This is why we can't have nice things on the Internet

[METALFumasu]

For those of you who were wondering how the takedown of MegaUpload would affect the interweb, well, here's your answer. Other filehosts are shutting down their file-sharing capabilities left and right.

Quote:

In the wake of last week's government crackdown on Megaupload for copyright infringement, attention turned to what other cloud-based services might be at risk of prosecution. Could popular offerings like Dropbox, Box, or YouSendIt be targets?

Those and other larger sites insist that their dealings are legitimate and that they take the necessary precautions to prevent the facilitation of piracy. At this point, it appears that the Megaupload shutdown has had a larger impact on smaller Web sites that are now shutting down their rewards programs as well as file-sharing capabilities.

Earlier today, FileSonic disabled all sharing functionality on its site. "Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally," the company said in a note on its Web site.

Okay, I'm not happy about FileSonic doing something like this, but it was bound to happen, just like what happened to Hotfile.

But this just pisses me off.

Quote:

Similarly, uploaded.to now has a message for U.S. visitors that says, "Our service is currently unavailable in your country. Sorry about that."

That's just not cool. My IP address gets banned (from downloading legitimate content mind you), while my next-door neighbors in B.C. can freely access their website. FFFFFFFUUUUUU-

shamelessly copied from a post on another site I frequent, sorry but I don't have sauces for these

Bitshare: Alive

Bulletupload: Alive (New banning policy for copyright infringers)

Crocko: Alive, Closed affiliate program.

Filejungle: Dead. Closed affiliate program. Only uploaders can retrieve their files.

Filepost: Alive, Closed affiliate program.

Fileserve: Dead. Closed affiliate program. Only uploaders can retrieve their files.

Filesonic: Dead. Closed affiliate program. Only uploaders can retrieve their files.

Hotfile: Alive, Closed affiliate program.

Mediafire: Alive (Has no affiliate program)

Megaupload: Dead, pending lawsuit from US federal government.

Oron: Alive

Rapidgator: Alive

Rapidshare: Alive (Has no affiliate program)

Uploaded.to: Alive, but blocking US traffic

Uploading.com: Closed affiliate program and Affiliate accounts will be suspended tomorrow.

Uploadstation: Dead. Closed affiliate program. Only uploaders can retrieve their files.

WUpload: Alive. Closed affiliate program before Megaupload fiasco citing financial reasons.

In short, filehosts (popular ones anyway), seem to be dropping their file-sharing services like hot potatoes because the DoJ's takedown of MegaUpload is scaring them shitless (unless you're TPB, in which case you seem to be ******** invincible).

Not to mention that trying to take down MegaUpload won't stop Internet piracy.

So thank you United States Department of Justice, for breaking a small part of Internet culture (without SOPA no less).

The Zen Master says, "******** assholes. Go die in a fire."

[Ray Comfort]

Mask your IP address to make it seem like you're outside of the US.

[Heimdalr]

You don't need to erect a Great Firewall. You never needed to. You just needed to be granted international warrants for people's arrest based on an accusation by a district court; the rest of the world's companies are very happy to exclude Americans from our half of the Internet if such a thing can happen out of the blue. Good luck in there.

[Abdul Salaam]

******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.

[Camera Stellata]

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:0="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

[Abdul Salaam]

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:1="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

[Camera Stellata]

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:2="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

Me too. Good job this is just copyright infringement, otherwise I'd be mad as hell.

[Abdul Salaam]

Camera Stellata

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:3="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

Me too. Good job this is just copyright infringement, otherwise I'd be mad as hell.

CI is Theft.

[TANRailgun]

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:4="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

Me too. Good job this is just copyright infringement, otherwise I'd be mad as hell.

CI is Theft.

Despite what those major media corporations say (and what you obviously believe) CI is not legally theft.

[Camera Stellata]

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:4="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

Me too. Good job this is just copyright infringement, otherwise I'd be mad as hell.

CI is Theft.

Only if you want to use a very vague and general term in place of an accurate and objective term for the sake of emotivity. I mean, you could say stealing someones girlfriend is an act of theft if you equivicate enough. I like the term "copyright infrignement" as it draws distinction.

For your theft we could just as easily use the term killing in reference to a range of activites all the way from 1st degree murder to manslaughter and then euthansia. Clearly its dishonest not to draw distinction.

We're talking about copyright infringement, not theft.

[Abdul Salaam]

TANRailgun

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:5="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

Me too. Good job this is just copyright infringement, otherwise I'd be mad as hell.

