Aye, thats a lot of links for the larger things down the gurgeler. Disappointing (and a little out of the blue).

I guess we'll need to do a bit of damage control. What other alternatives are there?

What makes you think that SendSpace will stick around?

The criminal investigation of MegaUpload started 2 years ago.

Look at this impoundment list, a pity all those cars with cool licence plates..

1.
$175,000,000 in United States dollars;
2.
Bank of New Zealand, Account No. XX-XXXX-XXXX200-04, in the
name of Cleaver Richards Trust Account for Megastuff Limited;
3.
Kiwibank, Account No. XX-XXXX-XXXX922-00, in the name of
Megastuff Limited Nominee Account No. 1;
4.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Auckland, New
Zealand, Account No. XXXXXXXXXXXX2088, in the name of BRAM
VAN DER KOLK;
5.
Citibank, Account No. XXXXXX3053, in the name of Megacard, Inc.;
6.
Citibank, Account No. XXXXXX3066, in the name of Megasite, Inc.;
7.
Stadtsparkasse München, Account No. XXXX4734, in the name of
FINN BATATO;
8.
Commerzbank, Account No. XXXXXXXX4800, in the name of
SVEN ECHTERNACH;
9.
Deutsche Bank AG, Account No. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX6600, in the
name of MATHIAS ORTMANN;
10.
Computershare Investor Services Limited, Holder No. XXXX4385, in the
name of KIM DOTCOM (New Zealand Government Bonds);
11.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXXX0320, in the
name of MEGAUPLOAD LTD.;
12.
Development Bank of Singapore - Vickers Securities, Account No.
XX1901, in the name of MEGAUPLOAD LTD.;
13.
Development Bank of Singapore-Vickers Securities, Account No.
XXX089-4, in the name of Megamedia Ltd.;
14.
Hang Seng Bank Ltd., Account No. XXXXXX78-833, in the name of
Megamedia Ltd.;
15.
Hang Seng Bank, Account No. XXXXXXXX8001, in the name of
Megamedia Ltd.;
16.
Hang Seng Bank, Account No. XXX-XXXX48-382, in the name of
Megamedia Ltd.;
17.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXX5252, in the name
of Megamusic Limited;
18.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXX0060, in the name
of MEGAUPLOAD LTD.;
19.
Hang Seng Bank, Account No. XXX-XXXX75-883, in the name of
MEGAUPLOAD LTD.;
20.
Westpac Bank, Account No. XX-XXXX-XXXX847-02, in the name of
Simpson Grierson Trust Account, holder KIM DOTCOM.
21.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account Nos.
XXX-XXXXX6-220/XXXX6-201/XXXXX6-838, in the name of
MEGAUPLOAD LTD.;
22.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account No.
XXXXXXXX5833, in the name of FINN BATATO;
23.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account No.
XXX-XXXXX5-833, in the name of an individual with the initials BVL;
24.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account No.
XXXXXXXX8833, in the name of ANDRUS NOMM;
25.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account No.
XXXXXXXX3833, in the name of BRAM VAN DER KOLK;
26.
Hang Seng Bank Ltd., Account No. XXX-XXXX52-888, in the name of
KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
27.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Account
No. XXXXXXXX7833, in the name of SVEN ECHTERNACH;
28.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXXX6160, in the
name of VESTOR LIMITED;
29.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXX8921, in the name of
KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
30.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account
No. XXXXXXXX4833, in the name of MATHIAS ORTMANN;
31.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account No.
XXXXXXXX6888, in the name of an individual with the initials JPLL;
32.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account
No. XXXXXXXX9833, in the name of JULIUS BENCKO;
33.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account
No. XXXXXXXX2838, in the name of RNK Media Company;
34.
Development Bank of Singapore Hong Kong, Account No.
XXXXXX6930, in the name of A Limited;
35.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXX1690, in the name
of A Limited;
36.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXX6237, in the name of
KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
37.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXXX9970, in the
name of KIM DOTCOM/KIM VESTOR;
38.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXX8942, in the name of
KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
39.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account
No. XXX-XXXX16-888, in the name of KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
40.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited (ICBC),
Account No. XXXXXXXX8434, in the name of MATHIAS ORTMANN;
41.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXXXXX4440, in the
name of Megapay Ltd.;
42.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXX-XXX-
XXXXXX8760, in the name of Megastuff Ltd.;
43.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Account
No. XXXXXXXX6838, in the name of MEGAUPLOAD LTD.;
44.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXX-XXX-
XXXXXX8870, in the name of N-1 Limited;
45.
Development Bank of Singapore, Account No. XXX-XXX-
XXXXXX1980, in the name of N-1 Limited;
46.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXXX 0741, in the name
of KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
