Megaupload sharing site shut down

[Neversoft]

Nooooooooooooooo! One of my uploads on Megaupload was nearing 2,000 downloads. I was going to have a party.

[Recursion]

not sure if ppl heard about this but a tone of artists got together to make this song to support megaupload and sopa apparently contacted youtube telling them they must take it down because it violated copyright and the scary thing is it actually didn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzUuO151jLk


this video explains a lot

Universal have a contract with YouTube effectively saying they can pull videos down without even owning the copyright :/

[GommeInc]

I remember the days when YouTube was an amazing website. The last 4 years have seen it drop in amazing material, most of which contained copyrighted material but was re-edited to have a different meaning altogether - most of the videos even gave credit to the owners of the copyright, trademark or material which was very noble :/

[J0SH]

I remember the days when YouTube was an amazing website. The last 4 years have seen it drop in amazing material, most of which contained copyrighted material but was re-edited to have a different meaning altogether - most of the videos even gave credit to the owners of the copyright, trademark or material which was very noble :/

I know right, I had some amazing ripped content with 14k subscribers then they closed my account

[ben]

Icefilms have confirmed they're going nowhere. They're just going to use a different provider

And how many films/tv shows have no sources now as they were hosted on megaupload

[Jahova]

Court case will be interesting.

[Chippiewill]

I just lost a load of backups. I still have my primary files, and have them uploaded to other file sharing sites, but it still sucks ass. Cloud storage is just going to go down the drain, now.

Apparently a lot of people are planning to take the RIAA to small claims court over this as it forces them to use an employee not a lawyer.

[Andii]

dont really use it anyway lol but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO if they start shutting down other sites

[efq]

I hope all users against it join in the DDoS attacks.

They'd stand no chance.

[FiftyCal]

Welcome to America people.