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[TheChosen]

Im just gonna copy-paste my comments from other forum

Fuck 'em. Anonymous are just bunch of man-childs who have watched V for Vendetta far too many times. They dont care about freedom of speech or anything. They just do it for the kicks they get for "sticking to the man", or to protect their source of free stuff. Besides, for people "supposedly" trying to bring freedom to the internet, who gave them permission to play the Internet police? Some day they'll go too far, and that might bring on something stronger than SOPA. Or they make permanent damage to the world system, whichever comes first.

And Im sick of people thinking these basement dwelling dorks are somekind of heroes.

And another thing: For a group thats going around threatening Government and calling for "justice" in Youtube videos like they're some sort of terrorist-faction, they're not really making that huge of a impact. So far, their big protest have involved...taking down websites. At night. Thats like ripping down posters at non-business hours when no-one's watching. Oooo, scary hackers are throwing tantrums. I've seen more threatening school girls.

[dosraider]

I usually keep far away from such topics, but here I agree 100% with TheChosen.

So, to protest against 'the powers that be' that closes down some sites, they gonna eeeuuuurrrhhh .... close down some more sites. Waw.

[Lulu_Jane]

Oh, not just that Dosraider, if they get really riled up they might go vigilante and destroy the life of someone who mildly mistreated a cat. Ugh.

I agree with TC. Although they do help get the media attention on certain things that might otherwise be ignored. But you know, they also help bring the shame.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane

Although they do help get the media attention on certain things that might otherwise be ignored.....

And so do terrorist bombers ....... maybe if they would blow up some babies or young children they would even get more attention?

*sigh*

[Lulu_Jane]

You have to get out of your parent's basement to blow up babies.

[DarthHelmet86]

Guys I think this is getting a bit silly now.

I think you will find most of us agree that Anon's reaction is about as stupid as you could get and is not helping us at all.

[Dave]

One of the things that bothers me is the removal of all those accounts, even premium, this means that many people have lost their personal data.

There's no need to hide behind a finger, the majority of people used it for piracy and/or illicit file sharing, but other used it as a service.

I'm using 4shared to store backups, I'm just lucky that my first choice wasn't Megaupload.

[Red Fortress]

Megaupload Takedown Aftershocks.

Filesonic
Fileserve
Closed affiliate rewards program
Banned any third parties downloading

Uploaded.to
Blocks all US based IP addresses

FileJungle
UploadStation
FilePost
Banned any third parties downloading
And/or
Mass deleting accounts & files
Some USA IP addresses blocked

VideoBB
VideoZer
4shared
Closed affiliate rewards program
Mass deleting accounts & files

UploadBox
x7.to
Shutting down

Sources:
http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-...action-120123/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...services.shtml
http://www.examiner.com/video-game-i...s-might-not-be

[Scatty]

That stupid *censored* at FBI are typically too dumb, or simply ignorant, to see what effect their actions would produce. Probably just ignorant, as long as their job is done, the rest of the world can go to hell. Got one chain link, and what's with the rest of the chain? Going after it all also and rip down the majority of internet content additionally? If that's the example of how the FBI works I'm surprised they're still in business. Idiots.
Excuse me.

Uploaded stuff from me at 4Shared is fortunately still there. Hope it remains, though some of you guys who uploaded stuff for the ISO Cellar there might want to check in periodically. Chances are some things there will get deleted.

[Doink]

Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane

Doink, did you seriously just compare closing down a blatant warez site with the holocaust, because that's pretty amazing.

I am in no way comparing this to any past event.
Its just a simple quote that illustrates a very common situation where people do not take action until they are directly affected.

quote from some forum in the future:

"That Abandonia site blatantly offered copyrighted games they deserved to be shut down"