MegaUpload Shut down By The Feds

[Azdgari]

Agreed. Internet, let's unite. There is no way we can back down now. We're fighting for our freedoms here. We will NEVER give those up no matter the cost.

Not gonna lie, my first reaction to this was #firstworldproblems =P

[KentuckyWildcat]

Mine may not be the most popular opinion here, but I think people are vastly overreacting. Yes, internet censorship, as proposed by SOPA would be bad, but the people who are reacting by going completely pro-piracy bother me too. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Nobody's freedom is being threatened by shutting down a site that existed almost solely as a piracy outlet and giving the operaters a chance in court. Also, the defense that they were simply a file hosting site will be much harder to contest if the reports are true that they were paying their more frequent uploaders ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/megaupload-shut-down-by-feds-seven-charged-four-arrested.ars).

I just don't understand why almost everyone expects to get free music and movies like it's their right. The people who create such entertainment make a living off of it just like any other business people.

[Panda-chan]

Agreed. Internet, let's unite. There is no way we can back down now. We're fighting for our freedoms here. We will NEVER give those up no matter the cost.

Not gonna lie, my first reaction to this was #firstworldproblems =P

[Arani]

ugh, the feds shut down Megavideo along with Megaupload. I didn't figure that out until just now, Megavideo is where I watched EVERYTHING 0_o T_T I seriously hate the feds right now. >_<

[SophieCub]

Yes, I was going to watch something on megavideo yesterday and there where no links to it. Gutted. D: This needs to stop! >.<

[Noah]

Just thought I'd let you guys know, there are some fake MegaUpload websites that are scamming real users out of their passwords. Be careful not to visit these.

[SophieCub]

Do you think Megavideo and Megaupload will come back for good?

[Arani]

And not just that, but a lot of Websites are starting to freak out because of this. All of the websites that I used to watch my T.V. shows on are removing all of their videos and such out of pure fear. And Youtube is going on a show-removing war path. in a day many shows that I used to watch on their got deleted and accounts suspended, just like that. >_< it's very frustrating. Now I gotta buy all these T.V. shows and movies because I don't have a T.V. and Netflix doesn't have half of the stuff I used to watch! >=(

[SnowyCheetah]

In all fairness, the stuff that's getting deleted has been/is illegally hosted and provided. Just sayin'... we've been enjoying an illegal bounty of free s***.

[Jiirani]

^ Exactly. It's bad megavideo's down but it was never right in the first place. We were all offenders for watching stuff without paying. But, there had never really been proper consequences before now, so it's sort of the governments fault too for being so slack and letting everyone get away with this for so long. There wouldn't be such an outrage if the Feds had managed everything a little bit better from the beginning, or bit by bit, rather than going in and demanding everything be taken down at once.

Not that I'm happy that there will be things I cannot watch anymore because I live in the UK and some of my favorite shows don't run here, but all good things come to an end. And I doubt much else will be done tbh.