Megaupload Shutdown Sparks Web Retaliation

What scares me about this is that they took the website down based on accusations alone, no legal charges yet. A key point is also that the site is not open for anyone to download, it's not a file sharing service like Napster was for example. You can't search it, it's just a giant private hard drive.The only way to get the files is to be given a link by the file owner to download it. On top of that, the service is used for thousands and thousands of other reasons completely unrelated to music or movies. I've used it to share family pictures for example. There are a HUGE number of groups that suddenly cannot access their own documents, spreadsheets, pictures, personal movies, and other databases simply because the entertainment industry purchased the FBI and got it taken down.

It's sad but we are slowly losing our civil rights and standard of living to greed.

So it cost them 500 Million dollars.... How much did it cost them to buy key players in government to fight for them?

If they already have the right to shut down sites like this, what is the point of the SOPA and POPA?

I call for anonymous to take down congress.

I'm confused.....why is it that the government is spending so much time and resources on something like this when we have a budget in crisis, homeless and unemployed people, starving children, etc? Priorities please?

The Government has started something they will not be able to finish. An attack on one is an attack on all, and they will soon realize that they have stepped on a landmine that will continue to explode in their faces again and again and again. We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. We will only win.

It's amazing the Feds went all the way to New Zealand to track these guys down for supposedly causing $500 million in damages to a handful of corporations, but still can't find their way to Wall Street after stealing Trillions...

Boycott hollywood

They should at least let people save their files before shutting it down. There is a lot of file sharing going on there, but there are also a lot of people who use it for legit file sharing.

I have a feeling lots of youngsters are going to start helping Anonymous. The Feds are driving them right into the arms of the hackers.

I can get free movies, free music, free books, free software. Want to know my source? It's Your public library. Is the Government going to shut down all libraries next? IDIOTS. FOAD.

People do not want to go to the movies anymore. With recent things like Netflix and Hulu they get unlimited streaming instant movies and tv shows at home for the cheap price of about 8 dollars a month. Instead of the movie industry changing with the fast growing and changing technology, they instead fight to hold it back.

I hope anonymous continues their attack on the GOV.

If SOPA passes, you can be sure all hell will break loose and anon will bring down the gov sites.

The internet is free and should remain that way. You think piracy hurts the music industry? Puhleeze. Artists don't care. Labels already pay them through contracts so it doesn't affect them. As for the producers? The fact that the CEO of megaupload is a producer tells you they aren't affected either.

Keep on anon.

I would comment but I am scared of NDAA

I just loaned a cd to a neighbor,is that illegal now too?

God... and so it begins. The censoring and control of the internet as begun. Megaupload was NOT a site for pirates, it wasn't THEIR fault it was used that way. Should YouTube be shut down because people play pirated music there? How about Facebook where people post copyrighted images or share song links? Hell why don't you police out God #$%$ email like the #$%$ bags you're acting like!? People share mp3 across that all the time! I don't support Anon for hurting people's families or stealing money but when the Feds do stuff like this, what it represents, its hard not to cheer for them.

This won't stop lol it's already back up

It started with 911. The Patriot Act. We need a revolution...I know Thomas Jefferson would not be a happy.

Dear MPAA, RIAA, etc. you can shut down the entire internet, I still will never buy your content ever again, especially now.

Hellz Yeah Anonymous, keep giving it to these punks! There is strength in numbers!!!