CI is Theft.

Despite what those major media corporations say (and what you obviously believe) CI is not legally theft.

******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.

[Abdul Salaam]

Camera Stellata

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish Economy

Camera Stellata

The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry a

oer7vtn4:5="The Irish ******** shouldn't be freely trading copyrighted material they haven't paid for then.

********.

It's about damn time, this crackdown happened.[/quote]lol of all the things to be angry about!

Theft pisses me off.

Me too. Good job this is just copyright infringement, otherwise I'd be mad as hell.

CI is Theft.

Only if you want to use a very vague and general term in place of an accurate and objective term for the sake of emotivity. I mean, you could say stealing someones girlfriend is an act of theft if you equivicate enough. I like the term "copyright infrignement" as it draws distinction.

For your theft we could just as easily use the term killing in reference to a range of activites all the way from 1st degree murder to manslaughter and then euthansia. Clearly its dishonest not to draw distinction.

We're talking about copyright infringement, not theft.

CI being a Theft of Intelectual Property.

Eitherway, these sites were breaking the Law to ******** and Back.

Im glad they are gone.

[METALFumasu]

Inconsistent With Reality

Good luck in there.

Yeah, no kidding.

The Irish ******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.[/quote]
@Irish economy: So... you're saying that all filehosting sites are guilty of copyright infringement, even though they have no real control over what their users upload (until it's already on the site), and should be shutdown because one person uploaded an episode of Jersey Shore?

And to assume that there's any cyber-locker site completely free of copyrighted content is extremely naive. As an article I read today pointed out, legitimate users "brush shoulders with pirates" (paraphrasing) on most likely every cyber-locker site.

Do you suggest that we ban file-sharing altogether, regardless of con

oer7vtn4:1="The Irish ******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.[/quote]
@Irish economy: So... you're saying that all filehosting sites are guilty of copyright infringement, even though they have no real control over what their users upload (until it's already on the site), and should be shutdown because one person uploaded an episode of [i surprised er7vtn4:2]Jersey Shore[/i surprised er7vtn4:2]?

And to assume that there's any cyber-locker site completely free of copyrighted content is extremely naive. As an article I read today pointed out, legitimate users "brush shoulders with pirates" (paraphrasing) on most likely every cyber-locker site.

Do you suggest that we ban file-sharing altogether, regardless of content?

[Sarah Louise Kerrigan]

The Irish ******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.[/quote]
Spirit of.. no. Most of the decent people in history, the moral guides of civilization, have been beaten, shot, imprisoned and tortured by the law. Want to put your religious zeal in support of something as silly as government legislation, be my guest, be forgo

oer7vtn4:0="The Irish ******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.[/quote]
Spirit of.. no. Most of the decent people in history, the moral guides of civilization, have been beaten, shot, imprisoned and tortured by the law. Want to put your religious zeal in support of something as silly as government legislation, be my guest, be forgotten.

[Abdul Salaam]

Sarah Louise Kerrigan

The Irish ******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.[/quote]
Spirit of.. no. Most of the decent people in history, the moral guides of civilization, have been beaten, shot, imprisoned and tortured by the law. Want to put your religious zeal in support of something as silly as government legislation, be my guest, be forgo

oer7vtn4:1="The Irish ******** legality.
Follow the Spirit of the Law as much as the Letter.[/quote]
Spirit of.. no. Most of the decent people in history, the moral guides of civilization, have been beaten, shot, imprisoned and tortured by the law. Want to put your religious zeal in support of something as silly as government legislation, be my guest, be forgotten.

Religious Zeal?
The ********?

What does religious Zeal have to do with people who bypass, what the Law "Intends to do" through loopholes, and grey wording.

Im talking about the people who are ******** out, of Murder Convictions, comepnsation for wrongful death, loss of property, family members.
Because someone managed to find a way "around the law" specifically around what the law was meant to be in place to do.


Music, Vidios, Tv-Series, are Property, they belong to the creators or the licenseing owners.
The same way, I own my Laptop.

When people start to illegially trade , upload and download those things, they are Stealing that content from the origional owners.

It's theft, it's breaking Copyright, sites like Megauplode, cost people Jobs, normal working people, it puts familys on the streets, it causes the industry massive losses.

You can dance around it all you like, you can try and justify yourself with Legal Technicalitys.
But when you take something that you do not own, and edit or move that content in a way you are not legally entitled to do so.
You are comitting Theft.

The same way as if I came into your house and grabbed your wallet, or stole your DvD collection.