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Post by itrainmonkeys on Jan 19, 2012 16:17:30 GMT -5
WASHINGTON – Seven individuals and two corporations have been charged in the United States with running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works, through Megaupload.com and other related sites, generating more than $175 million in criminal proceeds and causing more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners, the U.S. Justice Department and FBI announced today.
This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.
The individuals and two corporations – Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited – were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on Jan. 5, 2012, and charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement. The individuals each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering, five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and five years in prison on each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement.
God it's hard to take stuff like Anonymous seriously when they release shit like that. Nothing annoys me more than people who take themselves too seriously and those people over at Anon are the kings of that. Maybe the only people better at taking themselves too seriously are politicians.
God it's hard to take stuff like Anonymous seriously when they release poop like that. Nothing annoys me more than people who take themselves too seriously and those people over at Anon are the kings of that. Maybe the only people better at taking themselves too seriously are politicians.
i just can't stand the background music. the only thing worse than the Anonymous videos are the 10 minute 'Ron Paul can predict the future" videos with the Inception music.
Post by rideincircles on Jan 20, 2012 12:42:04 GMT -5
Unfortunately this is is a sign of things to come. If you download content for free, it would be best to get it all while you still can. The USA set a huge precedent that our law is so great that it affects anyone anywhere. This basically means they can go after whoever they want without SOPA or PIPA. Copyright violators, terrorists, it makes no difference to the USA since we interpret our laws on a global scale.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jan 23, 2012 10:59:11 GMT -5
Mere days after the FBI shut down Megaupload.com and arrested its staff, competitors Filesonic.com and Fileserve.com have made the decision to wipe all file-sharing functionality from their own services.
Until now, both sites operated in much the same way as Megaupload did: users could upload any kind of file to the websites for their own personal storage, but also share a public link to allow others to download the file for free.
As of 23 January, however, that latter functionality is no longer available on either site. Trying to download any previously shared file from Filesonic results in the error 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." On Fileserve a similar message reads: "FileServe can only be used to download and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally."
It seems unlikely that either site will revert back to offering its file-sharing services any time soon, and so existing users would be advised to use an alternative service for the mean time. RapidShare, based in Switzerland, has publically stated that its users needn't worry: "There is no reason to be concerned," the site said on its Facebook page. "We aren't threatened in any way." Perhaps it'll rake in some new users as a result.
Fileserve and Filesonic operated on freemium business models, meaning anonymous users could download from the sites with limited speeds, or pay for unlimited access for a month or more. Users who had paid the sites to gain access to these "premium" download features are now left in the cold.
They didn't offer search features so it was down to third-party sites to provide links to hosted content. One popular site, FilesTube.com, has already removed Filesonic from its large list of searchable sites, making it quite clear that the residents of cyberlocker world are sailing in stormy waters.
No notice, blog or corporate announcement has been made by Filesonic to explain its sudden action, although it's almost certainly in response to the Megaupload spat. Earlier this week the result of two years of FBI investigation time resulted in the raiding of the home of the site's founder, the seizure of $50m (£32m) of possessions and the shutting down of 18 domains, including Megaupload. Megavideo and Megaporn. (We have a deeper analysis for those curious about what this means.)
Wired.co.uk contacted Filesonic for comment but no-one had returned our request at the time of publication. We will update this story if and when we hear from the site.
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