File Sharing Sites Cast Themselves into Exile Over MegaUpload Bust

With the popular MegaUpload data file sharing internet site shut down , several other on-line locker service , all of which have effectual uses , are fix their lineament or close down completely in an apparent effort to avoid MegaUpload ’s fate : a forced shutdown by the United States Department of Justice , FBI , and National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center , and the arrests of its operators .

MegaUpload ’s larger - than - life creator Kim DotCom wait a bail hearing in New Zealand , and at least one of his cohort confront extradition to the United States for trial . As one might ask , this has freaked out the operators of several other locker services , which similarly allow strangers to exchange sensitive and other files , often using links that pop off after a certain length of time .

TorrentFreakcountednine storage locker Robert William Service that curtail filing cabinet communion in the wake of the MegaUpload prosecution – in some caseful by ceasing to declare oneself “ rewards ” programs that gave users a fiscal inducement to share popular content .

Here ’s how footlocker service have reply , in what can not be a happenstance :

Filesonic and FileServe : Users can only download data file they uploaded .

Uploaded.to : Users with unmasked IP addresses in the United States can no longer use it .

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VideoBB , VideoZer , FileJungle , UploadStation , FilePost : These are reportedly cease rewards programs and deleting peck of invoice and files .

Uploadbox : All file cabinet hosted on the service will be erase on January 30 .

Three big ones , RapidShare , MediaFire and Dropbox – all of which let you download entire album , discographies , moving-picture show , and so on if you have the data link where they are share or have been granted to another exploiter ’s story – appear to be mesh as normal . [ Update 1:53pm ET : A tipster contactedEvolver.fmwith news that MediaFire has apparentlydeletedall of the music from the Angrychairs Redux music blog , so it might be spooked too . ]

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“ We differ from services such as Megaupload in many crucial detail , ” said a Rapidshare spokesman in a statement ( .pdf ) provide toEvolver.fm . “ One of the principal differences between RapidShare and Service such as Megaupload is the fact that we never had the intention to abscond from legal admission of any authorization . RapidShare AG was institute in Switzerland and in fact , it was always locate at the address given in the company detail and was always run under real names without any anon. intermediate businesses . The radical measure against Megaupload were apparently require since the post there had been totally dissimilar . ”

So , Rapidshare ( and presumptively the others ) are sound because they have good contact data ? It will be interesting to see how this toy out .

Also interesting : the baffling raiment of celebrity who back MegaUpload locker service in the above TV . Will.i.am , Jamie Foxx , Kim Kardashian , Puff Daddy , and the remainder can no longer use it to “ send files across the globe ” – even if they have the rights to do so . Only a tomfool would imagine that such a massive table service consisted purely of player and movie stars sending file to each other . As such , we question whether these celebs actually understood that MegaUpload was used in the first place to “ slip ” from them , to quote the common Hollywood jargoon .

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Now that the U.S. has confound down the gantlet , we ’ll see what happens with online medium share-out web site that still allow files to pass between people .

One big question remains : Why did we involve theSOPA / PIPAanti - piracy bills in the first place , if the U.S. already had the authorization to close down MegaUpload – seemingly the entire point of those bills ? We do n’t know , and we wo n’t speculate , but someone surely will .

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