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Notice: Files being re-uploaded to different File-Sharing Host

2012-01-23T16:11:00.003-06:00

We are working on re-uploading the files to a new sharing service, some files have already been restored as of this moment.

Also we will be making more use of safelinking and using a download button, instead of visible links.

PerfectDisk 11 Professional w/ Serial Number

2012-01-23T06:50:00.004-06:00

DOWNLOAD LINK

includes valid Serial Number to register and receive updates

Automatic Disk Defrag
Microsoft certified for Windows 7
Centralized management and control
Automatic notification of fragmentation issues
Automatic background defragmentation
Flexible scheduling options
Patented advanced file placement technology

Is Fileserve next on the Fed´s list to bust?

2012-01-22T20:12:00.010-06:00

Fileserve is suspending Premium Accounts without notifying its members, probably out of fear of the same FBI Terrorist Cell that took down Megaupload.

Sadly enough, at this moment they are still advertising their earnings program and offering to link to them, even though the earnings were removed from the respective control panel´s interface.

This is deceptive and downright wrong, especially since they haven´t taken down the links, the files remain on their servers and are still available for download, hoping to generate revenue by deceiving customers to purchase a Premium Membership.

PC Tuner Vallarta is moving to a NEW filehost, FileFactory and will leave the Fileserve links on this blog for now ( for your convenience) while we´re uploading the files to the new host.

Don´t purchase a Premium Account from Fileserve as they are canceling the accounts anyway. I already contacted PayPal and opened a dispute to stop this pratice.

Microsoft Office 2010 Simplified - Tutorial (Pdf)

2012-01-22T20:03:00.004-06:00

A clear, visual way to learn Office 2010 quickly and easily

If you're looking for a way to get up to speed quickly on the newest version of Microsoft Office, these 400 pages of step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots make it easy. Office 2010 has new features and tools to master, and whether you're upgrading from an earlier version or encountering the Office applications for the first time, you'll appreciate this simplified approach.

This easy-to-follow guide covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher. Microsoft Office holds more than 90 percent of the market for Windows-based productivity suites.
More than 90 percent of Windows users use Microsoft Office
This guide covers all the Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Publisher
Designed for people who learn best visually, with step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots throughout
Revamped interior design makes it even easier to find and understand information
Teaches dozens of common Office tasks

Office 2010 Simplified makes this technology easy to understand, even for those who are completely new to computers.

France, Mon Amour 2CD Set (VA-2005)

2012-01-22T19:49:00.003-06:00

Download Link

http://www.filefactory.com/file/c2b6dac/n/pcmv.bkup.fmiam.msc.rar

Disc 1
101. Leo Ferré - Avec Les Temps.mp3
102. Jacques Brel - Neme Quitte Pas.mp3
103. Serge Gainsbourg - Black Trombone.mp3
104. Yves Montand - Les Feuilles Mort.mp3
105. Beautiful South - Les Yeux Ouverts.mp3
106. Dalida & Alain Delon - Paroles Paroles.mp3
107. Claude François - Comme D'habitude.mp3
108. Serge Reggiani - Et Puis.mp3
109. Nicoletta - Mamy Blue.mp3
110 Theme From Emmanuelle.mp3
111. Art Sulivan - Douce Comme L'amour.mp3
112. Barbara - Ma Plus Belle Histoire D'amour.mp3
113. Dalida - Il Venait D'avoir 18 Ans.mp3
114. Sylvie Vartan - Il Pleut Sur London.mp3
115. Edith Piaf - Non Je Ne Regrette Rien.mp3

Disc 2
201. Nana Mouskouri & Michel Legrand - Quand On S'aime.mp3
202. Manhattan Transfer - Chanson D'amour.mp3
203. Michel Legrand - Quand Ça Balance.mp3
204. Claude Nougaro - Le Jazz Et La Java.mp3
205. Boris Vian - Je Suis Snob.mp3
206. Juliette Gréco - La Javanaise.mp3
207. Edith Piaf - Tu Es Partout.mp3
208. Léo Ferré - La Solitude.mp3
209. Maxime Le Forestier - Comme Un Arbre.mp3
210. George Moustaki - Le Métèque.mp3
211. Johnny Halliday - Pauvres Diables.mp3
212. Brigitte Bardot - La Madrague.mp3
213. Michel Sardou - Les Ricains.mp3
214. Marie Laforêt - Marie Douceur Marie Colère.mp3
215. Michel Delpech - Pour Un Flirt.mp3

Call to ALL Americans that are SICK AND TIRED of corruption

2012-01-22T16:20:00.004-06:00

Find the address of your reps so you can mail them
their PINK SLIP
at http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Source Article: http://firecongress.org/article.php/Story-Pink_Slip_Mail-In_Campaign

No matter what you do to voice your displeasure with what our so-called representatives in government are doing, it's only as effective as the consequences our representatives suffer for not doing what we've hired them to do . . . represent US. For example, you can write them, fax them, camp outside their offices but the sad fact is your representatives are only wondering one thing . . . "OR WHAT? What are you going to do to me if I don't do what you want?"

