The crackdown on Megaupload was just the beginning of the downfall of File sharing Empire. The feds charged Megaupload’s executive team with criminal charges for copyright infringement and racketeering in addition to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and money laundering. This was enough to scare the hell out of other services, who shortly began closing down services to avoid similar DOJ entanglements. FileSonic and Fileserve have eliminated file sharing from their service menus. At Fileserve and Filesonic you can only download items you’ve uploaded yourself. Sites like Filejungle, 4shared, and Uploadstation are deleting premium accounts and affiliate programs. Uploaded.to has banned all US IP addresses. These services are also bulk deleting user accounts and files in their account.
Those who had bought premium accounts have lost their money. If you recently bought a premium in any of these services, there is a slight change that you might be able to get back your money. I am lucky because my account expired a few weeks ago and last week I was considering buying a fileserve premium account.
The activity is low in many file sharing websites; many are waiting to see how all of this is going to settle. Many people are going back to the torrents to get their daily dose of entertainment.
How are you coping with this?
