Comments | leesa_perrie: Angry

leesa_perrie

Angry

Jan 19, 2012 22:08

Federal prosecutors in the US close down MegaUpload

So it seems that anyone who was using MegaUpload for legitimate reasons have just lost whatever money they paid for their account, without any warning. Hopefully they had their content backed up offline, or else they will have lost that too. Either way, this totally sucks! MegaUpload did remove ( Read more... )

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frith_in_thorns January 19 2012, 22:20:04 UTC

There's already retaliation from Anonymous.

THIS IS GOING TO END WELL. /headdesk

sholio January 19 2012, 22:27:15 UTC

*FACEPALM*

I am not on board with the U.S. government's anti-piracy crusade, but this? NOT HELPING THE CAUSE, GUYS.

leesa_perrie January 19 2012, 22:32:16 UTC

Oh great, just what we need - lots of oil thrown on the fire! *headdesk*

sholio January 19 2012, 22:24:55 UTC

... dammit! D: Of the various options out there, Megaupload was always the one that worked best for me -- the fastest, easiest to use, and least loaded down with annoying adware.

And, yeah -- this is completely unfair to anyone with paid accounts on the site ... and a really worrying trend in general.

leesa_perrie January 19 2012, 22:34:06 UTC

Totally unfair and totally wrong! And things aren't going to be helped by the retaliation that frith_in_thorns pointed out to me by a bunch of hackers!

schneefink January 19 2012, 23:12:31 UTC

And the thing that worries me most? The people they arrested were non-US citizens and arrested outside the US. I want a legal explanation of what the US agencies can and cannot do out outside the US as soon as possible.

leesa_perrie January 20 2012, 16:50:27 UTC

Same here! If the people aren't breaking their own country's laws, how can the US then arrest them for breaking US law? Does this suddenly mean that US law is supreme over the laws of all other countries and their citizens?

This doesn't make sense and is very worrying.

schneefink January 20 2012, 18:28:19 UTC

I've since read that their company had servers in the US, which means to have to obey US law as well and it makes a bit more sense. Still, I'd love to hear an expert on this.

leesa_perrie January 20 2012, 20:49:52 UTC

Ah, that make more sense. I guess lots of sites will be moving their servers away from the US now.

spikespet7 January 20 2012, 02:08:12 UTC

Oh dear lord....don't they know there is no winning side here?

The Government can't control the human population running around how do they think they can control the internet.....hmmmmm.

Will be interesting to see the consequences and fallout from all of this madness.

As for out of the country, it depends on which country and if they asked nicely first, LOL....

Kimber

leesa_perrie January 20 2012, 16:53:52 UTC

I think this is a big mess - and I think the governments of other countries need to tell the US to shove it. Sure, I can understand extradition for committing terrorist acts that affect they US, but piracy? Seriously? What next? If I steal something from an American tourist, who gets to prosecute me - the UK or US?!! (Not that I'm going to, but I'm beginning to worry about what the US seems to be getting away with here.)

EDIT: Apparently the servers were in the US meaning they have to follow US laws - that makes more sense. I guess sites will be moving out of the US now.