The reason we are never taken seriously, the reason we are always ignored is simply because there are no real consequences for ignoring us. There is no criminal penalty for violating their oath of office. So we need to remind everyone exactly what the consequence are for violating our trust and the oath of office. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE "REALLY" GOING TO DO. WE HAVE TO TELL EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WE ARE GOING TO VOTE YOU OUT OF OFFICE YOU BASTARD! That's OR WHAT! And we actually have to follow through with it!

So you see, the real problem isn't the Congress. The real problem is US. We never hold any of them accountable. We just keep allowing them to be reelected over and over and over. We NEVER FOLLOW THROUGH WITH OUR THREAT.

Read more...

The Brainwashing of America - Stage 3

2012-01-22T14:21:00.007-06:00

WARNING: We are definitely in Stage 3

Stage 1: Demoralization
Stage 2: Destabilization
Stage 3: Crisis
Stage 4: watch Video
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This video deals with the dangers and outlines the 4 stages of brainwashing a nation by an ex-Kremlin expert

Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply

2012-01-22T11:26:00.006-06:00

Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post

Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.

Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the #1 killer.

Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studies linking it to decreased IQ and infertility.

In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries. Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.

According to the authors of the study:

The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.

Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation; however, the United States government (along with other nations) has allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the U.S. government has even gone on record stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.

Read more...

Bleak Outlook for 2012: Tyranny in the Forecast

2012-01-22T10:57:00.004-06:00

Note: Paul Craig Roberts now has his own website. We encourage you to visit and support his official homepage.

Paul Craig Roberts
Activist Post

This past year has not been a good one for the 99%, and the new year is likely to be even worse. This column deals with the outlook for liberty. The next will deal with the economic outlook.

The outlook for liberty is dismal. Those writers who are critical of Washington’s illegal wars and overthrow of the US Constitution could find themselves in indefinite detainment, because criticism of Washington’s policies can be alleged to be aiding Washington’s enemies, which might include charities that provide aid to bombed Palestinian children and flotillas that attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. (Source)

The Bush/Obama regimes have put the foundation in place for imprisoning critics of the government without due process of law. The First Amendment is being all but restricted to rah-rah Americans who chant USA! USA! USA! Washington has set itself up as world prosecutor, forever berating other countries for human rights violations, while Washington alone bombs half a dozen countries into the stone age and threatens several more with the same treatment, all the while violating US statutory law and the Geneva Conventions by torturing detainees. (Source)

Washington rounds up assorted foreign politicians, whose countries were afflicted with civil wars, and sends them off to be tried as war criminals, while its own war crimes continue to mount. However, if a person exposes Washington’s war crimes, that person is held without charges in conditions that approximate torture.

Bradley Manning is the case in point. Manning, a US soldier, is alleged to be the person who released to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video, which, in the words of Marjorie Cohn, “depicts U.S. forces in an Apache helicopter killing 12 unarmed civilians, including two Reuters journalists. People trying to rescue the wounded were also fired upon and killed.”

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The US Air Force wants to monitor, track and analyze Internet activity around the globe

2012-01-22T10:50:00.003-06:00

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Dr. Mark Maybury, the United States Air Force Chief Scientist, is stepping outside of the typical areas in which an Air Force Chief Scientist operates and into the digital realm.

Maybury seeks to develop something he has dubbed “Social Radar” which would monitor information coming from just about every source imaginable: television, all Internet communications, radio, official reports, and more, in order to look into the hearts and minds of target populations and perhaps even predict future events.

The Department of Defense (DOD) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been working on technology along these lines for some time now, but Maybury’s vision seems even more expansive and hard to believe than anything I’ve previously heard of or read about.

Maybury outlined his vision of a Social Radar in a 2010 paper for the MITRE Corporation, a government-funded entity.

This 11-page paper outlines just a few of the possible sources of data and the goals the military has in mind for such a system, which are ambitious to say the least.

Maybury chose Social Radar for a reason as he sees a strong parallel between his vision and more traditional sensors.

Read Full article...