47.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXXX0768, in the name
of KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
48.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXXX1055, in the name
of KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
49.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXXX9938, in the name
of KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
50.
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, Account No. XXXXX8948, in the name
of KIM TIM JIM VESTOR;
51.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Account No.
XXXXXXXX0833, in the name of an individual with the initials LRV;
52.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Account No. XXX-
XXXXX04-888, in the name of an individual with the initials WT;
53.
Bank of the Philippine Islands, Account No. XXXXXX0069, in the name
of Megateam Limited;
54.
Bank of the Philippine Islands, Account No. XXXXXX0264, in the name
of Megateam Limited;
55.
Bank of the Philippine Islands, Account No. XXXXXX3627, in the name
of KIM SCHMITZ;
56.
Bank of the Philippine Islands, Account No. XXXXXX7676, in the name
of KIM SCHMITZ;
57.
Rabobank Nederland, Account No. NLXXXXXXXXXXXX7300, in the
name of Bramos BV;
58.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Australia, Account
No. XXXXXXXX0087, in the name of MATHIAS ORTMANN;
59.
Ceskoslovenska Obchodna Banka Slovakia, Account No.
XXXXXXXX9833, in the name of JULIUS BENCKO;
60.
Paypal Inc., account paypal@megaupload.com;
61.
Paypal Inc., account belonging to KIM DOTCOM
(xxx...@ultimaterally.com);
62.
Paypal Inc., accounts belonging to SVEN ECHTERNACH
(xxx...@sectravel.com, xxx...@sectravel.com, and
xxx...@sven.com);
63.
Paypal Inc., account belonging to BRAM VAN DER KOLK
(xxx...@bramos.nl);
64.
Moneybookers Limited, account belonging to
ccmerchant@megaupload.com;
65.
Moneybookers Limited, account belonging to
moneybookers@megaupload.com;
66.
2010 Maserati GranCabrio, VIN ZAMKM45B000051328, License Plate
No. “M-FB 212” or “DH-GC 470”, registered to FINN BATATO;
67.
2009 Mercedes-Benz E500 Coupe, VIN WDD20737225019582, License
Plate No. “FEG690”;
68.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM, VIN WDB2093422F165517, License
Plate No. “GOOD”;
69.
2004 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM AMG 5.5L Kompressor, VIN
WDB2093422F166073, License Plate No. “EVIL”;
70.
2010 Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG L, VIN WDD2211792A324354, License
Plate No. “CEO”;
71.
2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drop Head Coupe, VIN
SCA2D68096UH07049; License Plate No. “GOD”;
72.
2010 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG, VIN WDD2120772A103834, License
Plate No. “STONED”;
73.
2010 Mini Cooper S Coupe, VIN WMWZG32000TZ03651, License Plate
No. “V”;
74.
2010 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, VIN WDC1641772A608055, License
Plate No. “GUILTY”;
75.
2007 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG, VIN WDD2163792A025130, License
Plate No. “KIMCOM”;
76.
2009 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, VIN WDC1641772A542449, License
Plate No. “MAFIA”;
77.
2010 Toyota Vellfire, VIN 7AT0H65MX11041670, License Plate Nos.
“WOW” or “7”;
78.
2011 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG, VIN WDB4632702X193395, License
Plate Nos. “POLICE” or “GDS672”;
79.
2011 Toyota Hilux, VIN MR0FZ29G001599926, License Plate
No. “FSN455”;
80.
Harley Davidson Motorcycle, VIN 1HD1HPH3XBC803936, License
Plate No. “36YED”;
81.
2010 Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG, VIN WDD2163742A026653, License
Plate No. “HACKER”;
82.
2005 Mercedes-Benz A170, VIN WDD1690322J184595, License Plate
No. “FUR252”;
83.
2005 Mercedes-Benz ML500, VIN WDC1641752A026107, License Plate
No. DFF816;
84.
Fiberglass sculpture, imported from the United Kingdom with Entry
No. 83023712;
85.
1957 Cadillac El Dorado, VIN 5770137596;
86.
2010 Sea-Doo GTX Jet Ski, VIN YDV03103E010;
87.
1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, VIN 59F115669;
88.
Von Dutch Kustom Motor Bike, VIN 1H9S14955BB451257;
89.
2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM, VIN WDB2094421T067269;
90.
2010 Mini Cooper S Coupe, VIN WMWZG32000TZ03648 License
Plate No. “T”;
91.
1989 Lamborghini LM002, VIN ZA9LU45AXKLA12158, License Plate
No. “FRP358”;
92.
2011 Mercedes-Benz ML63, VIN 4JGBB7HB0BA666219;
93.
Samsung 820DXN 82” LCD TV;
94.
Samsung 820DXN 82” LCD TV;
95.
Samsung 820DXN 82” LCD TV;
96.
Devon Works LLC, Tread #1 time piece;
97.
Artwork, In High Spirits, Olaf Mueller photos from The Cat Street
Gallery;
98.
Sharp 108” LCD Display TV;
99.
Sharp 108” LCD Display TV;
100.
Sony PMW-F3K Camera S/N 0200231;
101.
Sony PMW-F3K Camera S/N 0200561;
102.
Artwork, Predator Statue;
103.
Artwork, Christian Colin;
104.
Artwork, Anonymous Hooded Sculpture;
105.
2009 Mercedes-Benz ML350 CDI 4MATIC Off-Roader;
106.
Sharp LC-65XS1M 65” LCD TV;
107.
Sharp LC-65XS1M 65” LCD TV;
108.
TVLogic 56” LUM56W TV;
109.
Sixty (60) Dell R710 computer servers;
110.
The following domain names: Megastuff.co; Megaworld.com;
Megaclicks.co; Megastuff.info; Megaclicks.org; Megaworld.mobi;
Megastuff.org; Megaclick.us; Mageclick.com; HDmegaporn.com;
Megavkdeo.com; Megaupload.com; Megaupload.org; Megarotic.com;
Megaclick.com; Megavideo.com; Megavideoclips.com; Megaporn.com.

