Megaupload takedown

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    I GOT ALL MY ANIME AND GAMES FROM THAT SITE
     
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    I wonder how they plan to take out dropbox
     
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    What the buck happened to Megaupload?

    It seems that half of downloadable content on the internet is gone. What happened?
     
    #23 Mr. Serious, Feb 22, 2012
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    ACTA, that all I have to say
     
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    Actually, it wasn't SOPA or ACTA. They were racketeering; basically laundering money from premium members while threatening them if they didn't.

    Megaupload brought it upon themselves.
     
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    What? Megaupload being taken down had nothing to do with ACTA, the FBI had been after it for years. Megaupload was been taken down without any help from SOPA, PIPA or ACTA, since it was clearly a largely illegal operation. The FBI just needed the legal weight to shut it down, which they eventually got.
     
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    Just read the post, and I am glad I wasn't one of the "premium members". I had always thought that was just a ripoff in the first place. Pay money so you can download content faster? Can't you just have patience? Apparently, alot of people missing this virtue helped with the shutdown with this website.

    But worse than the members are the people who run the website. Shame on them.
     
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    Those guys are going away for life for approx. 1000000 copyright violations, a LOT of racketeering, and approx. 500,000 cases of Money Laundering.

    Oh I'd love to see the price of those CP Violations...
     
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    yeah, the founders just got bail from prison a few days ago, if I read the news correctly. Racketeering, massive copyright violations, and all sorts of illegal stuff (and I wouldn't blame the premium members, as they were hardly notified about any sort of extortion or laundering)
     
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    they killed for im guessing maybe stealin some mobey fro premium folks but what i heard was.the simple fact that they seized it because. we.. errrm umm you internet
    pirates kept pisting copyrighted stuff and sharing it so i.. errr they could download music *kicks a stack of dvds behind the couch that look like bootlegs* i have no idea about that stuff myself lol.no but seriously i heard it was about
    someponies kept pirating stuff but i wasnt really keeping up
     
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    Uh...why was this even revived?
     
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