A sad day : (

disgraceful behaviour by the authorities….if mega got taken down …whos next …. No Internet Censure….. SAVE OUR INTERNET

Never liked Mega Video because of the 70mins limit.

How long before the next Megavideo appears? In fact there are many more similar sites out there (Videobb, anyone?) .

If something can be seen and/or heard, it can be recorded, copied and transmitted. And it gets easier with each passing year and each new advance in technology – hardware, data encryption and software usability .

Copyright is dead, like it or not.

My Question – Say for Example you pay a Sky Subscription – it shows series X over a 5 month timeframe. So you’ve paid Sky, Sky has paid whoever it pays for the Series – therefore why can I not go online and watch the entire serverx as shown in US over a weekend – they still get my money, correct?

Explains why I couldn’t watch anything last night

i don’t even use megavideo to watch tv or movies, i just use ******* :)

I’ve just a couple points to make. Firstly, why are they trying to push for SOPA and PIPA so much when they can obviously shut down these big sites without it? Even arrested guys in New Zealand and other countries.

Second, I hate the way they call us all pirates. I pay for sky plus tv license. I just started watching shows like Homeland which started on RTE 2. What’s the difference if I watch these shows ahead of time online? I’m already paying sky and RTE for these shows, so how are they losing out?
Just show these shows at the same time everywhere. They did it for Lost and 24 and I stopped downloading these shows because it was just easier to watch them on telly.

A pirate is a person that download these shows and movies, put them into dvd sleeves and sells them at street corners and markets. NOT the people just watching online.

I forgot my third point :)

Oh yeah, big fucking deal. Videobb, Novamov, honestly too many to mention will just take up the slack. Oh and when these sites are taken down, the time taken for these sites to get more popular other sites will be growing to fill the gap.

Soon our comments will be Blanked out.

Louis C.K. had it right – I recently bought his latest show for 5 US dollars. I never paid for any of his stuff before (it’s all on Youtube anyway) so I felt it was about time I gave him a few quid. It seems I’m not alone – he made about half a million dollars out of it, and every penny went to him, no label or corporation taking a cut.

I, like most people who contributed, probably never would have heard of him without the ‘free’ clips first, though… so it seems piracy does work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/business/media/louis-ck-plays-a-serious-joke-on-tv-the-media-equation.html?pagewanted=all

For the record, I don’t think pirates online should be making a living from this endeavour. If you are going to rob the revenue for something else, you shouldn’t be benefiting financially for the privilege..

But being able to try before you buy I have no objections to. If I like an album or a tv series, or a movie – then I will buy it, because I feel it was worth the money. Surely that should improve the quality of movies and perhaps reduce the amount of woeful you know what out there?

I’m just pirating a hollywood movie as we speak and I’m gonna post it to a friend. Take that An Post, your in deep shit city with the FBI now.

Protect our Internet. ….

Best way I could see is, DO not host in the US and so not allow the US access to a site, that will keep the Feds away

Earlier this week I downloaded Snow Patrol’s latest album for free. Tonight I paid them €50 to see their live show in the O2.

That is the new business model for music, like it or not that is what the masses demand and they WILL be satisfied one way or the other.

I’m predicting it now yo. This is the beginning of a ridiculously huge internet war. smh

Rapidshare is still running :-) and when they close it something else will open up :-)

so they end up shutting down all the sites we love what then?

None of the bankers got their cars or property seized or confiscated in this way and they cost tax payers even more than the US claim these guys cost record and movies companies. I hope anonymous go to town on the whole lot of them as its clear we live in times now where the law works mainly for the corporate good and not the tax payer.

FUCK YOU!!! US, FBI and Hollywood.

Only started using it last week. Really hope I got all the episodes of dexter series six downloaded before the site was brought down :(

These lads, are legends.
Support their actions over the last few years 100%.

They are criminals in a corrupt and unjustified system, only there.

Amazed and appalled at the ignorance displayed by some people here. You just don’t get it so here it is in very simple terms…

1. It takes a lot of time, money and the creative efforts of HUNDREDS of people to make a movie. So you want all that for nothing….

2. It’s difficult to put a cost on making an album or set of songs. It depends how long it takes to make it(them) and…how long is a piece of string?! At iTunes and other sites you can listen to short extracts of the songs and then purchase only the ones you want…cheaply!

3. If you keep taking it for nothing it will eventually die! No music, No movies. Not that people won’t want to make them…the mechanisms for bringing creative efforts to reality will have been damaged and destroyed by the SCABS who take it for free…steal it!

