MPAA: Megaupload Shutdown Was Massive Success






In a filing to the Office of the US Trade Representative the major movie studios describe how successful the shutdown of Megaupload has been. According to the MPAA the file-hosting industry was massively disrupted, with carry-over effects to linking and BitTorrent sites. Nonetheless, the movie group says the work is not done yet and lists The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, isoHunt, Kat.ph and several other file-hosting and linking sites as remaining threats.

Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the MPAA has submitted a new list of “notorious markets” they believe promote illegal distribution of movies and TV-shows.

The document dates back to September but unlike previous years it hasn’t been published in public by the MPAA. TorrentFreak managed to obtain a copy nonetheless, and there are a few things worth highlighting.

As one of the main instigators of the Megaupload investigation the MPAA tells the U.S. Government that as a direct result of the takedowns many other “rogue” sites were rendered useless.

“This year’s seizures of Megaupload.com and Megavideo.com by the Department of Justice illustrate the extent and impact that hosting hubs have on the online landscape,” MPAA’s Michael O’Leary writes.

“When these two websites were taken down, many linking websites, custom search engines, and custom streaming scripts that relied on the sites for content became inoperable. Some websites were abandoned by their operators, others lost traffic, while still others shifted their business model.”

More indirectly, the Megaupload shutdown also impacted other file-hosting businesses and their customers. Several sites disabled file-sharing and discontinued their affiliate programs which, according to the MPAA, resulted in a lowered availability of copyrighted content.

“For example, Wupload.com, which was featured in MPAA’s filing last year, disabled file sharing. Affiliate programs that paid uploaders for content were also discontinued or removed by many hubs. Further, infringing content was purged by operators in bulk, which was followed by uploaders who deleted their own files to prevent the hubs from profiting on the uploads without paying incentives.”

“In sum, the impact of these seizures was massive and the hub landscape is still recovering,” O’Leary concludes.

The MPAA is right in their assessment that the Megaupload shutdown greatly impacted the file-hosting business, as we’ve pointed that out on TorrentFreak in the past. However, the group ignores the chilling effect it may have had on many legitimate businesses.

Interestingly, recently published research suggests that shuttering Megaupload may have even had a negative impact on box office revenues. In a recent blog post MPAA’s head of research Julia Jenks said the short paper is “not clear or compelling,” but it’s an indication that the Megaupload shutdown might not be all that positive for the industry itself either.

In addiction to discussing the Megaupload effects, the MPAA also notes that other law enforcement operations have been successful. The movie industry group specifically mentions the private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid.

“The BitTorrent landscape was measurably impacted by both regulatory and law enforcement efforts over the last year. For example, Demonoid.me (Alexa 938) went offline after Mexican officials arrested the site’s operator and coordinated seizures of the website’s servers with Ukrainian officials.”

Aside from summing up these ‘successes’, the MPAA reiterates that there is still a lot of work to do. The movie group calls out several websites including many popular BitTorrent indexes, file-hosting and linking sites including:

BitTorrent sites: ExtraTorrent.com, isoHunt.com, Kat.ph, Rutracker.org, Thepiratebay.se, Torrentz.eu and Xunlei.com.

Download/streaming: Extabit.com, Netload.in, Putlocker.com, Rapidgator.net, Simdisk.co.kr, Uploaded.net and VK.com.

Linking sites: 1channel.ch, Free-tv-video-online.me, Movie2k.to, Seriesyonkis.com, Solarmovie.eu and Telona.org

Later this month the USTR is expected to publish its own overview of “notorious” websites. The report will include many of the MPAA recommendations, as well as those URLs that were submitted by the RIAA.

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The old dinosaur still struggles to maintain its ancient glory by destroying rather than creating. At that day, that copyright jackasses create some new remarkable distribution system I'll shit to my pants - twice.
Just because of pure excitement.

While rest of us are in Steam era, they're still in early Jurassic era. So it'll not likely happen this lifetime.

 

This is also a "training" for american Gov so they can shut down other offensives I mean REALLY like terrorists networks cause they step ahead from them
What a better training than clossing down4% of all internet traffic. But these are official numbers its much much more considering links and external stuff

 

well i posted this info to see if some of old pepps here and SAiNT also comment this. it seams not cuz its related mostly to movies, but its a start. after they have sucess on this they go to music, books, software...

i have a sugestion here,

altroug this post talks about megaupload, uploauded, extbit, bla,blabla, it says also sites and yes most are torrent sites but it seams AVAX is blocked in italy and other country's. I'm here almost since the beguining of AUDIOZ, altrough some time after a register and only now in AUDIOSEX, the posts back then lived more time now past a day or even hours they are dead! this means something! more now wend our poster here do their stuff is a matter of 10 minutes to be all over the web, and that's bad for our dudes here!

anyway my sugestion is i have seen warez and torrent sites that are private and with free membership with a huge sucesses and they live long with no issues at all, so why not a countermesure for the near future and put AUDIOZ private?

i dont know the con's about this but i know the pros,

our posters dont have to reup their stuff many times and we members dont have to whait for that also, is a pain for both sides. some pepps are reporting the links fast and they become dead

plus our kind posters dont see their stuff spreded to the web with other links or torrents, our dudes here must be motivated to bring us more stuff daily.

atm i dont give a f*** about if they win or not €/§, its stupid how pepps are complaining about this, they bring to my home lots of fun and i'm sure to your's to, so its their choice if they whant to earn or not.

protecting the links is also protecting the host, the poster, this site, our members...

anyway since a year ago that i'm using a VPN to download stuff and is a matter of time that i'm go to use for surfing!

p.s. sorry my freaking bad english!

good vibes to you all

 

Well it helped create Me.ga and Megabox. So yes, massive success.