Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby Castor Troy » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:41 am

Chained(E)Studio wrote:MegaUpload is back?

http://109.236.83.66/

lol


Fake.

That sets off a DDoS attack that attacks all of the sites that went down. :?
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby Chained(E)Studio » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:43 am

Castor Troy wrote:
Fake.

That sets off a DDoS attack that attacks all of the sites that went down. :?


I'm not sure what that means, cause I don't get all the hacking thing xD But okay.
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby Castor Troy » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:49 am

It massively pings the government and entertainment sites that all went down.
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby Chained(E)Studio » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:54 am

maybe that should be removed then? : S
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby drewaconclusion » Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:13 pm

KingRoyMustang wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tD1yaE0GfQ

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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby Knowname » Sat Jan 21, 2012 7:07 pm

Yeah I was just thinkin The NDAA was made for ppl like him
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby guy07 » Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:19 pm

Good. I never got to watch the full movies anyways. fucking time limits...
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby 8bit_samurai » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:31 pm

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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby EvaFan » Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:03 pm

Why am I not surprised. I mean really, just out of the blue after megauploads been around for years they just come out and go after them. Of course there was another reason. Should have known there was two sides to the story than to get sucked into the first article posted by the OP.

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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:40 pm

aesling wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:Should be an interesting case with some interesting 4th amendment violation claims coming from it.


Um, why 4th Amendment? They seem to have warrants and cooperation from the authorities of the other nations involved. Have you seen more details somewhere on this?

They seized the equivalent of an entire storage depot because the guys owning it were shady. The people in charge of Megaupload didn't own all the files that were seized - mostly uninvolved individuals did. There are those that believe they needed warrants and probable cause for every single person who had files on those servers to justify seizing it all like they did. Not sure what the precedence is on the real world equivalent. Can the feds raid and confiscate an entire storage facility because the owners were busted doing illegal business out of one of the lockers?

It's already started - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... eizure.ars
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Re: Federal Government Shuts Down Megaupload

Postby aesling » Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:55 pm

Well, that is a pretty thorny question. Normally if it's files from another, unrelated entity or company, they would have to do their best to separate those out to avoid violating privacy or leaking sensitive information (which is why cases involving stuff like cloud servers are a bitch). However, that article makes it sound like they're concerned over the privacy of people who uploaded legitimate files to Megaupload? To be honest, I'm not 100% sure what the procedure should be in this case, but I would think they have to at least sort those files to see which ones are legit and which ones aren't. Unless they want lawsuits, they should keep the files not involved in the case as confidential as possible, though.
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