Now it's Filesonic, the witch hunt was officialy begin.

[SenseOfTumour]

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But these sites aren't being shut down. THEY ARE SHUTTING THEMSELVES DOWN. The US has done fuck all outside of legally shutting down MegaUpload after a TWO YEAR investigation. Furthermore, MegaUpload was shut down for reasons beyond copyright violations. That place had all sorts of illegal stuff going on.

These other sites are simply acting like scared sheep and needlessly running for cover out of fear they will be next. This isn't the start of a war. This is just the US strategically timing the shut down of one site and as a result causing a bunch of other sites to wildly over react.

I was kinda talking about Megaupload, tho I take your point.

I still maintain that a lot of people have lost legal content thru no fault of their own, however, and I doubt if you confiscated everyone's bags in a mall because there'd been a shoplifter, that everyone would go 'ah that's fine, the law must prevail'.

I'm just hoping that someone uses the Megaupload case to prove that current laws DO work however, and there's no need for far reaching and horribly 'open to interpretation' laws like SOPA, PIPA, and in Europe, ACTA. There's no other crime I can think of where, you'd be able to shut down a store because a customer had been rumoured to be dealing drugs in the parking lot.

 

[Macgyvercas]

You mean 4shared is removing stuff? But what about D&D manuals in the OGL???

 

[Something Amyss]

So where I was downloading away when I decide to download something there was stored in the Filesonic when I got this message:

All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.

If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager.

Now, Now. I don't actually think that the FBI is behind this, but everyone seems to be a little afraid after Megaupload. So that's the situation so far:

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Fileserve, Filejungle, Uploadstation and Filesonic - They are deleting several files and closing their membership.

Uploaded - Banned USA Ip.

Filepost and Hotfile - Is suspending all accounts that inflicts their rules

4shared - Deleting several files

Mediafire - Will have to open up to the FBI and depose to them.

Fuck... Shit just got real.

At the risk of sounding skeptical, sources on these?

 

[Edible Avatar]

You ever see the Dark Knight? Batman has no jurisdiction.

Solution? Well its simple, you see, we kill the "Batman". Batman will find the pirates and make them squeal! And i know the squealers when i see them and....

OT: I'll give it 1 year, then Youtube will be brought down. Its like 5 minutes till midnight on the internet doomsday clock.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

yes it got real indeed.

as an Engineer where you have to move and share files that are to big to be send by email you're fucked. i am fucked.

Umm. It's really easy to do that with AIM and Skype. External hard drives. Yousendit.com also works really well and I'm fairly positive that it rarely gets used for piracy due to its structure (like attaching your name, address, and e-mail to it).

 

[Vrach]

Erm, those services have been deleting files and members for years now. Basically, they keep files up, but whenever they get a complaint, they take it down - same goes for repeating offenders I would imagine. Nothing new there except for the Filesonic thing and they just signed their own death warrant, they'll be out of business in a week (and replaced by a new service in two, not that there aren't enough services to step up in their place already anyway).

 

[zelda2fanboy]

And yet somehow literally every industry has grown massively as the internet has developed...Well, except non-digital newspapers I guess..? Funny how the media never complained about that or demanded retarded laws. They just adapted instead. I guess the entertainment industry doesn't give a fuck about adapting, which would also be consistent with their history.

"Every" industry? How does one "adapt" to someone stealing your property? Say I make games or a living and by selling games, I make money. Then suddenly people find a way to play my games without ever having to pay. How do I make my money? "Adapting" seems to mean just getting a different job. This isn't defending free speech like with SOPA. This is defending theft. Imagine instead of Amazon.com selling TVs, they just gave away TVs online.

You see this guy? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089954/Megaupload-founder-Kim-Dotcom-sprang-electronic-locks-Bond-villain-lair-police-swooped.html

Lives is a mansion built on the back of providing a service for people to steal from artists. He made millions Had "God" on his license plates. If you want to "stand up" for this guy, feel free, but he looks a lot more like a "fat cat" than any of the millions of people he stole from.

 

[Smeggs]

Fuck... Shit just got real.

M'yes, sites that have for years been making money off distributing copyrighted material are being taken down, clearly we are living in a totalitarian communist state now. Now if you'll excuse me I need to purchase some lubricant before the stormtroopers come knockin' at my door. Oh my ;D

The sarcasm is almost palpable in that comment. I love it.

Anyway, I don't really care about Megaupload or FileSonic. I care more about Fair Use being removed. No more Let's Plays, no more walkthroughs, no more reviews...no more clips of quotes from movies to to emphasize how we feel on a subject!!!


