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Megaupload Shut Down, 6 Arrests. • Page 8
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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senso-ji 10,271 posts
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Registered 13 years agomeme wrote:
He still is safe - unless he downloaded illegal (i.e. obscene stuff) content.
I had a mate who used Megaupload over torrents as he believed it was completely safe and there would be no way of tracing him. -
He's safe to the extent that no-one will bother hunting him down for grabbing rar'ed cam vids, but he thought it was absolutely untraceable, that he was some sort of elite piracy ninja. -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI used Megaupload, rapidshare, and Oron as I found newsgroups and torrents to be a pain in the arse and prone to speed issues.
D/L was fast enough and stability was better plus there was less fake/virus/shite that came through. -
MrDigital 1,885 posts
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Registered 11 years agosenso-ji wrote:
Unsafe if you downloaded from Megaupload?
meme wrote:
He still is safe - unless he downloaded illegal (i.e. obscene stuff) content.
I had a mate who used Megaupload over torrents as he believed it was completely safe and there would be no way of tracing him.
Tomorrow's news: "500m people being charged by the FBI for breaking copyright laws!" -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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So, it's ok to get child porn or no? -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIt is like the ancient riddle.....
If you wank over a picture of yourself as a baby in th bath are you really a paedo.....? -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoHow can that be an ancient riddle if it involves photographs? -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI've got this vague idea that just downloading pirated stuff is not actually illegal. Using P2P is illegal because you are by design also uploading at the same time (hence court cases where "mum of 3 gets sued for £10k for downloading Katy Perry" etc), and that means you're distributing and that definately is illegal.#
If just downloading was illegal, you'd break the law just by watching youtube most of the time.
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoTechnically you're not copying anything... therefore no copyright infringement. With streamed stuff anyway. -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Chopsen wrote:
Isn't it more the case that it is illegal but the "value" assigned to someone watching one unpaid-for copy of KungFu Panda doesn't warrant anyone pursuing the issue? P2P makes it easier for prosecutors to make a case as you're "making the content available for others".
I've got this vague idea that just downloading pirated stuff is not actually illegal. Using P2P is illegal because you are by design also uploading at the same time (hence court cases where "mum of 3 gets sued for £10k for downloading Katy Perry" etc), and that means you're distributing and that definately is illegal.#
If just downloading was illegal, you'd break the law just by watching youtube most of the time.
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Lukey__b 3,716 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI think it's definitely legal to view a stream. It's the uploader/streamer that is breaking the law, just as Chopsen says.
I guess it's kind of like a pub putting the football on without the right paper work (they need some sort of agreement to show it I think) - the viewer isn't doing anything wrong, it's guy showing it. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@Rhythm
Probably. What actually gets prosecuted (and what is widely regarded as being "wrong") doesn't always fit with the letter of the law anyway. In the UK it's still technically illegal to copy songs from a CD to your MP3 player, even for personal use. This is one of many reasons there copyright law's being reformed in the UK - it no longer fits with what most people are doing or expect.
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDid you have legitimate stuff stored on Megaupload? Too bad. -
Tom_Servo wrote:
I didn't realise that kind of affiliate program existed. Makes perfect sense why it was targeted now.
Other sites are blocking IPs from the US
I haven't heard of most of these, so I don't know how significant it is. Still, if the real big ones (Rapidshare and Mediafire, I guess) start doing this too then it's job done for the American authorities, really. -
Articulate-Troll 3,098 posts
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Registered 14 years agoMediafire's pretty good -- even lets you download multiple files simultaneously. Shame not many people seem to use it. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTom_Servo wrote:
What kind of a moron relies on a cloud service that is totally out of their own realm of control as their ONLY storage for important business files and documents.
Did you have legitimate stuff stored on Megaupload? Too bad.
If its that important back it up on an external hard drive which are (were) about £70 for 1.5-2tb space thesedays. -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoEven cops are up for a bit of trolling...
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Rapidshare have now introduced a limit of 30kpbs a sec for free users which pretty much means they are out of the game.
I found that MU and RS were the best service for UK users, the rest are just too slow to be considered, which means that is basically the end of this sort of thing. -
merryterry 6 posts
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Registered 10 years agoAnotherIdiot wrote:
Rapidshare have now introduced a limit of 30kpbs a sec for free users which pretty much means they are out of the game.
I found that MU and RS were the best service for UK users, the rest are just too slow to be considered, which means that is basically the end of this sort of thing.
Well that's no surprise, since Megaupload got dragged in this whole filesharing and copyright infringing and whatever else they did mess the loads of people who used megaupload filesharing and other stuff are looking for some replacements.
Hence probably the 30 seconds limit they introduced for Rapidshare.I suppose it's not even worth it to take a look into some other smaller sharing sites, who knows how long they'll last.
But anyhow since we're talking about Megaupload, I was looking into some alternatives to it just the other day and came across some discussion on a sharing technology that'll be launched by audials.com.
It's supposed to be a good alternative to megaupload and even to filesharing sites.
Now that's all I've got on this whole audials file sharing thing, so I was wondering if you guys have got any idea what's it all about. Heard anything on this or it's just some bogus talk? -
Didn't see this posted elsewhere on here but looks like The Pirate Bay may be up for the chop soon, no doubt leading the way for most if not all torrent/magnet sites to be blocked.
Seems like the Great Firewall of China is about to get a British annex -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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The specifics of TPB aside, this stands as more of a test case. If TPB can be blocked then so can other sources of casual piracy. The more determined out there will do it anyway, paying for newsgroup access and whatnot. The average torrent user isn't the kind of person that will install privacy guards so they're going to be unlikely to start arsing about with DNS and VPN tunnels -
merryterry 6 posts
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Registered 10 years agoWhaat?Not TPB as well.. -
merryterry 6 posts
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Registered 10 years agomerryterry wrote:
AnotherIdiot wrote:
Rapidshare have now introduced a limit of 30kpbs a sec for free users which pretty much means they are out of the game.
I found that MU and RS were the best service for UK users, the rest are just too slow to be considered, which means that is basically the end of this sort of thing.
Well that's no surprise, since Megaupload got dragged in this whole filesharing and copyright infringing and whatever else they did mess the loads of people who used megaupload filesharing and other stuff are looking for some replacements.
Hence probably the 30 seconds limit they introduced for Rapidshare.I suppose it's not even worth it to take a look into some other smaller sharing sites, who knows how long they'll last.
But anyhow since we're talking about Megaupload, I was looking into some alternatives to it just the other day and came across some discussion on a sharing technology that'll be launched by audials.com.
It's supposed to be a good alternative to megaupload and even to filesharing sites.
Now that's all I've got on this whole audials file sharing thing, so I was wondering if you guys have got any idea what's it all about. Heard anything on this or it's just some bogus talk?
Oh well, up until now looks like this is just some useless rant since I didn't really manage to dig up much on this.
I mean I stumbled upon some audials.com community but that one looks nothing like your average file sharing site so suppose it's got nothing to do with this mysterious new filesharing audials technology.
It just looks like some place for sharing playlists or something like that and there's nothing related to some cool new filesharing tech round there.
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoRhythm wrote:
No, but make it hard enough and the software will start to come with all of those sort of things built in.
The average torrent user isn't the kind of person that will install privacy guards so they're going to be unlikely to start arsing about with DNS and VPN tunnels -
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