I just downloaded 1GB+ from megaupload yesterday? It was slower than usual, but still working?!

Confirmed inoperative at the moment tho... DANG!

this is too much!
first, SOPA and now Megaupload
what is this? a test field for the incoming censorshit over the internet?
and now they re pushing arguments to turn censorship as something socially acceptable?
happy to live in usa? what now?
damn... to much questions in a website that s scared of a single uncertified mail of EA games...
macgarden adms, lets hope you have keep backups of all of my uploads here.

Poor chap arrested just a few miles from me. He looks like he's not going to last long on prison food.

But seriously, the MPAA and others being ab;e to achieve all that by just suggesting that all their income came from those downloading pirated material, that's scary.

At least the site has done the right thing from day one, taking down anything at the request from the original publishers or who appeared to be the original publishers, not just all the EA games, but also Dark Castle, Startegic Conquest and others.

If the music and film industry wouldn't have went digital but stayed analog nobody could rob them. These industries betray their customers with digital quality, which is much lower quality than analog one, in order to make easy cash, and then they are wondering that this isn't easy at all! The scam started with the introduction of the music CD which is not only of lesser quality than the LP but after some years looses its content. And now they do not invest in any hardware at all any more by going iTunes, and wonder that customers fight back!

The sad thing is that the ones who profit most in the music and film industry are the managers and businessmen, not most of the artists (the exception being the stars only). It's a joke to talk about copyright infringement because most artists get bad contracts.

The same is happening now in the book industry, and the result in the long run will be that writers make even less money than the little money they make now.

Artists and writers go back vinyl, celluloid and paper!

Feds shut it down. The US had New Zealand arrest the site's operators on its behalf.
I would assume everything that was stored there is gone.

Do any of us need to worry about this, at least for the stuff posted hear. I can't speak for everyone, but the only thing I used my mega upload account for was to post stuff to this website.

And when I mean worry, I don't mean loss of data, but legal concerns. Could they go after members of the site?

I do have numerous files from Mac Garden/Megaupload that may be in the "missing" collection.

I think they should have investigated the files: I'm sure there's thousands of legitimate documents there.

Sure lawyers will be happy with all that work.
Detaining an EU citizen in NZ on behalf of the FBI? Quite interesting.
According to German law, you would hardly get such a asset seizure, as long as there are tons of legal files on the servers. Commensurability of the instrumentality would be the problem.

That really is bad news. Had lots of stuff parked over on megaupload. Countless hours of work just went down the drain...

