Posted: 1/24/2012 1:14:45 PM EDT
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Found the following while trolling MP.net:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq#111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq Furthermore, as a temporary overview of sorts: MegaUpload – Closed.FileServe – Closing.Deleting files.
FileJungle – Deleting files. Locked in the U.S.. UploadStation – Locked in the U.S.. FileSonic – the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation). VideoBB – Closed! Will disappear soon. Uploaded – Banned in the U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone. FilePost – Deleting all material (will leave executables, pdfs, txts) Videoz – Closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA. 4shared – Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI. MediaFire – Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors. Pro FBI Org Torrent – Could vanish with everything within 30 days “he is under criminal investigation” Network Share mIRC – Awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrente everything. Koshiki – Operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA Shienko Box – 100% working China / Korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA ShareX BR – group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA |
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All this means is these cats will now fly lower...under the radar Nope. They'll fly straight into cliffs if they do that. There's at least one bill and one treaty out there that would severely limit the ability of these types of websites to function. ACTA and the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act" would essentially allow the government to monitor internet use. Even if they are in non-extradition countries, the amount of traffic from the US would decrease dramatically. As much as I'm against this type of enforcement of copyright law (especially when lobbyists backed by the MPAA and RIAA are dumping large amounts of money for the self-admitted purpose of bribery), the bottom line is that it works. It just brings a bunch of other possibilities with it. What a waste of post 556. Here's a picture of a gun. 
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Nope. They'll fly straight into cliffs if they do that. There's at least one bill and one treaty out there that would severely limit the ability of these types of websites to function. ACTA and the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act" would essentially allow the government to monitor internet use. Even if they are in non-extradition countries, the amount of traffic from the US would decrease dramatically. As much as I'm against this type of enforcement of copyright law (especially when lobbyists backed by the MPAA and RIAA are dumping large amounts of money for the self-admitted purpose of bribery), the bottom line is that it works. It just brings a bunch of other possibilities with it. There's something interesting WRT ACTA in the Austrian news ( FM4 ORF = radiostation of Austrian state broadcasting organization): http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1693657/ Apparently the EU regards ACTA as a means to combat organized crime...(that's a big part of their narrative it seems) I dunno but when I think of organized crime the first things that come to mind are arms dealers, drug dealers, kidnappers, red light districts, racketeers etc (the common theme being violence and bodily harm). Some smartasses + their server rooms come to mind a lot later. Funny 
On a sidenote, during the nineties (and even further) there was this organization called UCK which had branches in 3 different areas of fmr Yugoslavia (the most well known is evidently the one called KLA in English) The leadership of 2 of the branches were living in Lucerne...Everyone knew it: politicians knew it, journalists knew it, authorities knew it. Nothing happened. Since then, whenever authorities talk about some law destined to help them fight organized crime it leaves a bad taste in my mouth (and on many different levels)... 
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