quote:Reuters
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.
The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.
Megaupload.com has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.
The indictment says at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world.
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Dit soort dingen kunnen het einde betekennen van het internet zoals we het kennen.quote:Op vrijdag 20 januari 2012 02:40 schreef Dawnbreaker het volgende:
http://www.geenstijl.nl/m(...)sloopt_door_fbi.html
http://www.powned.tv/nieu(...)t_megauploadcom.html
http://www.muzikaallimburg.nl/anonymous-neemt-wraak-op-fbi/
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/(...)it-de-lucht-gehaald/
http://tweakers.net/nieuw(...)egen-megaupload.html
Leaseweb heeft Kim's servers gewist.quote:Op woensdag 19 juni 2013 16:05 schreef trancethrust het volgende:
Wat zijn de nieuwe ontwikkelingen dan precies?
Zonder dat Megaupload veroordeeld was?quote:Op woensdag 19 juni 2013 16:07 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
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Leaseweb heeft Kim's servers gewist.
Yep.quote:Op woensdag 19 juni 2013 16:12 schreef trancethrust het volgende:
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Zonder dat Megaupload veroordeeld was?
De FBI zal wel gedreigd hebben met klapjes ofzo.quote:
twitter:KimDotcom twitterde op woensdag 19-06-2013 om 15:21:43 While @EFF is fighting for the rights of #Megaupload users in U.S. court #Leaseweb has taken it upon themselfs to play judge & executioner. reageer retweet
twitter:KimDotcom twitterde op woensdag 19-06-2013 om 15:35:31 #Leaseweb has NOT warned us about deleting #Megaupload servers. They informed us TODAY that servers were deleted on February 1st, 2013. reageer retweet
Het is de FBI.quote:Op woensdag 19 juni 2013 16:31 schreef AlfredJKwak5 het volgende:
Leaseweb is dus direct exit, das duidelijk.
En Megaupload down halen? Op basis van wat, welk bewijs? KimDotcom zei vooraf ook l dat alles versleuteld is en dat ze zelf niet kunnen zien wat er gepost wordt. Op welke juridische basis kan de FBI dan de stekker uit megaupload trekken?
Ik hoop trouwens dat het hierbij blijft. De FBI moet met zijn fikken van het internet afblijven. Daar hebben ze niets te zoeken en ze plegen nu gewoon een inbreuk op de vrijheid.
quote:Kim Dotcom: All Megaupload servers 'wiped out without warning in data massacre' — RT News
Kim Dotcom has accused the US government and Leaseweb, one of the hosting providers of former file-sharing site Megaupload, of deleting millions of personal files "without warning."
#Leaseweb has NOT warned us about deleting #Megaupload servers. They informed us TODAY that servers were deleted on February 1st, 2013.
The information stored on the dormant servers – “petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property” – was what Dotcom called evidence in the case US authorities launched against him in January 2012. Dotcom is wanted in the US on criminal charges for facilitating copyright fraud on a massive scale.
“This is the largest data massacre in the history of the Internet,” Dotcom wrote on Twitter.
Lawyers representing his former company “have repeatedly asked Leaseweb not to delete Megaupload servers while court proceedings are pending in the US,” he added.
Dotcom, who made a fortune from his file-sharing service Megaupload, is currently under a federal investigation launched by the US Department of Justice after by police raided his home. He is currently free on bail in New Zealand, and is wanted in the US on criminal charges for facilitating copyright fraud on a massive scale, racketeering and money-laundering, which carries maximum sentence of 20 years. His extradition trail is set for August.
US authorities claim Megaupload cost copyright holders upwards of $500 million in lost revenues because of content illegally uploaded to its servers. The Department of Justice also believes Dotcom illegally earned $175 million by selling ads and subscriptions on the site.
Last January, on the anniversary of his arrest, Dotcom launched a new file-hosting site dubbed ‘Mega.’