Apparently i can haz cheezburger, but i can't haz intrenetz.

 

[DEAD34345]

*sigh* This is what happens when you start messing with the internet, and cracking down on freedom of speech and information. There's even at least one relatively large site out there that is blocking American IPs now, out of fear. I really hope things don't get any worse, the USA could screw up the greatest invention of the 20th century for everyone, and all out of some misguided sense of greed.

Ok, it's time for the UK to step in and take over the US. Please? Hell, I'll leave the door unlocked for ya. Now all my anime and porn is getting cut off

we tried that before. then you called our monarch a shitlord[sup][citation needed][/sup] and shot us in the faces. personally, i think America was just a British plot to get rid of all the annoying-ass Puritans who were cramping our styles that got out of hand.

This is the best summary of the colonisation of America/the American Revolutionary War ever. I'm not even kidding.

 

[Avalanche91]

damn, some people in washington are REALLY lobbying for internet police or whatever their next idea is.

It's a tad annoying, here on the other side of the ocean, cause we use those websites as well, and we couldn't care much less about your politics.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

This is what internet is going to look like in a few years if "land of the free" had their way

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Oh shit, was this image copyrighted?

 

[fenrizz]

I just realised that these are not torrent sites.

Who are these people that do no use torrents in this day and age?
Simply baffeling...

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

*sigh* This is what happens when you start messing with the internet, and cracking down on freedom of speech and information. There's even at least one relatively large site out there that is blocking American IPs now, out of fear. I really hope things don't get any worse, the USA could screw up the greatest invention of the 20th century for everyone, and all out of some misguided sense of greed.

Ok, it's time for the UK to step in and take over the US. Please? Hell, I'll leave the door unlocked for ya. Now all my anime and porn is getting cut off

we tried that before. then you called our monarch a shitlord[sup][citation needed][/sup] and shot us in the faces. personally, i think America was just a British plot to get rid of all the annoying-ass Puritans who were cramping our styles that got out of hand.

This is the best summary of the colonisation of America/the American Revolutionary War ever. I'm not even kidding.

Nah, you missed the part where the Americans were pissed because they needed to pay some taxes to help the British recoup the costs of defending their butts in the French and Indian war, and they got mad at the prospect of having to pay people for services rendered. Seriously, I'm an American and even I know that's what happened. You know what else? It's not just our revolution that was based on not wanting to pay people. You see, we were the China of the 18th century when it came to copyright. We didn't have our own copyright or patent office, and we didn't recognize those of other countries. Hell, that's why the industrial revolution came to America: someone stole the plans to a patented machine from England and brought it to America, where he couldn't get in trouble for it, but could make a crapton of money. And now /we're/ the most anal IP enforcers on the planet. Makes sense.

 

[Darks63]

Damn that alot sites host their game mods on those things guess im sol on that front glad i dled the whole stalker complete series during december.

 

[Something Amyss]

This is what internet is going to look like in a few years if "land of the free" had their way

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Oh shit, was this image copyrighted?

I'm sorry, but we're going to have to detain you without trial.

I just realised that these are not torrent sites.

Who are these people that do no use torrents in this day and age?
Simply baffeling...

A lot of people, it seems.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Please for the love of god don't take down Zippyshare & Rapidshare D:

 

[dreamstar72]

So I was wondering since the concern is over copy written material, which most people use once like to watch a movie. Will this make it also illegal to borrow a movie to watch, because isn't this sort of the same thing?

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

This is fucking ridiculous.

Both what happened to the sites AND the people here who aren't mad about it.

Even if you are against all downloading, legal or otherwise, get mad about the principle. You realize they could do the EXACT same thing to Youtube and every other video or media site on the net for the same reasons.

This also seems relevant:
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Possible Godwin's Law or melodramatic violation, but the point still stands; Stop this shit NOW before they get to the stuff YOU care about.

EDIT: Apologies. I misunderstood the article. Somehow I read that these other sites where taken down by governments as well, instead of just closing themselves.

 

[alrekr]

Godsdamn it, so that's why I couldn't download that porn tasteful art film.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN YOU FBI!

Why, though, is the Pirate Bay still legal? Why is that a thing?

They're just linking to content that links to illegal content, not actually hosting it.

a guy in the UK is about to get sent to the states for "just linking to illegal contetn"; so explain that.

Which is easy: UK government are push overs thats why!

 

[iRevanchist]

The whole idea of IP is ridiculous. Besides, if people really like a show/movie, they'll buy the dvd, merch, and other stuff.