Follow the traffic: What MegaUpload's downfall did to the web [GigaOM]
On January 19, the FBI raided the offices of the file sharing site MegaUpload, arresting four officers including the CEO. The company behind the site is being indicted for criminal copyright infringement and racketeering. Prior to the raid, MegaUpload was notorious for being a source for pirated television shows and movies.
As part of the FBI raid, the site was shut down. GigaOM turned to a few companies that monitor Internet traffic loads to get a glimpse of the effect the MegaUpload shutdown. Arbor Networks saw significant drops in traffic in Europe immediately following the MegaUpload shutdown (roughly 2 p.m. Eastern), and fairly significant, although less drastic, drops in the U.S.
Sandvine also shared data that suggested MegaUpload had become one of the more popular content sharing sites on the web. According to Sandvine, just under 1 percent of all web traffic in the U.S. was from MegaUpload. This was far and away the highest percentage among "storage and back-up services." Second on the list was 4Shared, which provided only .08% of all traffic.
i used megaupload for downloading roms for my rooted phone which is 100% legal now we are on 4shared which is a russian based company which i dought is going to as compliant to the FBI's request to arrest someone in their country for united states crimes
Posted by: thomas | Friday, January 27, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Megaupload knew what they were doing, and Kim Dotcom's DMCA compliance wasn't enough to fool the rest of the world in to thinking Megaupload was a good internet neighbor. However, like most of these kinds of actions, pirated material will just go even more 3rd world in to countries where ACTA isn't signed.
I can imagine North Korea will find a new source of revenue hosting this kind of internet traffic.
Posted by: Chris Denny | Monday, January 30, 2012 at 07:51 AM