S7*
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
Seems like they are based in Hong Kong. As for their servers..
US DoJ Wrote:... law enforcement also executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seized approximately $50 million in assets and targeted sites where Megaupload has servers in Ashburn, Va., Washington, D.C., the Netherlands and Canada. In addition, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.
And this is interesting.. I wonder if this is real though...
Neowin Wrote:Update 19: Proof of Mega group paying for content is coming out in the form of email leaks:
On or about February 5, 2007, VAN DER KOLK sent an e-mail to ORTMANN entitled “reward payments”. Attached to the e-mail was a text file listing the following proposed reward amounts, the Megaupload.com username, and the content they uploaded:
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] 10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a few small hershey kisses movies, some software with key generators (warez)
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] 5845 files in his account, mainly Vietnamese content
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] Popular DVD rips
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] Some older DVD rips + unknown (Italian serries?) rar files
1500 USD [USERNAME DELETED] known paid user (vietnamese content)
(This post was last modified: 20/01/2012 06:26 AM by S7*.)
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Mr. Shizzy
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
Ahhhhh man this is chitty news... Never thought I would see the day..
I wonder once a compromise is reached if MU will be back? And if so - will it ever be the same?
Also, what happens to the people with paid premium accounts? refunds?
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Syfe
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
anybody feel like boycotting E3? (Blame the ESA or whatever controls E3 for supporting SOPA)
they should get refunds... but i doubt its going to happen.
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whjms
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
(20/01/2012 04:37 PM)Syfe Wrote: anybody feel like boycotting E3? (Blame the ESA or whatever controls E3 for supporting SOPA)
they should get refunds... but i doubt its going to happen.
Well, unless you're actually part of the game industry, it'll be tough to even get in.
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ZiNgA BuRgA
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
(20/01/2012 04:10 PM)Mr. Shizzy Wrote: Ahhhhh man this is chitty news... Never thought I would see the day..
I wonder once a compromise is reached if MU will be back? And if so - will it ever be the same?
Also, what happens to the people with paid premium accounts? refunds?
Refunds are extremely unlikely.
Not that the owners actually can do anything anyway, from a prison cell.
Knowingly paying for copyright material is relatively serious, if true.
Though I wonder what sort of process was gone through here, and what laws are being applied. DMCA only applies in the US (though copyright, of course, applies worldwide).
(This post was last modified: 20/01/2012 05:37 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
the ESA already broke, don't have to boycott e3 this year, but if the gov took down megaupload, before SOPA and PIPA, well they could act without it anyways, just like napster was taken down awhile back, there'll always be ways to get around this poo poo though,
i also hate this country very much right about now
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RE: MegaUpload Shut Down
(09/06/2011 06:25 AM)S7* Wrote: Spambots are strange, mysterious creatures.
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