Today an indictment was issued that accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in losses from pirated films and other content. All of this was put into action today, the morning after the SOPA blackout that so many sites participated, us included. They arrested four individuals in New Zealand at the request of U.S. Officials. Two other defendants are still ‘at large’.
Prior to the site being taken down they issued this statement -
“The fact is that the vast majority of Mega’s Internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch.”
Megaupload was pretty unique to the community. It received high-profile support from celebrities, musicians and other content producers who are often victims of piracy and copyright infringement. It was endorsed by the likes of Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys and Kanye West to name a few.
This will be a huge blow to the Android community and the developers that we love and support so much. If you happen to be a developer with your work hosted on their site, you better get to work and upload it somewhere else and update you links, cause Megaupload is gone, at least for now.
Source: ABCnews
On a side note. If any of you amazing developers are in need of a new location, we can host for you and have a webpage dedicated to your work. www.communityrelease.com. Feel free to check out the developer page section to request an account and we will work as fast as we can to get you up and running.
Also, if you haven’t already gotten involved with the stop SOPA and PIPA actions you need to. This is exactly the sort of thing that will happen to all sites that have anything on them that they deem is a piracy or infringement violation. Head to Google to take action.
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Plenty of other filehosting sites out there. Megaupload was on my avoid list anyways… wouldn’t call it a blow to the android community, I would call it blow to the pocket books of those that advertise for them…
Most definitely. It will still take many developers a while to get their ROMs and other works up in other locations. Depending on how much they saved personally, some ROMs might have to be looked for again to make them available. Just more work for the community that used Megaupload exclusively for distribution.
Ahh, I didn’t think about already hosted content. Hopefully everyone has mirrors setup or can host else where.
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Google helped me find files on mega, so they should incarcerate the execs at Google. Also, I used internet explorer on my windows computer, so they should get those guys at Microsoft too. lastly, Comcast gave me the pipe to get the files, so I suppose they should round them up as well.
Ever day I had to send a take down letter to them.
People giving away my apps,music,movies, for free.
Cutting into my money.
It cost me time and money to make products.
We completely understand. None of us want to take money out the peoples hands that work so hard to earn it. I have a personal stance on things that don’t always jive with others. As a whole though, those people that work equally as hard but do not require or request payment are also suffering the consequences for the actions of piracy. Ultimately many of us would be happy if prescreening was done and pirated material was just denied, instead of shutting down a site that many use for legal free distribution of material. Sorry to hear you were effected so negatively by the world my friend.
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