Megaupload

(13-02-2012 16:35 )stitches Wrote:  silly question - can you still download mega-upload files ? i havent read all of this thread so i dont know. i have'nt even attempted to download any of these mega-upload files that were on the forum before what has happpened just incase the goverment are watching me lol

No you cannot access/download any thing on the megaupload site, the FBI logo is still the front end of the site.

(15-02-2012 08:16 )remote Wrote:  No you cannot access/download any thing on the megaupload site, the FBI logo is still the front end of the site.

At least the Megaupload data hasn't been deleted yet and still currently exists on the Megaupload servers.

http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-many-...nt-120312/

Heres some news for the uploaders that didnt have backups of their MU files. Megauploads laywer team are trying to negotiate with the DOJ to allow users to re-download their own files. Negotiating with the DOJ doesnt sound very assuring but what the hell its better than nothing.
Funnily enough its been revealed that some MU users are high-ranked US government officials

(24-01-2012 18:54 )eagle_si Wrote:  Oh how stupid of me not to predict that megaupload would be shut down when I started the thread and put "Caps and Vids" in the title

You'd think the FBI would have more important things to do than stopping people looking at tits!!!!

A very interesting turn in the MU case. I can remember reading(and wondered myself) all around the internet how it was possible for the US government to takedown a foreign company. Apparently it wasnt possible at all.
http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-trial...ys-120420/

The US government can file criminal charges against a person outside of their country. They cannot however serve a company(Megaupload) with criminal charges, which is what they tried to do. As a result the trial will probably never happen and MU was basically destroyed without any proper legal action. Complete epic fail. Hopefully soon they will make a decision on what will happen to all the servers they confiscated as evidence.

(25-04-2012 19:01 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  ...
Complete epic fail.
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Is it though?
MU is gone, and most of the other file-hosters have cleaned their servers and in some cases, stopped sharing completely. I'd say that's the result they really wanted.
I did say at the time that I could forsee the case eventually collapsing but the real damage would already have been done by then.

they (the american government) would have known this outcome. but they've proper fucked up file sharing which was the point!

(25-04-2012 19:32 )munch1917 Wrote:  

(25-04-2012 19:01 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  ...
Complete epic fail.
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Is it though?
MU is gone, and most of the other file-hosters have cleaned their servers and in some cases, stopped sharing completely. I'd say that's the result they really wanted.
I did say at the time that I could forsee the case eventually collapsing but the real damage would already have been done by then.

All true, more of a point that its a very embarrassing blunder on their part. But then again to say didnt have an idea this would happen would be fairly naive. Not sure what kind of case Dotcom is planning now but its bound to be very enlightening.
Dotcoms under house arrest and along with others were all released on bail.

(25-04-2012 19:01 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  Hopefully soon they will make a decision on what will happen to all the servers they confiscated as evidence.

This isn't true. No servers were ever confiscated. The servers are still with the hosting company, where they always have been (gathering dust at the moment). The police had a search warrant to search the servers, not to confiscate them.

(25-04-2012 22:54 )Prince Henry Sinclair Wrote:  This isn't true. No servers were ever confiscated.

Apologies, shouldnt have written this out in a rush. Youre right they werent confiscated. The hosting company though is still waiting for a decision on what to do with the info on the servers. Last I read they too were waiting to get sued