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FBI closes MegaUpload

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/techn ... .html?_r=1

http://gizmodo.com/5877612/feds-kill-megaupload

So no more MegaUpload. MediaFire and RapidShare next?
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hmm..thats the one I used too, guess all my files are gone? I can't get the site to come up. Thats crap. They should have let us know it was gonna happen with an email or something
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http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-un ... -sopa-235/

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finglemaster wrote:http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-un ... -sopa-235/

Anonymous hit back hard
fuck yeah.
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Maybe it's like when the FBI "shut down" this site?
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haha, gutted.
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Emil wrote:Maybe it's like when the FBI "shut down" this site?
nah I think that was a joke, this one if for real
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Rapidshare is Swiss. You can't touch Swiss things.
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the dick-swinging Americans will try.
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It is a shame. MegaUpload was used for a lot more legal reasons than illegal.
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Jake wrote:Rapidshare is Swiss. You can't touch Swiss things.
Wasn't megaupload hosted on Chinese servers ? I thought it'd be harder for them to be shut down by americans.... :confusion:
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Americans can do whatever the fuck they want, because they're American.
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I used Megavideo a lot so I'm kind of disappointed that it got shut down. What's next?!
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Ardi41 wrote:Image
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Dammit, I was just getting to like this internets thing.
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More detailed reasoning behind this:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... 0-17-50-00
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Captcha on Megaupload was teh LULZ!

Click to view the fullsize image.http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/upload ... nwomen.jpg[/imgwidth]

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SumGeek wrote:I used Megavideo a lot so I'm kind of disappointed that it got shut down. What's next?!
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I think TNS would likely be fucked if SOPA came into play.
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