# FBI shuts down MegaUpload, arrested the heads and seized $50 million in assets
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 19, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866 "2012-01-19T12:39:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/21 "2012-01-19T20:41:50Z")
[http://109.236.83.66](http://109.236.83.66)
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### Author:  [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/22 "2012-01-19T22:19:13Z")
I gotta find a new place to host my cracked gmail app files now ☹
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/23 "2012-01-19T22:55:47Z")
I’ve watched a handful of movies hosted by them,it was a decent site with the exception of the 72 minute cap on free videos. I’m shocked that TPB isn’t down,they have some good tweets.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/24 "2012-01-20T03:17:16Z")
:lol: Cyber war
Some kids are running a DoS attack agaisn’t some public facing not very important websites…Hardly a cyber war :lol:
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### Author:  [@Jimshorts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimshorts)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/25 "2012-01-20T05:02:55Z")
Great taste in cars.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/26 "2012-01-20T06:04:42Z")
You can’t take down these sites. There is backups and them arresting people will still allow the domain to get back up. MegaUpload/MegaVideo is already back up.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/27 "2012-01-20T06:11:41Z")
Start Megauploads move to somewhere that won’t extradite you(Singapore)
win
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/28 "2012-01-20T06:19:16Z")
Kim won’t be going on the Gumball again anytime soon…
[https://youtu.be/fWSFtpP4Nbs](https://youtu.be/fWSFtpP4Nbs)
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/29 "2012-01-20T06:20:53Z")
Just kind of crazy that the US seized a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright violation claim. If that doesn’t scare you then you probably don’t understand it.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/30 "2012-01-20T06:20:55Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> Start Megauploads move to somewhere that won’t extradite you(Singapore)
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> win
Singapore? What are you gonna do, run it off a cable modem? Lol.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/31 "2012-01-20T06:24:43Z")
Just kind of crazy that the US seized a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright violation claim. If that doesn’t scare you then you probably don’t understand it.
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### Author:  [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/32 "2012-01-20T06:42:46Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Just kind of crazy that the US seized a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright violation claim. If that doesn’t scare you then you probably don’t understand it.
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### Author:  [@k.man](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/k.man)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/33 "2012-01-20T06:53:07Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> :lol: Cyber war
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> Some kids are running a DoS attack agaisn’t some public facing not very important websites…Hardly a cyber war :lol:
> **[Hacktivists hit back at FBI, Justice Dept](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-20/hacktivists-attack-us-department/3784456?site=sydney)**
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> The battle between US authorities and online powerhouses has taken another turn, with activist network Anonymous claiming responsibility for an attack which brought down the FBI and US Department of Justice websites.
> Updated January 20, 2012 17:08:18
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> The battle between US authorities and online powerhouses has taken another turn, with activist network Anonymous claiming responsibility for an attack which brought down the FBI and US Department of Justice websites.
> Anonymous says it launched a denial of service attack to cripple government and music industry websites in a protest against an FBI crackdown on popular file-sharing website [megaupload.com](http://megaupload.com).
> The two government sites were up and running again after several hours.
… These are hardly not very important sites at all :picard:
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/34 "2012-01-20T06:54:36Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> Just kind of crazy that the US seized a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright violation claim. If that doesn’t scare you then you probably don’t understand it.
Yeah, this is extremely irritating. Gizmodo reported megaupload accounted for 1/4 of all corporate traffic, even more than dropbox. US needs to focus on the US before it starts fucking with other countries. They also shouldn’t be allowed to internationally fuck with things.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/35 "2012-01-20T06:55:40Z")
> **[Internet in Singapore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Singapore)**
>
> In Singapore, there are 11,512,900 broadband Internet subscribers (as of February 2015). There are three major Internet service providers in Singapore, namely, Singtel, StarHub, and M1 and other growing providers like MyRepublic, Colt and ViewQwest. Over the years, the Singapore Government has been promoting the usage of broadband Internet access, as part of its Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) initiative. Internet access is readily available in Singapore, with a connectivity rate of over 99%. Re...
btw
I said live there lots of places to host content 😉
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/36 "2012-01-20T06:56:10Z")
This isn’t crazy at all. Read the indictment: [http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment](http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment)
We’re talking money laundering and paying people to contribute copyrighted content knowingly, copying video from users on YouTube and bringing it over to their website, etc.
We’re talking US banks, servers, citizens.
This was done through due process over time, not some SOPA-style kill switch. This is far from out-of-the-ordinary even considering the international nature. Same methods used to take down organized crime for some of the same reasons.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/37 "2012-01-20T06:57:54Z")
> [@k.man](#):
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> [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-20/hacktivists-attack-us-department/3784456/?site=sydney](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-20/hacktivists-attack-us-department/3784456/?site=sydney)
Running a lame denial of a service attack isn’t a cyber war…they’re sending traffic to websites that don’t do anything useful.
Everytime Anonymous does this lots of idiots get busted because they have no idea what they’re doing.
and per the article “The two government sites were up and running again after several hours.”
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/38 "2012-01-20T06:58:46Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> [Internet in Singapore - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Singapore)
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> btw
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> I said live there lots of places to host content 😉
lol nice
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/39 "2012-01-20T07:01:06Z")
Merged threads.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/40 "2012-01-20T07:01:25Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> This isn’t crazy at all. Read the indictment: [Mega Indictment | PDF | Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act | Copyright Infringement](http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment)
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> We’re talking money laundering and paying people to contribute copyrighted content knowingly, copying video from users on YouTube and bringing it over to their website, etc.
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> We’re talking US banks, servers, citizens.
>
> This was done through due process over time, not some SOPA-style kill switch. This is far from out-of-the-ordinary even considering the international nature. Same methods used to take down organized crime for some of the same reasons.
Well every country has different computer laws about the internet…
What if Germany went after you over some graphics on this website? lol then hauled you over to Germany
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