Fallout: Shutdown of MegaUpload Impacting Other File-Hosting Services
By Dennis Kuba
January 24, 2012
January 24, 2012
- The recent shutdown of MegaUpload by the FBI has provoked a number of defensive responses among other sites that may have similar businesses.
- Some have turned off their services all together, while others are vocally pointing out differences between their sites and MegaUpload.
- FileSonic and FileServe are preventing users from downloading files uploaded by others. Uploaded.to has stopped accepting U.S.-based users.
- “MediaFire and RapidShare, both of which are often used to host and download copyrighted content, have gone on the offensive, giving statements to the press that attempt to draw the line between their models and what MegaUpload was doing,” reports ReadWriteWeb.
- “If the charges are to be believed, what MegaUpload was up to was particularly egregious. Still, the whole affair raises questions about where the line is. People can use any number of mechanisms for sharing files with each other, including copyrighted material,” explains the post. “If the FBI can raid MegaUpload and shut it down, what’s stopping the authorities from going after other services?”
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