10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
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10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
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Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#2 I don't remember any direct pirate activity from megaupload.
Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#3I don't remember any direct pirate activity from megaupload.
Huh? You were using megaupload for legitimate reasons? I would counter that I don't recall any instance of using it for non illegal downloads.
Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#4The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.
Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#5I don't remember any direct pirate activity from megaupload.
Huh? You were using megaupload for legitimate reasons? I would counter that I don't recall any instance of using it for non illegal downloads.
The article said there are millions of personal files in there. Whether you use it legally does not matter.
Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#6The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.
yeah i love it as well. plus i can buy the premium service in BTC...
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#7Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#8The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.
i use it as a backup tool.
thier gui mega is also good.
Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#9The peak for warez communities was right around 2006. I distinctly remember how popular those forums and other sites were. There were ridiculous amounts of pirated software and media being shared, and most of that content was in fact hosted on Megaupload or RapidShare.
If you knew people (from IRC) you could get invited to scene torrent sites which was a much more efficient way of getting what you want. I mean, everything posted on warez forums was coming from scene FTPs anyway, it was just a matter of who had access to them.
EDIT: Hmm, this actually got me thinking. Did OVH ever get in trouble for how much illegal traffic they processed back in those days? If my memory serves, OVH was a very popular choice because of their reliable connectivity and really good upload/download speeds.
Re: 10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
#10And mediafire.com was wiped of nearly everything on the same day, which was also devastating for a lot of niche music scenes that had uploaded an unprecedented amount of material there.