Megaupload sharing site shut down

[Shar]

nooooooooo megavideo, that's the third site I used to go on a lot that has been shut down
This is absolutely ridiculous

[Eric]

Megaupload has been banned from my country last year. I was so pissed and now it's shut down. So R.I.P

[xxMATTGxx]

Fileserve is on the brink of going.

Fileserve closes reward program, terminates accounts

http://www.neowin.net/news/fileserve...nates-accounts

[HotelUser]

Filesonic suspended uploads. In my opinion Rapidshare is safe though and that's the one I use from time to time when I'm given an account by a frield.

Megaupload's CEO was someone called Swizz Beatz, and to make it worse the founder had been in a lot of legal trouble in the past. It's not surprising to see them stumble first. Shocking though, at one point they were the 13th most visited website.

[xxMATTGxx]

Filesonic suspended uploads. In my opinion Rapidshare is safe though and that's the one I use from time to time when I'm given an account by a frield.

Megaupload's CEO was someone called Swizz Beatz, and to make it worse the founder had been in a lot of legal trouble in the past. It's not surprising to see them stumble first. Shocking though, at one point they were the 13th most visited website.

They didn't suspend uploads, they suspended filesharing. You can upload but you can't say give links out, you can only download files that you have personally uploaded and have access to the account I believe.

[HotelUser]

They didn't suspend uploads, they suspended filesharing. You can upload but you can't say give links out, you can only download files that you have personally uploaded and have access to the account I believe.

Correct and doesn't this completely nullify any functionality of utilizing Filesonic in order to distribute copyrighted material?

[xxMATTGxx]

Correct and doesn't this completely nullify any functionality of utilizing Filesonic in order to distribute copyrighted material?

Probably unless people will trust each other in using an account they can access and download the files from but then there is a risk of them changing passwords, deleting files etc. They are saving themselves either way.

[HotelUser]

Probably unless people will trust each other in using an account they can access and download the files from but then there is a risk of them changing passwords, deleting files etc. They are saving themselves either way.

Indeed, torrents are looking good at the moment.

[Recursion]

Indeed, torrents are looking good at the moment.

USENET moreso.

[Jordy]

Why's Anonymous constantly weigh in like some sort of geek-police paramilitary? They seem to concern themselves with everything and although all computer nerds sit at home thinking they're heroes they're far from it. They temporarily bring down a website because they dislike it by overloading it with a botnet. It's neither skilful, interesting or useful.