MegaUpload Shut down By The Feds

[Panda-chan]

[quote="Woeler1"][quote="Amanda"][quote="Woeler1"]Tango down copyright.gov
Hadopi.fr
Fbi.gov[/quote]
Awsnap. Confirmed: Anonymous is amazing.

Guys, SOPA isn't dead yet. Don't let your guard down so fast: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol ... nents.html[/quote]
The US can prepare itself for the night. This is war. Largest anonymous DDoS attack ever confirmed. OpMegaupload.

Anyway I'm going to sleep. If you want to keep updated follow @YourAnoNews on twitter.[/quote]
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.


EDIT: Oh my God, Anonymous has broken the internet lol: http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-un ... -sopa-235/

[SnowyCheetah]

^ holy frak! O___O The Anonymous are more powerful than I thought...

[WildSimba]

Yes. It really scares me that they were able to shut down 2 government sites...

[DGFone]

[quote="Woeler1"]Tango down copyright.gov
Hadopi.fr
Fbi.gov[/quote]

All three loaded. Anonymous may be powerful, but these guys are better. ^And for you guys who think it's scary... do your own research and go to the websites. If they load, they are working...

And as much as I hate SOPA and the copyright office (attack them all you want) I don't think that going after the FBI is a good idea. The FBI has bigger problems to worry about than copyrights.

It's the copyright office that wants SOPA. The FBI couldn't care less.

[LightmaЯe]

Its back.

[SnowyCheetah]

Sort of. The site doesn't really load, but I am not surprised it is popping up elsewhere.

[Azdgari]

[quote="Amanda"]
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.

[/quote]
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]

[quote="Azdgari"][quote="Amanda"]
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.

[/quote]
Not gonna lie, my first reaction to this was #firstworldproblems =P[/quote]

[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. >_<