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NEWS: Megaupload Site Shut Down Partly Due to Fruits Basket Anime

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02 AND Tamers is already found on the video section of this site... Another example of not trying :/ For me though, my bone to pick is that I don't JUST want to watch it, I want to OWN it. And Toei will probably never allow uncut/subbed boxsets...

I was talking about the FIRST season.

Sheleigha wrote:

Checking other forums etc, I see the whining beging "WUUUUUT WHERE DO I GET MY MP3S AND ANIME NOW?!" -_-.... It's like, once one site goes down (MangaFox for example) suddenly it's the end of the world, and no other website exists... I don't know why I even bother reading some of their comments...

You'll keep reading the comments so that you can continue to put words the their mouths and ignore the valid issue that the content, legal or not, on that site is no longer available.

I think I read these things, in hope that someone will make some kind of rational comment. It just bothers me with how used to getting stuff handed for free people have become. It's as if the idea of buying stuff isn't even there (if they ever even wanted to...) Just sounds like a lot of kids who lost their 'freebies'. Of course I wasn't even going to mention that other websites exist... I don't want to point out common sense of bothering to look >_>

While losing work is extremely annoying, you have nothing to blame but your own irresponsibility for that. If you value something, you back it up, preferably in more than one place. 7 gigabytes is a trivial amount to back up, either by external HD, burning to DVDs, or online backup. If you chose not to back things up, you really have no right to complain.

Except.. that's exactly what they did. Megaupload is a file sharing site, nothing more. Was it largely used for illegal file sharing? Maybe. Probably. But any file sharing site will be used for that purpose, it's impossible to stop, so that fact by itself is not a good argument against Megaupload.

And so what if the executives had stupid license plates and liked to spend money? That's not illegal, nor is it proof of wrongdoing. "The guy in charge is an ass" is hardly a good legal argument.

It's sort of hard to back up via a dead laptop. And I'm not knowledgeable to where you are, but where I am, it costs an arm and a leg for storage media. Any sort of storage media at that.

I'm assuming you didn't read it?

It's sort of hard to back up via a dead laptop. And I'm not knowledgeable to where you are, but where I am, it costs an arm and a leg for storage media. Any sort of storage media at that.

Underlined....What do you think I did? Then this happened.

I imagine if YT can do it, surely it can be done...

peachsncreamsoda wrote:

I imagine if YT can do it, surely it can be done...

Youtube doesn't do it. Some youtube higher up was quoted as estimating that 80% of the content on their site is illegal, something Viacom pointed out when they sued youtube for tons of money. And despite the fact that youtube has even created a bunch of automatic bots to locate copyrighted content (which often cause trouble for people who post legitimate content), I can still easily find thousands of illegal vids with no trouble whatsoever.

peachsncreamsoda wrote:

I imagine if YT can do it, surely it can be done...

Youtube doesn't do it. Some youtube higher up was quoted as estimating that 80% of the content on their site is illegal, something Viacom pointed out when they sued youtube for tons of money. And despite the fact that youtube has even created a bunch of automatic bots to locate copyrighted content (which often cause trouble for people who post legitimate content), I can still easily find thousands of illegal vids with no trouble whatsoever.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

TitanXL wrote: I'm curious how this effects people who used it legitimately, though. As a backup for important files, documents, and so forth. I wonder if they can get in trouble now that people are being denied their perfectly legitimate files, some they might not have the originals of anymore and need. I've also heard of people using it to sent projects to clients and whatnot because it's pretty much stupidproof and quick, and e-mails have attachment file-limits.

Also, a lot of Android developers used the service, too because the reasons you listed. Yea...I've been reading various comments on how pissed people are because they have lost their legitimate work thanks to the shutdown.

That's why you have more then one copy of your picture documents and all that. Make backups and backups of those. This is part of the problem with having your stuff in the cloud. If they get shut down or out of business there is no way of getting it back.

That's why you have more then one copy of your picture documents and all that. Make backups and backups of those. This is part of the problem with having your stuff in the cloud. If they get shut down or out of business there is no way of getting it back.

jsc315 wrote:

That's why you have more then one copy of your picture documents and all that. Make backups and backups of those. This is part of the problem with having your stuff in the cloud. If they get shut down or out of business there is no way of getting it back.

At some point during practical execution that creating backups becomes redundant, costly, and basically too much of a hassle to keep things up to date. Some people that having two copies is enough for their particular data. Making backups only increase the chances of being able to recover your data to a recent state after a disaster but backups are not 100% . Every backup option you can name can fail and leave people SOL in a worst case scenario.