J'ai Deux Amours: Dee Dee Bridgewater (2005)

2012-01-22T10:34:00.002-06:00

Single Link Download

http://www.filefactory.com/file/c2b208a/n/pcmv.bkup.ddbw.jda.rar

J'Ai Deux Amours
Mer ( Beyond the Sea)
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Mon Homme ( My Man)
Et Maintenant
Que Reste-T-Il de Nos Amours
Dansez Sur Moi ( Girl Talk)
Belle Vie ( the Good Life)
Avec le Temps
Vie en Rose
Feuilles Mortes
Hymne a l'Amour [If You Love Me]

Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water

2012-01-22T09:41:00.005-06:00

Instead of rewarding home-owners for making use of a rainwater collection system and even offer a tax deduction for doing so, it is ILLEGAL ?

No wonder other countries are beating us in advanced technologies, such as solar and wind turbine energy harvesting. Is there a conflict of interest, hidden agenda or are there any water company lobbyists preventing this?

While other countries encourage this:
http://www.solusrenewableenergy.co.uk/rainwater-harvesting.html

in the good old land of the free and home of the brave it is illegal
what´s next?

Original Story: http://www.riseearth.com/2011/12/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in.html

"Because if we can't even freely collect the rain that falls all around us, then what, exactly, can we freely do? The rainwater issue highlights a serious overall problem in America today: diminishing freedom and increased government control."

Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.

As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use.

Read Full article...

MegaUpload.com website seized by FBI Terrorists

2012-01-22T09:14:00.003-06:00

Apparently all the hoopla about SOPA was a diversion tactic by the FBI. The shut down Megaupload without SOPA and/or PIPA. Megaupload is charged with CONSPIRACY and Money Laundering? Get REAL. That´s like charging Budweiser with Murder because a drunk driver killed someone. Of course they have lobbyists greasing the wheels of our so called democracy and Free Enterprise by paying off the politicians.

What the FUCK? I admittedly have sent pirated material through the U.S. Postal Service and even FedEx, and know this is common practice. Let´s shut them down as well, after all, it´s not free and there is no search function or box.

Thanks to Anonymous for shutting down, even if only temporarily, several government and music industry websites in retaliation.

Uploading files to NEW Filehost - By Popular Demand

2012-01-22T08:53:00.004-06:00

We are working on uploading files to the NEW FileHost

Please be patient and keep checking back or leave an anonymous comment that will generate an e-mail requesting the file you wish to download.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong for Lovers (2005)

2012-01-22T08:32:00.004-06:00

Download Link

http://www.filefactory.com/file/c2bfecf/n/pcmv.bkup.efla.fl.rar

01 the nearness of you
02 stars fell on Alabama
03 dream a little dream of me
04 under a blanket of blue
05 moonlight in Vermont
06 love is here to stay
07 let's do it (let's fall in love)
08 would you like to take a walk
09 isn't this a lovely day
10 autumns in New York
11 tenderly

Moving to NEW Filehost - Files may be temporarily unavailable

2012-01-21T22:54:00.003-06:00

Due to Filserve´s action to remove its affiliate page and suspend accounts in response to Nazi-America´s indictment of Megaupload foreign national staff on foreign soil, PC Tuner Vallarta is moving to a NEW offshore file-host. We already started uploading the files.

Fileserve may take down the links currently posted, please keep checking back for updates, we will be posting links for the oldest entries first.

For the time being, you may post an anonymous comment that will generate an e-mail notification if you would like or need a certain file.

Who's next on FBI most wanted filehost list?

2012-01-21T22:42:00.008-06:00

Fileserve removed its affiliate page as of few minutes ago, because USA/FBI thinks that a legal part of their TOS is not enough to protect them, where users are responsible for their own content, and not filehost itself. Also, their thread disappeared from WJunction. Who's next on FBI most wanted filehost list? Why all this, when SOPA/PIPA loose their support? All these could be done way back, if that is even legitimate, and by law. Smells fishy...

VideoBB closed its affiliate program.

Latest news:

Filepost started suspending accounts with infringing material

Uploaded.to not available in U.S. anymore

SOPA: Don't Just Protest - Get Even

2012-01-20T09:30:00.005-06:00

original article by
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

The entire reason why SOPA's authors and supporters have the money, influence, and power to put forward draconian bills like this in the first place is because of our daily patronizing of their corporations and the goods and services they provide.

SOPA supporters include the US Chamber of Commerce, the MPAA, and many of the mega-corporations Americans, and indeed people around the world, support on a daily basis. The key to stopping SOPA and the watered-down feigned "concession" that will surely followis to undermine the unwarranted power and influence of the corporations and financiers backing.

