# FBI shuts down MegaUpload, arrested the heads and seized $50 million in assets
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**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")
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### Author:  [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/121 "2012-10-04T21:07:58Z")
It’s only a matter time till he winds up jacking it in San Diego.
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### Author:  [@Driftacular](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Driftacular)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/122 "2012-10-04T21:23:40Z")
^ LOL,
waiting for the remixs of this song…
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/123 "2013-01-18T12:17:50Z")
Mega is back…this time potentially killing copryright laws:
> So what’s to stop Mega from going down just the way Megaupload did? Mega’s privacy, which is a no-foolin’ stroke of genius. See, all of your files are encrypted locally before they’re uploaded, so Mega has no idea what anything is. It could be family photos or work documents, or an entire discography of your favorite band. Poof: online and easy to share. And importantly, Mega doesn’t have the decription key necessary to get in. See? It’s a masterstroke of copyright subversion.
> To explain further, Mega’s terms say that nobody can access your stuff without your personal decryption key. And they don’t have it. Only you do. The company does, however, stipulate in the privacy policy that they might cooperate with law enforcement. But big deal; what are they going to turn over? When Twitter and Facebook cooperate with the authorities, they have access to your data. All Mega has is an encrypted file.
> **[Hands On With Kim Dotcom's New Mega: This Service Could Dismantle Copyright...](https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-kim-dotcoms-new-mega-this-service-could-5977163?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow)**
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> Kim Dotcom's Mega officially launches tomorrow, but we're already in. From the membership plans we showed you this morning, the service might look like it's just another online storage locker like Dropbox or Google Drive. (Update: It's live.) But...
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/124 "2013-01-18T12:27:16Z")
i read about this a few weeks ago. i wonder if it will work
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/125 "2013-01-18T12:31:59Z")
Well, seeing as how it’s no different than any other cloud storage sevice like drive, dropbox or [box.net](http://box.net), I think it will work just fine.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/126 "2013-01-18T12:32:48Z")
I know they have a solid legal team so it should work.
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/127 "2013-01-18T12:34:51Z")
Lol yeah well see for how long though… on the other hand :tup: for now
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/128 "2013-01-18T12:38:20Z")
The whole argument in the past was megaupload was aware of the content.
Now they can’t be and just rewrite their terms of service saying its on the user.
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/129 "2013-01-18T12:46:58Z")
If it was that easy, dont you think they would have headed that way before the busts…
LE doesnt like when you circumvent the law… and granted the complexities (international/definitional/etc) of this is way beyond anything anyone on here can understand, I bet its just a matter of time before authorities try to find a new way to break this up. I understand that what theyre doing NOW is perfectly legal, but I dont think weve heard the end of this if theyre still doing the volume they had been.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/130 "2013-01-18T12:50:14Z")
I’m just not seeing it. I upload a black box of copyrighted data, then want to provide it for the world to download. To do that I have to release the key. MPAA/RIAA can see the key with everyone else, so they can prove what’s in the file, and then can go to Mega and demand a takedown and the IP info for the person who uploaded it.
I guess it might legally isolate Mega (as long as they continue to comply with takedown notices) but how this “kills copyright laws” seems like a stretch almost as massive as Kim’s pants.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/131 "2013-01-18T12:51:36Z")
> [@MOBOOST4U](#):
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> If it was that easy, dont you think they would have headed that way before the busts…
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> LE doesnt like when you circumvent the law… and granted the complexities (international/definitional/etc) of this is way beyond anything anyone on here can understand, I bet its just a matter of time before authorities try to find a new way to break this up. I understand that what theyre doing NOW is perfectly legal, but I dont think weve heard the end of this if theyre still doing the volume they had been.
It’s really straight forward
All the megaupload stuff was conspiracy to commit crimes it was based around “internal” emails and them knowing illegal content was hosted.
At this point its like the motion picture companies trying to file charges against timewarner for your actions…
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/132 "2013-01-18T13:01:25Z")
And lol @ people paying for a service to get free content… again, content creators are going to love that.
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/133 "2013-01-18T13:08:32Z")
Uh people pay for usenet and crap now
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2013, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fbi-shuts-down-megaupload-arrested-the-heads-and-seized-50-million-in-assets/219866/134 "2013-01-23T07:08:06Z")
This is interesting:
> [@Engadget](#):
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> More interesting than the encryption scheme is a projected service product called Megakey, a revenue engine for free content. At least ingenious, Megakey is described as user-installed software (labeled malware by some) that generates advertising revenue for the site by hijacking ad slots on other sites. If launched, Megakey would take ad blocking in a new direction by removing the original ads from a portion of the sites visited by a Mega user, and replacing them with Mega advertisers.
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> Put aside ethics for a moment. This contrivance refutes the essential internet advertising model, which sells “inventory” computed as pageviews multiplied by ad units on the page. If there is a revolutionary aspect to Megakey, it is the substitution of one pair of eyeballs across many sites for thousands of eyeballs on one site. If the product materializes, I can imagine Mega developing an understanding of each user based on the unencrypted personal information it harvests, then selling each person’s eyeballs at premium rates.
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> If only kidnapping other websites weren’t questionably legal. Or is it? Simple ad blocking is not currently challenged, despite accomplishing the same chief disruptions as Megakey – altering the display of another owner’s website, and deflecting revenue from that owner.
> **[Editorial: Kim Dotcom, noisy rogue with a commonplace startup idea](https://www.engadget.com/2013-01-21-editorial-kim-dotcom-noisy-rogue-with-a-commonplace-startup-id.html)**
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> Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing has traditionally operated on a narrow ledge between perceptions of legality and illegality. The legitimacy of underlying file-transfer technology is never in dispute, though media companies might hate the unleashing...
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