Gary
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It'll all just move to outer mongolia or somethhing. There are plenty of places that will let you store what you like and the US cant touch them
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Dom
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From what i remember rapidshare was deemed legal by the US government and is based in Switzerland anyways. Hopefully more RS links will appears.
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Whittie
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I've been with Rapidshare since they just had the ".de" site. A good 6 years. Hope they don't fucking close too.
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Bart
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it would appear anonymous are also fighting back by launching their own Anonymous upload site AnonyUpload
Be interesting if this takes off
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Gary
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Hope it does
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Demo
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plenty of people seem to think megaupload will be back
based on it all being thrown out of court for the same reason as rapidshare was - basically how can that site be responsible for all the users actions
watch this space i suppose
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Gary
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I think its cos they paid users for folk downloading their files. Encouraging pirate material etc
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Demo
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yes that could be the case.
i have also heard that they have not had them for breaking copyright laws but for other things such as money laundering
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Gary
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Its the US, they'll make something up to make an example of them.
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Demo
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probably
department of hollywood... opps i mean department of justice is more corrupt than anyone
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Gary
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Indeed. I don't see why they are making such a big deal of it. Software, music and fim companies make millions anyway so why not concentrate their efforts on the common man trying to get by, the peiple who actually need the help of the gvmt!
Bribes much? 
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Dave
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
it would appear anonymous are also fighting back by launching their own Anonymous upload site AnonyUpload
Be interesting if this takes off
Unfortunately another scam it seems.
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N3CRO
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Just 3 days after the shutdown of MegaUpload, and a mere 24 hours after FileSonic stop their file sharing functionality.
Rapidshare, one of the world’s largest file sharing company are allegedly the FBI’s next target. The tactic is supposedly to remove the “Top Dog” and so the “smaller” companies will feel the pressure and shut themselves down in similar fashion to FileSonic.
This action could spell bad news for File sharing fanatics as the last two major file sharing sites Rapidshare and Mediafire are under pressure. Reports are circulating across the net that the File Sharing giant is to close in the upcoming weeks and to follow the same road as Filesonic in becoming a private storage network.
Source: thehiddentech
[Edited on 24-01-2012 by TheNobleOne]
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Gary
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The US are just gonna loose money out of this.
New sites will appear, based in random countries where they can do what they like. Thus not stopping piracy and american data centres loosing customers meaning less tax for the gvmt.
Completely pointless.
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Demo
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fastpasstv is another add on worth checking out if youre missing icefilms
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Fro
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
The US are just gonna loose money out of this.
New sites will appear, based in random countries where they can do what they like. Thus not stopping piracy and american data centres loosing customers meaning less tax for the gvmt.
Completely pointless.
They won't be the only ones to adopt it though, other countries will follow suit.
This isn't the main reason they're doing it either there is a bigger picture behind it all, control the media/information and you control the world, the internet doesn't fall under that umbrella at the moment and they want it too. Days of it being a free world are numbered, they want a global nation that will put up and shut up, the internet prevents this.
Will give them power to block part of or shut down over google, youtube, wikipedia, facebook etc which we all use also.
[Edited on 26-01-2012 by Fro]
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Nismo
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He had a nice house 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089954/Megaupload-founder-Kim-Dotcom-sprang-electronic-locks-Bond-villain-lair-police-swooped.html
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N3CRO
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Icefilms is apparently using Rapidshare now.
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A2H GO
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Wonder what he needed that tennis court for, obv never used it looking at him.
Then again he probs never had time whilst maintaining his number 1 spot on COD 
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Gary
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Hope they get off with it, but i cant see it being a fair trial.
Ahh well, bring on servers in outer-mongolia where the US cant do fuck all!
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John
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You realise you need proper infrastructure to run something like that, a 56k connection in the jungle won't cut it.
What countries are advanced enough to have the infrastructure but not have laws in place to prevent it?
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ed
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That house is obscene 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
You realise you need proper infrastructure to run something like that, a 56k connection in the jungle won't cut it.
What countries are advanced enough to have the infrastructure but not have laws in place to prevent it?
Switzerland, Sweden (to an extent, although iirc they like to server raid) and obviously Russia which is where a lot of it will end up.
Edit - Anyone got info/source for Rapidshare going under? Been googling but can't really find anything.
[Edited on 26-01-2012 by Dom]
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N3CRO
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Edit - Anyone got info/source for Rapidshare going under? Been googling but can't really find anything.
Thats just speculation right now.
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Gary
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quote:
Originally posted by John
You realise you need proper infrastructure to run something like that, a 56k connection in the jungle won't cut it.
What countries are advanced enough to have the infrastructure but not have laws in place to prevent it?
When it gets to the point that 90% of the word have jumped on the US bandwagon I'm sure some countries will invest in the infrastructure.
Mr megaupload should have bought his own island and installed a load of gear. job done, not like he was short of a few quid
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