As per title, Megaupload website Has Been Seized by US District Court. Wow.. This is one of the big fileshare community Luckily other big fileshare company like Rapidshare & etc does not met with the same issue. FileSonic, FileServe and Uploaded.to have abruptly cut off the sharing of movies, games and other software just days after the Justice Department closed down Megaupload, the largest such site.
"It looks like the chilling effect has already started," says Dennis Fisher, editor in chief of security blog Threatpost. "Maybe one of the reasons the U.S. government is going after companies alleged to be hosting infringing content is to serve as a deterrent for others engaging in similar activity."
File-sharing services, also referred to as cyberlockers, enable users to easily upload, store and share large files on a server in the Internet cloud. This includes movies, music, gaming applications, software tools, multimedia presentations and the like.But cyberlocker companies have not come up with a good way to consistently stop copyright infringement. "As soon as you let users trade files back and forth, you really don't have much control," says Wade Williams, senior security analyst at firewall supplier Palo Alto Networks.
The motion-picture industry, for one, has been pushing U.S. regulators to enforce copyrights with respect to film content showing up in cyberlockers.
One recent measure of how widespread the problem is comes from Palo Alto Network's recent analysis of the Internet traffic at 1,636 companies, with more than 4 million employees, in the second half of 2011.
The analysis found employees at six in 10 companies used Megaupload to download large content files. Overall, 25% of corporate traffic to and from cyberlockers came from Megaupload, which specialized in entertainment content. Some 22% came from Dropbox, a workplace productivity and collaboration service, followed by 15% from MediaFire, another entertainment-oriented service. The next three most-active cyberlockers in corporate settings were entertainment oriented: FileSonic, 4shared and FilesTube.
One recent measure of how widespread the problem is comes from Palo Alto Network's recent analysis of the Internet traffic at 1,636 companies, with more than 4 million employees, in the second half of 2011.
The analysis found employees at six in 10 companies used Megaupload to download large content files. Overall, 25% of corporate traffic to and from cyberlockers came from Megaupload, which specialized in entertainment content. Some 22% came from Dropbox, a workplace productivity and collaboration service, followed by 15% from MediaFire, another entertainment-oriented service. The next three most-active cyberlockers in corporate settings were entertainment oriented: FileSonic, 4shared and FilesTube.
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