We can always hope for some legal backlash from those that had legitimate business data on MU, I know many who used it as a second tier file transfer host if the reliability of their primary FTP server supplier was less than perfect, or if the files were too large to be economically viable to use their primary FTP server, but nearly always because MU was so much faster than their expensive and slow remote FTP servers.

According to the news there a two major claims against MU: Firsty, that they paid some uploaders for uploading and, second, that they did money laundrying.

... yes, too bad stupid goverment shut down MEGAUPLOAD,
I used to download my favorite movies from there and fast.

Well it's a doggone shame. Megaupload is where I parked almost all of my uploads. Thankfully I have all of the files locally still and I think I have managed to download most of what appealed to me already.

Regarding the analog / digital audio and video, it's a lie that analog is better. As Euryale writes, it's a natural evolution of technology. The same thing applies to digital photo and video.

I have ears to hear, and those ears hear that analog is of far better quality than digital. Of course, if you use an ancient needle and a cheap drive analog is no good. Analog has very high hardware demands which digital might not have.

The analog to digital question also has to take into consideration recent dumb moves by the recording companies to create these "hot mixes". This is the attitude that "louder is better". It used to be used for radio as a way to get the sound to be half way decent, overcoming signal degradation and the like. Then some moron decided that the cd's should sound like this. As someone who works with ADC's all day long, I can tell you that if you have a really loud signal, it saturates the ADC(or in our case DACs) and makes the amplitudes of the frequencies flat. Thus reducing the variation is volumes, and overall corruption of the wave form.

So there may be some truth to the record versus CD argument, but you also have to take into account that sometimes the CD technology is tragically misapplied.

Do we have a viable alternative to MegaUpload? I would prefer free, as I am not sure I can convince my accountant that paying for an account is a worth while investment(yes, my accountant is a euphemism for my wife).

Here is an article on alternatives

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/five-great-alternatives-to-megaupload/

From what it is saying, Minus seems to be the best option. Files can be up to 2GB and you get a total of 50GB from free accounts. Subscriptions aren't necessary to keep them from deletion either.

Not sure what the limits are with the Uploading.to service it mentions, if there good enough, it might be worth using that so if one site is shut off the others can still deliver the content. Either way, when uploading a file for here, having a backup for people to use if one goes down would be sensible

News seen in German television, it seems, MegaUpload supported uploading current movies in active state,
but as you know, don't trust any news provided in German newscast, because they're censored by German Newspaper Government Bureau ("German Presserat") in any case, who tells the newscast providers to be US friendly only.

Why not host everything yourself? You will never have this problem again

There is no such thing as digital audio. It's just data. Everytime you listen to it, everytime a sound engineer edit a file he is listening to, the data is analogized. The sample frequency and bitrate available nowadays is by far enough for the demands of the human ear.

Of course, it would be nice if we could have stuck to analog photo, sound and video because then it would have been "real". However, the ability to edit, process and copy data has made analog media obscure.

Thanks for the link to the five alternatives to MU, I've just signed up for Minus, when my broadband quota is reset for next month, I'll go though all my uploads and replace any MU links with ones from minus.com, may take a few months.

This is also an opportunity for those who have downloaded vast amounts of abandonware from Macintosh Garden and uploaded very little in return. If you feel you want to contribute more, you could re-upload any MU-sourced files to one of the alternatives and help preserve it.

Re: the news coverage, what a difference of opinion depending on the provider, I made the mistake of using CNN to get some further info, sounded like a different story. Then I remembered CNN is owned by Time Warner, one of the parties pushing the prosecution.

Edit:
I find it quite funny that the allegations suggest that all of MU's $175m revenue came from those paying to download pirated music and video, denying the plaintiffs $500m in lost revenue. So those too cheap to pay $10 to buy, or $3 to rent a DVD have paid $4 to MU so they can download a pirate copy at a slightly higher speed.
Any good defence team will make mince of the prosecution, for the criminal prosecution anyway. A shame they've taken on Bill Clinton's legal representation, I would have gone for the OJ Simpson team. Not defending them, if they're guilty of making that much money from pirated material, then lock them up and throw away the key, but the allegations against them are very broad, with little or no obvious evidence, yet, I have expected to Al-Quaeda mentioned in there. Their best hope may be an untained jury.

Maybe we should have a thread for reporting files for reupload?
I know i will be re uploading any files i find which i have and where on MU

Have we tried to send email to the Justice Department or the FBI or whatever talking about the lost files? I think that may be a plausible alternative.

