Megaupload shut down and owners charged

Status of File Sharing Sites:

Megaupload - Closed.
FileServe - Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Deleting multiple files. Banning Premium accounts. Closed Affiliate Program.
FileJungle - Deleting files. Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.
FileSonic - Stopped filesharing. You can only download your own files. Closed Affiliate Program. Changed server location Jan 22, 2012. Taken down it's Facebook page Now using Digital fingerprinting. Files are being deleted as soon as uploaded (as Hotfile did).
UploadStation - Owned by Fileserve (same as above). Testing USA IP addresses blocking.
VideoBB - Closed Affiliate Program.
Uploaded - Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost - Started suspending accounts with infringing material (as Hotfile did)
Videoz - Closed Affiliate Program.
4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI
Org torrent - could vanish with everything within 30 days "he is under criminal investigation"
Network Share mIRC - awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrent everything.
EnterUpload - Down (Redirect)
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/..._pulls_a_filesonic_only_allows_you_to/c3jr876


Still going:
Rapidshare
MediaFire


Looks like what is old is new ... I'm heading back to UseNet !
 
Yeah, from what I've seen/heard, Usenet is becoming the go-to option for a lot of people. Too bad most ISP's don't offer free access anymore.
 
Digital Doctor said:
6 File Sharing sites still up.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/248661/megaupload_alternatives_6_sites_still_open_for_business.html
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It's to be expected. MegaUpload going down only ensures another one goes up, or an existing one becomes even bigger.

That's the fundamental issue with all this anti-piracy legislation: it won't stop piracy, and it will only annoy people with legitimate cause. It's like how all the music DRM and rootkits backfired. Physical media sales are still going down.

The MPAA really needs to get with the times. People clearly have demand for digital distribution, as seen by the success of the iTunes Store. Why can't movie studios just offer a very simple model: sell the movie as a digital download, in any of the standard formats w/o DRM, for a fair price. Sure, piracy will still occur, but I guarantee you they would sell many copies this way.
 
I've been using Gobbler.com since the shutdown. It's meant for media creators to backup/transfer their project files but is super fast to transfer any file as well. They're giving away free 5GB accounts which is good enough for me for the month. On the same note, files that have already been txfrd through their system send instantly...pretty cool feature in my mind.
 
good luck to him.

oh, btw
Dotcom searches illegal: Judge

The High Court has ruled the police raid on internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's Auckland mansion was illegal and the removal from New Zealand of cloned copies of hard drives seized was unlawful.

Justice Helen Winkelmann found the warrants used did not adequately describe the offences to which they were related.

"Indeed they fell well short of that. They were general warrants, and as such, are invalid.''
A spokesman for Dotcom's attorneys said Dotcom and his co-defendants were pleased.
"They are very happy with Justice Winkelmann's decision," wrote a representative for Simpson Grierson. "We are considering our clients' remedies as a result of the decision that the search warrants were unlawful and that the FBI sending the clones to the USA was also unlawful."

Police said they were considering the judgement and are in discussions with Crown Law to determine what further action might be required. They would not make any comment until that process was complete.

Justice Winkelmann's judgement released a short time ago found the warrants were far too wide in terms of the scope of the search and the amount of items they gave police authority to seize.

"These categories of items were defined in such a way that they would inevitably capture within them both relevant and irrelevant material. The police acted on this authorisation. The warrants could not authorise seizure of irrelevant material, and are therefore invalid.''

The cloning of Dotcom's hard drives by the FBI, who took the copied disks back to the US was also ruled as invalid because Dotcom had never given consent.

The court ordered an independent lawyer to review everything seized in the raid to determine what is relevant to the investigation and what is not.

Relevant material is to be released to US authorities and everything else is be returned to Dotcom "forthwith''.
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welcome to New Zealand.
 
Kim is fighting back now.....
http://kim.com

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They're online now it would seem :)

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