Well, this sucks.

[drenrin2120]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/

[Archem]

So the people who ran the site uploaded the copyrighted material and sold it for profit?! The bastards!

...Oh, wait, it was free and users uploaded it. Well then.

[drenrin2120]

So wait, if I'm reading correctly, they're charging these people because they owned a website where the users uploaded copyrighted material? Who the **** comes up with these goddamn laws. Rgdfsgngnuiogneroiugnetiuonh340tergwd I thought SOPA and PIPA were going to give them these powers? Meaning, they weren't able to do **** like that as of now. I don't know, this is very frustrating. Megaupload was the best. Now I have to find another site to back up all my **** on. What the ****.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Rgdfsgngnuiogneroiugnetiuonh340tergwd

THIS.


Also, its rather unfortunate that article is on fox news...

[Felix-0]

was just about to post this. Yea... sad news indeed. this is getting out of hand.

[Archem]

I thought SOPA and PIPA were going to give them these powers?

Sort of. SOPA and PIPA were going to make it a criminal act to do so at all, and would allow immediate, due process-free shutdown of any offending sites. The old "guilty until proven innocent". This is an FBI operation related to continued piracy, with actions taken now that they have enough public interest/evidence to file criminal charges. While it's still bullshit, it's at least done the right way.

[drenrin2120]

Also, its rather unfortunate that article is on fox news...

Blame google.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Megaupload AND megavideo.

I cried a little TBH.

In other happy news

RESIDENT EVIL 6 ANNOUNCED

[Alex]

I have to say... even if not active at all (but I keep reading what's going on in here, I swear!), I was at just one step from posting about this as a news on the homepage. But precisely because I'm no more an active member, I thought it was better not to and let current staff to decide if they want to do anything similar.

To me, doing this takedown the day after the"black day" against SOPA and PIPA is just so stupid...

Anonymous is already acting heavily, following them on twitter they're taking down site after site (from various .gov ones to major's).
We're talking about the 13th most visited site of the Internet, generating 5% of it's entire traffic.

World is world, not a US colony. I'm afraid FBI is trying to hit too high this time.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Yeah anonymous is really trying to cover this, but really, more people need to be aware of what's going on. Sadly most people I know don't give.

[Alex]

I think they will. Tomorrow it will be a hot news in many many many places where now is still night time.
Anonymous started, other may follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2WqU-HvyUI

It will be interesting to see how this will evolve

[MissingName]

The internet will be... interesting when SOPA passes (I have little doubt it will).  Control the internet for great justice, komradie!

As far as megaupload, yeah it's bullshit.  But the FBI had been investigating for close to two years.

[SaiKar]

It may have been slightly before your times, but the same thing happened to Napster back in the late 90s. It was declared largely a platform of sharing illegal material and sued. It managed to linger on for a few more years under heavy law persecution before fading away for good.

So this is nothing particularly new and has nothing to do with SOPA/PIPA.

Frustrating, but the internet adapts.

[Alex]

Agree.
Curious how they seem to never learn: the takedown of napster was the first step to what we see now.
Even assuming they'll be able to completely destroy Megaupload&co (and without using SOPA/PIPA at all), what may we expect next?
This is just a small news in the big design, but the world is slowly (slowly?) changing and it's just fun to see how some are trying to deny this.

Yeah, most of all, I'm curious now.

[Archem]

RESIDENT EVIL 6 ANNOUNCED

Have you seen the trailer? It's complete ****. Seriously. It's the worst thing I've ever seen. The demo for the 3DS RE game, on the other hand, is fantastic. It's like a middle ground between old RE and RE4. It's like sex.