Whatever way you may feel about downloading content without paying for it. Does not make any difference. The entertainment industry lobbies congress to make actions like shutting down megaupload possible, its' not really about lost revenue it's more about control. As for people who hosted totally legitimate content on megaupload according to the entertainment industry and the DOJ you can go f*** yourself if you don't have an army of lobbyists then you don't matter.

I will look though what downloads I have and re-upload as much I can to other hosting services, but I fear this is not the end of this but only the tip of the ice berg.

"Have we tried to send email to the Justice Department or the FBI or whatever talking about the lost files? I think that may be a plausible alternative."

Please don't do that. Seriously.

The whole case might just be about stupidity: Kim Schmitz had a pretty good working business model: subscribers paid for unlimited fast download of films. Exactly this model also the film industry could have implemented and made a lot of money - but - they obviously they were too slow and too stupid for this. It's like with the music industry: Steve Jobs had to save them with iTunes; they were too stupid to implement such a thing as iTunes themselves...

IIGS User, as for you thinking that the German media is manipulated, I think that is true for all (or most) of the media internationally. Journalists are stupid poor persons totally depended on the publishers, and the publishers like to hang up with the influential ones....

Ah, I see.

Going back to topic, they don't differ between current movies and old Mac games.

@ I agree with the posts about manipulated mainstream media, but thanks to the internet we have the power to check everything and see through lies. That is why it is so important to stop SOPA & such plans..

Anyway, as I wrote, I spent countless hours of uploading stuff to megaupload. (I did upload a lot of 4 or 5 disc multimedia games)

So when thinking about alternatives services, I really fear that any of them could be shut down on the same premises as megaupload next week. Some posters here already asked why we wouldn't store the files on a (bigger) server ourselves? I had donated twice in the past when money was collected for that purpose and I would even do it another time if only we could finally undertake that step?

I think the best way to begin "rebuilding" would be as follows:

1. Make a list of all software lost. While tedious, this shouldn't be toooo hard.
2. Begin compiling lost files in a central location. These could be trusted community members' hard drives, server space here even if they aren't available for download due to bandwidth things, or uploaded to a tertiary private server. If the latter, I suggest the one on macdomain.org, but I'm a little biased being an admin on that server and all

481 files is not ridiculous. Get a crew of 10 people finding one file a day and it will take less than 2 months...

No matter how many files it is, it's not a disaster, a single page clearly listing the apps and games affected, versions, formats etc, and we each tick one off as we upload it and update the game / app page with the new link.
It would be something that everyone who has ever downloaded from here can contribute towards.

SOPA is a strange thing, you can listen to the chief execs of the corporations involved explain why it is necessary, and I have to agree with everything they say, the piracy and theft that must be stopped. I agree with all that they say they're trying to achieve, BUT the SOPA legislation bears no relation to this desire, it grants obscene powers to a supposed civilised country, which already exist in other countries around the world that we call 'babberous' and 'evil'.

It was only a matter of time, really. Does make you wonder who is next on the hit list though.

RIP Megaupload. You will be missed. I had no idea that the owners were that rich either!

Now begins the long tedious task of reuploading all that was lost... ^_^

I already uploaded 3 files. If you lazy people would get moving we could be done in no time.
I estimate I could upload about three dozen more files that I grabbed here previously.

Christ! Is it poss to get this together in a list to be ticked off? Think it could make more of helpers if it´s made easy,

like me for an instance…
Recommended places to upload to?
Edit:
Made the list, which can be read here; http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/files-missing-mu-list-links

I tell you who´s next on the black list

xxxxxxxx.com (I download a lot of stuff from there but they don´t store actual data)
xxxxxxxx.com (I still look for hard to find stuff)
xxxxxxxx.com (secret site I know, hopefully they won´t find it)
xxxxxxxx.org (I download all my movies from)
xxxxxxxx.org (I download all my Windows software from there)

www.macintoshgarden.org
(oh! this one is NOT on the list, do not worry they ONLY PRESERVE OLD ABANDONEWARE,)
now, you better think twice about uploading Mac OS X stuff here...

All of these sites I know for certain are on the list except two, but I believe it´s just a matter of time

.. by the way,
Digital Audio is much better quality than Analog,

@ XY, I believe you have good ears, but NOT as good as you think they are! (he he)

Germany´s biggest political party CDU/CSU wants to launch a legislation resembling SOPA more than closely.
For those of you reading German, look here: http://www.golem.de/1201/89320.html
Anticipatory obedience was a well known problem in the past and it still seems to be.