponsor of SOPA, said on Friday that he is pulling the bill “until there is wider agreement on a solution.”

“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” Smith (R-Texas) said. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products.”

Smith also released the following statement on Friday:

“We need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products. “The problem of online piracy is too big to ignore. American intellectual property industries provide 19 million high-paying jobs and account for more than 60% of U.S. exports. The theft of America’s intellectual property costs the U.S. economy more than $100 billion annually and results in the loss of thousands of American jobs. Congress cannot stand by and do nothing while American innovators and job creators are under attack.”

“The online theft of American intellectual property is no different than the theft of products from a store. It is illegal and the law should be enforced both in the store and online.

“The Committee will continue work with copyright owners, Internet companies, financial institutions to develop proposals that combat online piracy and protect America’s intellectual property. We welcome input from all organizations and individuals who have an honest difference of opinion about how best to address this widespread problem. The Committee remains committed to finding a solution to the problem of online piracy that protects American intellectual property and innovation.”

The move comes after widespread protest on the Internet on Wednesday by Wikipedia, Reddit and others. The sites signaled their displeasure with the bill by going dark. That day, several Congressmen dropped their support for SOPA and its Senate counterpart, PIPA. The latter bill has also been taken off the table for now.

“In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT IP Act,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in a statement Friday morning.

Smith’s stance comes just two days after he told The Wall Street Journal that he didn’t plan to back down on SOPA, telling the newspaper he expected to “move forward” with the bill in February.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is- ... ulls-bill/