Has megavideo closed down?

Megaupload has been shut down by the FBI. That means its affiliates are down as well (Megavideo, Megapix, etc).

Megaupload, one of the largest onilne storage and file delivery services on the Internet, has been shut down due to allegations of piracy. The FBI and the Justice Department, citing some $500 million in lost income of copyright holders from pirated music, films and other media hosted on the site, indicted six defendants, according to a press release. None of them are American citizens. The people named include:

Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;

Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;

Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;

Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;

Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;

Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.

The six, along with the corporations Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited, have been charged with racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement. Each count of conspiracy to commit racketeering and conspiracy to commit money laundering could land the defendants as much as 20 years in prison; the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement could net them an additional five years per count.

Yes, it will be a really hot 2012 for Internet. Luckily Anonymous group is fighting for the group. In an hour, even the whitehouseorg website was down.

And what about the money we paid to watch stuff on Megavideo?

Netflix

Obama voted against this one didn't he? This was 100% act of the senate who had the big companies in their pocket paying to get this passed.

I wish Obama would worry about Iran & less about myself watching Field of Dreams for the 30th time...

Yes it has been closed down. I just found out. My life is doomed.

It has. see? http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/onplj/...

Blame the government..

it looks that way

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/technology/indic...