If Americans withdrew their support from these corporations -- if theaters were left empty, if Pepsi and Coke were left collecting dust on the shelves of an empty Wal-Mart -- bills like SOPA would not exist, let alone have a chance to be passed into law.

Below is just one letter signed by just one group of these corporations and organizations. Boycott, put out of business, and replace these corporations with local alternatives.

Download complete list:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/c2b188f/n/letter-359.pdf

Sponsors of this letter in support of "rogue sites legislation" include:
(partial listing)
3M
Alliance of Automobile Manufactures
American Apparel and Footwear Associations
Autodesk Inc.
Bose Corporation
Broadcast Music Inc (BMI)
Caterpillar
CBS
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Electronic Arts (EA)
Ford Motor Company
GlaxoSmith Kline
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Johnson & Johnson
L'Oreal
Macmillian
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Football League (NFL)
NBC Universal
News Corporation (Fox News)
NHL
Nike
Nintendo of America
Oakley
Pfizer
PGA of America
Philip Morris International
Reebok
Rite Aid
Rolex
Rosetta Stone
Software & Information Industry Association
Sony
Dow Chemical
McGraw-Hill
Timberland
Walt Disney
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner
Toshiba
US Chamber of Commerce
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
Universal Music Group
Viacom
Wal-Mart
Warner Music Group
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Xerox Corporation
Zippo Manufacturing

Read full story...

United States of America occupied by Nazis now a Police State

2012-01-20T01:20:00.003-06:00

One of the world’s most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.

A federal indictment accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to make it easier for authorities to go after sites with pirated material, especially those with overseas headquarters and servers.

Megaupload is based in Hong Kong, but some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Va., which gave federal authorities jurisdiction, the indictment said.

The Justice Department said in a statement said that Kim Dotcom, 37, and three other employees were arrested Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials. Three other defendants are at large.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and digital rights online, said in a statement that, “This kind of application of international criminal procedures to Internet policy issues sets a terrifying precedent. If the United States can seize a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright claim, what is next?”

The FBI and foreign authorities seized close to 60 bank accounts as well as various PayPal accounts.
Authorities also seized around 30 cars and motorcycles.

All this, over a copyright claim?

Newt Gingrich wanted 'open marriage' [Video]

2012-01-20T00:30:00.009-06:00

Nice guy, wife comes down with MS and he files for divorce, sure to make a great leader and President of the U.S. - NOT

"School prayer would have prevented me ...from being such an ASSHOLE"

Newt Gingrich asked for an "open marriage," his ex-wife says in a new interview being aired just 48 hours before South Carolina voters head to the polls (see video below).

Speaking with ABC News, Marianne Gingrich says that her then-husband made the request as he disclosed his six-year affair with a congressional staffer.

"I said to him, 'We've been married a long time.' And he said, 'Yes, but you want me all to yourself,' " Marianne Gingrich told the network.

She said her husband responded that the other woman "doesn't care what I do."

"He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused," she said. "That is not a marriage."

The other woman was Callista Bisek, who is now married to the GOP presidential hopeful.

According to excerpts released by ABC News, Marianne Gingrich describes the "shock" of learning of her husband's infidelity, which came at the same time he was condemning then-President Bill Clinton for his affair with a White House intern.

Gingrich moved to divorce her, she said, just after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

"He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew," she said.

The full interview is set to air on ABC's "Nightline" on Thursday night, hours after another Republican candidates debate. South Carolina Republicans will vote in a presidential preference primary Saturday.

New polls show Gingrich has either substantially narrowed what had been a Mitt Romney lead, or taken an outright lead of his own.

The Gingrich campaign had no immediate reaction to the interview excerpts. Gingrich's daughters wrote a memo to ABC News executives Wednesday.

"We will not say anything negative about our father's ex-wife. He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves," Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman wrote. "ABC News or other campaigns may want to talk about the past, just days before an important primary election. But Newt is going to talk to the people of South Carolina about the future .... We are confident this is the conversation the people of South Carolina are interested in having."

In an interview on NBC's "Today" show Thursday morning, Gingrich declined to comment.

"I'm not going to say anything negative about Marianne," he said. "I realize that some of the elite media would like to do almost anything other than cover [President Obama's] failures, but the fact is ... we have a lot we can talk about today about real problems."

Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement

2012-01-19T23:19:00.002-06:00

Terrorist Uncle Sam strikes again!

FBI has foreign nationals arrested on foreign soil for ALLEGED copyright infringement
what´s next?

