Topic: Megaupload was shuttered!!!

[anatolibugar]

One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shuttered Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.

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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1

[Samker]

WOW  

This is beginning of war with SOPA and PIPA, more info's: http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,7390.0.html


Here is official statement from USA's "Department of Justice": http://www.stopfraud.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html

"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime."

Anatolibugar, thanks for info's!  

[Samker]

"American prosecutors have warned that data from users of file-sharing site Megaupload could be deleted from host servers within days."

Source: http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16159171


Related: http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,7397.0.html

[Samker]

After January's shutdown of MegaUpload, I was looking for "substitute" and discover another, even better service - "MINUS". 

More info's: http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,7458.0.html