Megaupload busted!

**anon** · 01-22-2012, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by laz305

once they bea MegaUpload there will be no stopping them. Youtube is next people.

That battle will be brutal, considering YouTube is one of Google's biggest revenue and data collection sources.

**ninoxy** · 01-23-2012, 06:02 PM

brutal

**MASSIVEENTITY** · 01-23-2012, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by anon

Originally Posted by laz305

once they bea MegaUpload there will be no stopping them. Youtube is next people.

That battle will be brutal, considering YouTube is one of Google's biggest revenue and data collection sources.

I forgot about "the tube". how they will handle this will be interesting for sure. Google vs. DOJ

**Snee** · 01-25-2012, 07:54 PM

Needs more tinfoil tbh.

Sort of raises a good point, though. IIRC they never did write out what they logged and didn't log in their privacy statements. (Good luck to the FBI sifting through something like 50 milliion dls a day for something useful, however.)

Between things like this, and ACTA coming up, it's corporate fascism ahoi

I guess it's time to bring on those Darknets as well as get properly acquainted with truecrypt, for those of you who aren't already. Until they completely outlaw VPNs, encryption and privacy, that is.

**bijoy** · 01-27-2012, 07:31 AM

What next? No more warez-bb?

**ASU_Sundevil** · 01-31-2012, 12:49 AM

Their song was way too funny.

**zot** · 01-31-2012, 05:37 AM

I find it somewhat amusing that people could actually fall for any of these "backup site" claims. Unlike a link site like NinjaVideo, which the entire site could easily be copied onto a single small flash drive, a file-hosting site like MegaUpload occupied petabytes of storage, making any secret backup copies prohibitively expensive to store and maintain. So expensive that we can rest assured that none ever existed.

Every few years there's a ground-breaking, earth-shattering bust that catches everyone by surprise. Whether it's scene groups like the Drink-or-Die bust in 2001, or private torrent sites like the EliteTorrents bust in 2005, the existing (surviving) sites go through a rather predictable pattern. First, they all batten down the hatches and shudder in fear in their underground bunkers, expecting the worst. Then gradually, one by one, they loosen things back up, and eventually, life goes on almost like before.

I expect the same process will take place with file hosting sites in the wake of the MegaUpload bust. In fact, I expect most of them to go back as if nothing had ever happened, since they are really not even doing anything that Youtube does not do. Megaupload was an exceptional case, owned and run by a serial convicted criminal, so the company started out under increased police scrutiny and the likelihood of surveillance.

Megaupload may have been more like Usenet.com/Newsgroups.com/Newsfeeds.com - the one company in the usenet provider business that stepped over the line (even a little bit) and ended up being snuffed out as a result - while today the rest of the usenet industry carries on the same as before, almost as if nothing had ever happened.