Posted on 01/19/2012 10:04:17 PM PST by Sprite518
Seven executives charged as filesharing site shut down over accusations they cheated copyright holders out of $500m
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Laws? We don’ neeed no steeenkin’ laws.
Welcome to the Obamanation!
Enjoy your stay... (and be ready to flee at a minute's notice)
AFTER they shut the DNS down. Shoot first, ask questions later I guess...
So then we dont need to obsess with Congress’s laws since they are just pieces of paper anyway ? That’s what it seems like since the govt is trying to operate independently of them. And it seems like they always could, for decades now.
I feel so much safer knowing that they are trying to put a hapless Slovak graphic designer in prison for 20 years.
Exactly.. This only makes the elite in Hollywood happy.
Heil Obama!!! ANONYMOUS is ripping them a new one. Bleeping fascists...
It works like this: Users upload files to the host and then post links to the files on online forums and bulletin boards catering to the subject matter being uploaded. Copyright holders and porn fighters (claiming to be copyright holders) scour the boards and report files which are then removed by the file host. In practice, links are valid from hours to weeks before the files are removed. But the dead links are replaced by repeated uploads and uploads to multiple servers at once.
The file sharing sites offer limited free service with paying customers able to up and download larger files much faster.
Supposedly, by honoring copyright removals basically on demand, the file hosts were considered safe from legal action. The FBI has apparently decided to make Megaupload a test case. The FBI’s modus operandi is to hold and harass website operator for several years until obtaining guilty plea bargains and then shutting the rest down with a second wave of several more arrests and the chilling effect to close the rest without ever going to trial.
Essentially identical to Megaupload are ALL the file sharing operations:
(With cheap terabyte storage now available, this list of sites just scratches the surface.)
1fichier.com
1filesharing.com
2shared.com
4filehosting.com
4shared.com
Adrive.com
Anonym-filehosting.co.cc
Aobox.net
Axfile.com
Badongo.com
Bearshare.com
BigFilebox.com
Bighugefile.com
Bigupload.com
Blubster.com
BooMP3.com
Box.net
BOXSTr.com
Depositfiles.com
DivShare.com
Driveway.com
Dropbox.com
Dropsend.com
Dushare.com
Easy-Share.com
Egnyte.com
Enterupload.com
Esnips.com
Ewedrive.com
Exabyte.com
Exaroom.com
Fileadded.com
Filecargo.com
FileDEN.com
Filedropper.com
Filefactory.com
Filefront.com
Filehat.com
FileHo.com
Filejumbo.com
FileNanny.com
FilePanda.com
Filesanywhere.com
Filesavr.com
Fileserve.com
Filesonic.com
Filesovermiles.com
Files2u.com
Filexoom.com
Flypicture.com
Freakshare.net
Freefilehosting.net
Freefilehostingnow.com
Ge.tt
Getcloudapp.com
GigaSize.com
Glumbouploads.com
Hotfile.com
Hulkshare.com
I2drive.com
In.solit.us
Jigsawshare.com
Jumbodir.com
Keepandshare.com
Letitbit.com
Letscrate.com
Limelynx.com
Localhostr.com
Mailbigfile.com
Massmirror.com
Mediafire.com
MediaMax.com
Megashare.com
Metahyper.com
Midupload.com
Minus.com
Missupload.com
Mlfat4arab.com
Mofile.com
Multiupload.com
MyDataBus.com
MyFabrik.com
Myfile.in.th
Myfilehost.com
Myfreefilehosting.com
OneDump.com
Pando.com
Pipebytes.com
QuickSharing.com
Rapidshare.com
Sendoid.com
Senduit.com
Sendspace.com
Sendthisfile.com
Sharebee.com
Sharenload.com
Share-online.biz
Sharefile.com
Sharingmatrix.com
Sharingzone.net (claims to host 180 BILLION files alone)
Slingfile.com
Snapdrive.net
Soundcloud.com
Streamfile.com
Supload.com
TagAndFile.com
Temp-share.com
Turbobit.com
Turboupload.com
Upfordown.com
Ugotfile.com
Ulozto.net
Uploadbox.com
Uploaded.to
Uploadhere.com
Uploading.com
Uploadking.com
Uploadline.com
Uploadmb.com
Upshare.me
Usershare.net
Webcargo.net
Webfilehost.com
Wikisend.com
Wikiupload.com
Woofiles.com
Xdrive.com
Yousendit.com
Ziddu.com
Zippyshare.com
Zomgupload.com
zShare.com
zUpload.com
BTW, I recommend Turbobit. The servers are in Russia, out of reach of DMCA complaints which they seem to ignore.
Most people do some combination of regular and side business.
Protest: Just stop going to their bleeping movies. Don’t buy ANY legitimate product. Make copyrights worthless to the big corps. Cost them half a trillion. Occupy Hollywood and Tea Party them. They are leftist scum anyway.
And watch PIRATE NFL. After the way they treated Rush & Tebow... More leftist scum.
FBI will not be able to go every where. Places like China, Russia, etc... will not allow it. So I really don’t think it’s going to do much. Plus there are too many people and the FBI does not even have the resources to do that.
For everyone they shut down 10 more will pop up.
MegaUpload servers were located in Hong Kong.
They do not have to stop the servers.
With the MegaUpload precedent, the credit card companies will soon stop honoring their charges.
Pretty soon, you’ll need the Mark of the Beast Seal of Approval to do anything. And it will look like Mickey Mouse.
MegaUpload servers were located in Hong Kong.
They do not have to stop the servers.
With the MegaUpload precedent, the credit card companies will soon stop honoring their charges.
Pretty soon, you’ll need the Mark of the Beast Seal of Approval to do anything. And it will look like Mickey Mouse.
What would the FBI say if you as an average American small business in Podunk Iowa had a theft of copyright issue and wanted the thief charged?
I’ll tell you what they would say, “go hire an attorney and sue in civil court, it’s not our problem”. But there is a double standard for the mega donors from Hollywood. For them the taxpayers are put on the hook to pay for the FBI to enforce their copyright claims on the other side of the world. They are special indeed.
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