John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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You need a massive internet pipe running to your island, that's not cheap.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Just pay for tethering on your iPhone - would do the job.
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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thats not his house, ive just seen it somewhere else on the net a week or so ago.....2 secs
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by John
You need a massive internet pipe running to your island, that's not cheap.
Even then you have the small problem of where the 'pipe' terminates and having to abide by the terminating country laws; hence one of the reasons why Sealand never become a DC (they wanted to create 'lawless' hosting).
As said, easier just to host in Russia where they aren't too bother about what you host as long as you pay for it.
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Just pay for tethering on your iPhone - would do the job.
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Brett
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lol wtf?
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/26/megauploads-kim-dotcom-loses-top-ranked-position-in-call-of-duty/
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Nearly 30 days of play 
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noshua
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All that money and he sits playing MW3.
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
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Filepost is shite.
Paid for 5 days premium and I'm lucky if I get download speeds of 100kb/s.
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Demo
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Registered: 27th Sep 01
Location: south wales Drives: astra sri ecoflex
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icefilms is using rapidshare now
see how it settles in the next week
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
All that money and he sits playing MW3.
Why not? Does a lot of money mean you're not into gaming?
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Eddx14xe
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No but i would rather be outdoors on a yacht with a bunch of models than indoors playing COD.
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John
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Outdoors on a yacht would be boring after the first day.
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Eddx14xe
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Depends what you're into. Personally i hate sitting indoors all day. Could do all sorts of things with money like that.
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Demo
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Registered: 27th Sep 01
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taken from another site
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Andrew Tarantola, Jan 26, 2012 9:30 PM 138
Like Well that didn't take long.
Pirate Parties International is assembling a list of users who had lost data in MU's shutdown last week as it builds a case for an upcoming lawsuit against the Feds.
The gist of the lawsuit is that users who had been using the file-storage service of legitimate reasons were unfairly denied access to their personal files due to the FBI's actions.
"The widespread damage caused by the sudden closure of Megaupload is unjustified and completely disproportionate to the aim intended," said Pirates of Catalonia in a press statement.
PPI is currently setting up a complaint submission system and is also looking into whether the FBI's actions potentially violated US law (though you'd figure the FBI would have checked on that first). [
and also
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mega-upload will be back on line very soon not all the staff are locked up.
they got about 30 people working on this in north America.
once it comes back online all USA will be blocked from using there service
forever.
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Outdoors on a yacht would be boring after the first day.
Exactly. This guy seemed to have everything, hardly strange that he'd have some down time on Call of Duty is it, I would.
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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Wouldnt worry about it anyway, were all off to jail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcSDRKX3HTI&feature=player_embedded#!
[Edited on 27-01-2012 by Gary]
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adiohead
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Thought I recognised that guy:
http://youtu.be/UoF3mndWRh4
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N3CRO
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In less than 24 hours, Megaupload has gone from the world's largest broadcaster of pirated material to the most interesting criminal case in US digital law. Megaupload's seizure came just a few hours after the news broke that its CEO was Swizz ****ing Beatz, leaving the world's head spinning as it struggles to figure out how the guy who left his lady for Alicia Keys and produced this DMX song was at the head of a piracy ring.
Almost immediately after Megaupload was shut down, Anonymous responded by crashing the websites of the FBI, MPAA, RIAA and Universal Music Group. A lot of people in "the media" have been talking about the case today, but no one seems to have taken the time to read through the leaked 72-page US government document regarding the indictment. What with Megaupload down, we had nothing better to do so we read the whole thing cover to cover. Here are the juicy details:
- The indictment points to "popular linking" sites that help drive traffic to Megaupload. They name Ninjavideo, but Icefilms is never mentioned. How old is this thing?
- Elite employees at Megaupload had access to an unadulterated search engine of Megaupload's contents. That is ****ing awesome.
- Once Google realized what Megaupload was up to, they pulled all of their Adsense ads. Megaupload responded by developing their own advertising network called Megaclick.
- The DMCA compliant tool Megaupload had installed to help major US institutions pull copyrighted files from Mega servers was, of course, flawed. If a user uploaded something like, say, The Hangover, Megaupload would search its servers for a matching file. It would delete the link submitted despite knowing about tens or hundreds or even thousands of other links to the same file. Basically it was a super clever **** you to the copyright holder.
- The US government is clinging to evidence that Megaupload's owner, Kim Dotcom, shared the song "Nah" by 50 Cent featuring Mobb Deep in 2006. Seriously. This is one of their major claims. "On or about December 3, 2006, KIM DOTCOM distributed a Megaupload.com link to a music file entitled “05-50_cent_feat._mobb_deep-nah-c4.mp3." He is also accused of having a really ****ing stupid name.
- Kim is a resident of Hong Kong and New Zealand. He is also a citizen of Finland and Germany.
- According to the US government, Kim made $42 million off of Megaupload in 2010.
- Megaupload has servers in Virginia, DC, California, and Toronto.
- $110 million has flowed through Mega's Paypal account since 2006.
- Megaupload sought to download and re-upload all of YouTube's content onto its own site, Megavideo, to mask the pirated content that lurked beneath its front page.
- "Mega Conspiracy has paid more than $65 million to hosting providers around the world for computer leasing, hosting, bandwidth… Mega Conspiracy affirmatively chose to financially reward specific uploaders of infringing copies of copyrighted content."
- Private emails between Megaupload employees make it very clear that they were were running an illegal operation but didn't really care. In one exchange, an employee wrote, “We have a funny business... modern days pirates ” to which another responded, “We’re not pirates, we’re just providing shipping services to pirates ”
- Thanks to their rewards program for loyal uploaders, they paid out 55k to a user who had 5,845 files of Vietnamese content, at least 10 DVD rips, some porn, and (what looked like) an Italian TV series.
- Megaupload was paying Carpathia, their Virginia-based hosting company, between $700,000 and $1 million per month from a bank account in Hong Kong.
- Cogent Communications, an Atlanta-based ISP, was making a steady $1 million per month from May 2009 until February 2011.
- Megaupload spent $2.4 million on yacht rentals in June 2011 alone.
- The US government is after $175 million in assets, including 59 different bank accounts. Many of them Chinese. Two are from Citibank.
- The US is looking for at least 14 Benzes, a Predator statue, two 108 inch TVs, a Seadoo, a 1957 Cadillac, a Maserati, and a Mini Cooper.
-Kim owned a Rolls Royce Phantom with a license plate that read "GOD." Some of the tags on his other cars included: GUILTY, STONED, GOOD, CEO, MAFIA, and HACKER.
Ultimately, what we can learn from this whole Megupload fiasco is that, yes, Mega was completely aware they were running a criminal operation. They made a gigantic amount of money and it will certainly go down as one of the most insane digital operations ever. Unfortunately, its timing around the SOPA controversy will probably function as a severe detriment to the freedom of the internet, but only time will tell. For now we can only marvel at the legacy of a man who built a multi-million dollar fortune off of DVD rips.
UPDATE: The Fader is now reporting Swizz Beatz was not Megaupload's CEO, and was "never involved in any meaningful way."
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Where was the money coming in? Advertising?
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ed
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There's a tonne of advertising embedded in their video player. Even the play buttons were actually links to pop-up adverts. Their videos were encoded to a higher bit-rate in comparison to their competitors though, so you'd put up with the adverts just to watch something decent.
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