Megaupload taken down by US government

[Akonyl]

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/multiupload.com

It's not just you! http://multiupload.com looks down from here.

... ಠ_ಠ

I hope this is temporary.

It should be, at least for now. The two incidents are related though, in that Megaupload going down has led to a great deal more traffic for Multiupload, and their servers were not ready for it, as a lot of communities are now trying to hurry and move all of their stuff over before their entire infrastructure collapses (you'd maybe be surprised how many straight up "Megaupload" communities there are, they didn't support any other sites).

yeah, after I posted that I figured that might be the case because it wasn't completely down, in the sense that you could still ping it.

and nah, I'm not really surprised, the other forum I go to has pretty much based their entire uploading section on MU and roughly 86% of all links were obliterated by it before the admin just took down the uploads section for the time being. We really have no way of rebuilding quickly anyway though so it's pretty much been a constant stream of "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" for the past few days. 

[MadelineLime]

So it might start to get dicey as FileSonic is also gone.

[Conan-kun]

Next to be gone is Filesonic as they have disabled the ability to share files.  I am thinking that Filesonic is scared and doing this as a precautionary measure.  Anyway, now only the original uploader is able to retrieve the files stored there.

[mangaluva]

Fileserve seems to have done the same thing ;_;

[Puto]

And FileServe too...

[Jd-]

The DDL age looks to be coming to an end.

[Akonyl]

I'm hopin rapidshare will stay up at the very least, iirc a little after MU went down they made a statement along the lines of them "not being concerned by it", but we'll see.

[Jd-]

I went ahead and merged the two bigger topics on this subject.

[dilbertschalter]

well, deserved, but man this sucks. it's an interesting case of how law and morality can be on one side (the law is against most of these sites, and "morally" speaking" it's correct to go after people who effectively act as pirate distributors) and utility is on the other- in purely utilitarian terms, the effect of shutting these things down is highly negative, because people got the benefit of enjoying things for things they mostly wouldn't have paid for anyway.

[Jd-]

well, deserved, but man this sucks. it's an interesting case of how law and morality can be on one side (the law is against most of these sites, and "morally" speaking" it's correct to go after people who effectively act as pirate distributors) and utility is on the other- in purely utilitarian terms, the effect of shutting these things down is highly negative, because people got the benefit of enjoying things for things they mostly wouldn't have paid for anyway.

You're right too often, D. I agree, again.

The U.S. government has won this battle against the current DDL establishment. Just this one precedent has sent everyone else running. There's no telling what will come next just yet.

[Katty008]

There's an indie game developer named Jeff Vogel who put it wonderfully quite a while ago in regards to kids from countries with horrible exchange rates emailing him. It was along the lines of if you can afford it, great. But if there is absolutely no way, then he'd rather you pirate his games and enjoy them then not.

At least we still have torrents. For now.

[MadelineLime]

Rapidshare is apparently completely unfazed by all of this.

"We're not concerned or scared about the raid," Daniel Raimer, a spokesperson for RapidShare, told Ars in a phone interview. "File hosting itself is a legitimate business."

If a manager of a bank got arrested for money laundering, he said, it wouldn't lead to the shut-down of all banks. And he said Microsoft's SkyDrive and other cloud data storage and backup services," from a technical standpoint are doing what we do."

[Toddler Naruto]

Hrmm, any chance of the SD AVIs for recent DCTP encodes of Detective Conan episodes being added to XDCC Bots in DCTP's IRC Channel?

[Raiden]

www.Gigasize.com is still around, too. \o/

[Detective_Alex]

Hotfile is working too