Federal prosecutors have accused the owners of Megaupload with violating piracy laws, possibly exceeding 500 million dollars in pirated content. One the 13th most popular website in the world, operating as a free file hosting service for any kind of content, Megaupload.com is potentially gone forever.
Megaupload.com staff claims they were always on top of complaints about material that might have been pirated, but for now the service and the content stored within are gone. Currently, there are no answers available as to whether or not the legitimate content stored there will be released.
For users who had previously used Megaupload, some alternatives to the service are RapidShare, MediaFire, DropBox, or Box.net
11 comments:
This is a real shame, I mean I used to use MegaUpload for everything, that's sad news indeed.
RIP Megaupload.. It was such a helpful tool. I'm hoping for a resurrection.
This was pre-Sopa too. I can't imagine how bad it will be if it passes
I was just downloading a file off of there only an hour or two ago. Real shame. At least I still have my dropbox.
Hopefully it'll be back soon.
Don't they realize that even with Megaupload down we'll just go elsewhere to Stream videos? :\
yikes, i may or may not have just watched the second season of a popular British tv series on there 2 days ago
well poo... now where am I going to get my NDS roms?
thats crazy
sucks. R.I.P. old friend.
It's a sad, sad day when megaupload.com has been shut down. It was the only file-sharing service which I actually put money into. It shall be missed.
It's not MegaUpload's fault that their users are uploading copyrighted materials. So why arrest the owner?
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