We asked the DOJ to release some of #Megaupload's frozen assets to buy ALL servers. They refused. Now the data stored at #Leaseweb is gone.
“My goal is, within the next five years, I want to encrypt half of the Internet. Just re-establish a balance between a person – an individual – and the state,” Dotcom said in an interview with RT. “Because right now, we are living very close to this vision of George Orwell and I think it’s not the right way. It’s the wrong path that the government is on, thinking that they can spy on everybody.”
Bron: rt.com
quote:Hosting service Leaseweb deletes old Megaupload files in "data massacre"
Web storage giant Kim Dotcom claims a European Web hosting company has committed "the largest data massacre in the history of the Internet."
Netherlands-based LeaseWeb, Dotcom tweeted, deleted millions of files, "petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property," belonging to people who used his former web hosting service, Megaupload.
The snafu was made possible by Dotcom's extraordinary ongoing trials for running Megaupload. In 2012, police raided his New Zealand home, seized his servers, and arrested him, an act courts later declared illegal. Dotcom has since started a similar, sequel hosting company called Mega. He still faces five separate trials related to Megaupload, and the Department of Justice has frozen his assets.
That's why, Dotcom said, he couldn't afford to keep up payments to LeaseWeb. He indicated his lawyers had requested all companies hosting Megaupload data hold it until the trial was over, and be lenient about the fees until Dotcom’s funds were returned. He added that U.S.-based Carpathia, which contains other Megaupload users' content, had honored that request.
But Dotcom never got a warning, he said, and was simply informed Wednesday that the data had been deleted February 1.
LeaseWeb appears to be in damage-control mode. Its press office in the Netherlands didn't respond to emails requesting clarification, and when contacted by phone, the company put the Daily Dot on hold for ten minutes, then refused to take the call. A sales representative said the company was "really busy" crafting a response.
Bron: www.dailydot.com
Zou het Kim's servers zijn of die van LeaseWeb die Kim huurde?quote:Op woensdag 19 juni 2013 16:07 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
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Leaseweb heeft Kim's servers gewist.
Dat is met hun nieuwe dienst Mega ja. Megaupload was dat niet.quote:Op woensdag 19 juni 2013 16:31 schreef AlfredJKwak5 het volgende:
Leaseweb is dus direct exit, das duidelijk.
En Megaupload down halen? Op basis van wat, welk bewijs? KimDotcom zei vooraf ook l dat alles versleuteld is en dat ze zelf niet kunnen zien wat er gepost wordt. Op welke juridische basis kan de FBI dan de stekker uit megaupload trekken?
Ik hoop trouwens dat het hierbij blijft. De FBI moet met zijn fikken van het internet afblijven. Daar hebben ze niets te zoeken en ze plegen nu gewoon een inbreuk op de vrijheid.
Dat was vooral een dump.quote:Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 01:39 schreef xaban06 het volgende:
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Dat is met hun nieuwe dienst Mega ja. Megaupload was dat niet.
Hun eigen servers, die in beslag zijn genomen.quote:Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 01:44 schreef Piet_Piraat het volgende:
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Dat was vooral een dump.
Maar goed, wat hebben ze nog om rechtszaak te starten?
Duurt wel lang.
Dan lijkt me die rechtszaak toch een eitje?quote:Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 01:56 schreef xaban06 het volgende:
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Hun eigen servers, die in beslag zijn genomen.
Zou het niet weten, ik ben totaal niet juridisch aangelegd.quote:Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 01:57 schreef Piet_Piraat het volgende:
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Dan lijkt me die rechtszaak toch een eitje?
Het duurt al verdacht lang voordat er een aanklacht komt.quote:Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 02:01 schreef xaban06 het volgende:
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Zou het niet weten, ik ben totaal niet juridisch aangelegd.
http://blog.leaseweb.com/(...)r-client-megaupload/quote:Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 02:04 schreef Piet_Piraat het volgende:
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Het duurt al verdacht lang voordat er een aanklacht komt.
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