These are industries involving people and jobs. If you want to steal their stuff and destroy the livelihoods of those who work to entertain you, then you say much more about yourself than you realise.

The idea that free access to unlimited hours of television and film content as an non revocable right is clearly wrong. I have no defense of large corporations overcharging for their goods but the aspirations of many artists to make an honest living creating content for people to watch and enjoy is seriously undermined when people expect to be able to enjoy it for nothing, do those same people work? When they expend, time and energy doing something in which another derives a clear benefit do they not expect to get paid or are they happy to allow others enjoy the fruit of their labor for nothing. Furthermore unlike a lot of goods and services, music and filmed entertainment is often good value, a 2 hr experience of watching a desired film or TV series is available legally for less than the price of a cup of tea, furthermore paying for it ensures that does who aspire to create similar content do not have to be independently wealthy to pursue such an ambition as a livliehood, people should absolutely resist any attmepts to be ripped off but eschewing a sense of just entitlement to unlimited free access to the fruits of other peoples labour is not a sustainable argument, if you expect to get paid when you create something of value for another, do you believe such a right is exclusive to you, will if you dont then you have to appreciate you need to pay something ( aint it is increasingly less with all of the subscription options) for the enjoyment your derive from listening of watching their work. Im glad mega video is gone, it was pure shite service anyway and the idea that they deserved to make millions out of illegally broadcasting other peoples stuff is clearly wrong as well.

damn sopa, but they have recently withdrawn sopa for now to make a few changes to it because even the people behind sopa admitted there were problems with it, so yes its been slowed down but we haven’t seen the last of it

i’m just gonna say it guys and sorry for my english i am not american….i really don’t think this FBI folks have fully realized how many millions of people they’ve pissed off all around the entire planet. i was on one of the anonymous video yesterday..and well… in less than 24 hours hackers,crackers and common internet people from each and every corner of the world, more than 50 nations involving all the major ones of europe asia and sud america ( but even north ) i counted them and it was just yesterday, have gathered to strike down with the most fearsome cyber attack the world has ever seen since the internet started…if theese guys will not give back megavideo/megaupload and get theyr hands off of the free internet i tell you they will face the most deadly and relentless cyber force existent and the attacks by it will be something that will let them regret baddly the old days of the cold war…people are DEADLY serius about this matter outside US..i can smell it in the air and i’m just a common random internet guy but i do fell the urge to let you notice about this in case it’s not evident enough.. people out there are exasperated by this…the thing with the FBI chief it’s just the begginning i can tell…and do you really think arresting some kids here and there will get you somewere? c’mon you arrest 1? 10? 100? 1000? i hope you realize
there will still be tens of millions out there whooping your ass really bad 24/7 from every direction. it is really worth risking all of this ( see the thing with the afore mentioned fbi chief) just to deny the little people some free enterteinment? the mega corporations nor the artists will ever EVER die becouse of this, it’s not like this kind of sites are a new thing..thy existed since a dacade..it’s how the market has evolved c’mon you cannot stop this, you will only hurt yourself, it’s just so stupid…but i know how stubborn the governament (espacially the US one) can be over such petty things at times so..

don’t say i didn’t warn you.

Good. These guys did nothing to stop a film I worked on for over 8 years being robbed and distributed for free over their site and made money of it. If you think these guys are some kind of Heros and continue to support sites like this by stealing hard work by others, you won’t have any more films or tv of any quality to watch.

Sad day for the Megaupload employees, but its not so bad for the rest if us really. Anonymous have our backs and there are still a million other sites and methods to stream or download stuff (for free – who the hell was paying to use Megaupload anyway!??).

It would have been much worse if they’d targeted the more popular free sites. That would have had more impact on a whole. Damn it, I’m giving them ideas now.

A a huge movie / music fan! The crew of the film get paid week to week, the musician gets a record deal, gets tour dates, etc

Times are tight , i am all up for ,these sites , and i dont agree with paul, that it means that we wont get quality movies / shows anymore as there is always an investor that wants to invest in a worth while movie script or tv series! I think paul you should change profession

Have you ever heard of a poor person that works in the “movie” buisness ??

as in shouldnt you at least get a piece of the pie from there advertising. They are nothing with out film makers but film maker will eventually be nothing without them.

Shouldn’t it be ‘the site was making money from pirated material’?

That’s sad…since it’s all BS…SOPA/PIPA were junk + MU arrest was unfair + I don’t think swizz he has any legal connections to MU…imo it was all fabbed up to get other celebrity endorsements.

p.s. looks like someone is pissed – FBI vs ANONYMOUS video:
http://www.peeje.com/anonymous-hackers-we-legion-211/