On April 26, 2012, Megaupload data negotiations began. Carpathia
reported that maintaining the data costs over 9,000 USD a day, and
wanted to seek a formal resolution on whether to delete the data or
release it to interested parties. United States district court Judge
Liam O'Grady seemed sympathetic to Carpathia's plight and ordered all
parties to return to the negotiating table.
Oops! Carpathia, in the attempt to
relieve themselves of the backbreaking cost to maintain thousands of
servers - yes thousands - they instead got the wrong sort of attention
when the DoJ pointed out that 35 million USD had been paid by Megaupload
to Carpathia, and
alleged that Carpathia wasn't as innocent as they were portraying
themselves.
Meanwhile, the fallout of Megaupload's
shutdown has brought the self-imposed limitations of other file sharing
services. FileSonic.com, FileServe.com, FileJungle.com,
Uploadstation.com, x7.to and 4Shared.com, withdrew the ability to share
links to files, canceled affiliate programs and/or began to allow users
to only download what they themselves uploaded. Other files hosting
services blocked access to users in the United States or those with US
based IP addresses; Uploaded.to and Turbobit.net (a torrent indexing
services) began blocking access to U.S. vistors in February. BTJunkie,
another popular torrent indexing site, completely shut down of their own
accord in Februrary as well, as did QuickSilverScreen, a streaming
video link site.
MediaFire and RapidShare spokespeople
have stated theses companies are not concerned because file hosting is a
legitimate business and Megaupload essentially got greedy and careless.
RapidShare spokesperson pointed out that Microsoft's SkyDrive also
operates in the same way of other file hosting services.
So
even though, some of us may have lost access and convenience, there are
still options out there. And more to come. Where one service shuts
down, another one starts up.
May 13, 2012
Megaupload Fallout in the File Hosting Arena
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