Wall Street Criminals that stole millions and brought the WORLD´s economic system to the brink of collapse, Terrorists George Bush and Son, that ordered the torture and murder of innocent civilians, attacked Iraq and killed or ordered the killing of journalists walk around free? They even got millions of dollars in either cash, stocks or governement contrcts to keep stealing from YOU!!!

source: FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-leaders-of-megaupload-with-widespread-online-copyright-infringement

Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement

U.S. Department of Justice January 19, 2012

Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202)514-1888

— filed under: Cyber Crimes, Intellectual Property Theft, Organized Crime/Drugs, Press Release

WASHINGTON—Seven individuals and two corporations have been charged in the United States with running an international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works through Megaupload.com and other related sites, generating more than $175 million in criminal proceeds and causing more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners, the U.S. Justice Department and FBI announced today.

This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.

The individuals and two corporations—Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited—were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on Jan. 5, 2012, and charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering, and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement. The individuals each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit racketeering, five years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, 20 years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and five years in prison on each of the substantive charges of criminal copyright infringement.

The indictment alleges that the criminal enterprise is led by Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, 37, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand. Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and is the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which has been used to hold his ownership interests in the Mega-affiliated sites.

In addition, the following alleged members of the Mega conspiracy were charged in the indictment:

Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann, and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by New Zealand authorities, who executed provisional arrest warrants requested by the United States. Bencko, Echternach, and Nomm remain at large. Today, law enforcement also executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seized approximately $50 million in assets, and targeted sites where Megaupload has servers in Ashburn, Va., Washington, D.C., the Netherlands, and Canada. In addition, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.

According to the indictment, for more than five years the conspiracy has operated websites that unlawfully reproduce and distribute infringing copies of copyrighted works, including movies—often before their theatrical release—music, television programs, electronic books, and business and entertainment software on a massive scale. The conspirators’ content hosting site, Megaupload.com, is advertised as having more than one billion visits to the site, more than 150 million registered users, 50 million daily visitors, and accounting for four percent of the total traffic on the Internet. The estimated harm caused by the conspiracy’s criminal conduct to copyright holders is well in excess of $500 million. The conspirators allegedly earned more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and selling premium memberships.

The indictment states that the conspirators conducted their illegal operation using a business model expressly designed to promote uploading of the most popular copyrighted works for many millions of users to download. The indictment alleges that the site was structured to discourage the vast majority of its users from using Megaupload for long-term or personal storage by automatically deleting content that was not regularly downloaded. The conspirators further allegedly offered a rewards program that would provide users with financial incentives to upload popular content and drive web traffic to the site, often through user-generated websites known as linking sites. The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicized their links to users throughout the world.

In addition, by actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicize infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicize such content on the Megaupload site. Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users.

As alleged in the indictment, the conspirators failed to terminate accounts of users with known copyright infringement, selectively complied with their obligations to remove copyrighted materials from their servers and deliberately misrepresented to copyright holders that they had removed infringing content. For example, when notified by a rights holder that a file contained infringing content, the indictment alleges that the conspirators would disable only a single link to the file, deliberately and deceptively leaving the infringing content in place to make it seamlessly available to millions of users to access through any one of the many duplicate links available for that file.

The indictment charges the defendants with conspiring to launder money by paying users through the sites’ uploader reward program and paying companies to host the infringing content.

The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, Organized Crime and Gang Section, and Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section also assisted with this case.

The investigation was initiated and led by the FBI at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. Substantial and critical assistance was provided by the New Zealand Police, the Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand (OFCANZ), the Crown Law Office of New Zealand,and the Office of the Solicitor General for New Zealand; Hong Kong Customs and the Hong Kong Department of Justice; the Netherlands Police Agency and the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Fraud and Environmental Crime in Rotterdam; London’s Metropolitan Police Service; Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt and the German Public Prosecutors; and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police-Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Federal Enforcement Section and the Integrated Technological Crime Unit and the Canadian Department of Justice’s International Assistance Group. Authorities in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Philippines also provided assistance.

This case is part of efforts being undertaken by the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (IP Task Force) to stop the theft of intellectual property. Attorney General Eric Holder created the IP Task Force to combat the growing number of domestic and international intellectual property crimes, protect the health and safety of American consumers, and safeguard the nation’s economic security against those who seek to profit illegally from American creativity, innovation, and hard work. The IP Task Force seeks to strengthen intellectual property rights protection through heightened criminal and civil enforcement, greater coordination among federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, and increased focus on international enforcement efforts, including reinforcing relationships with key foreign partners and U.S. industry leaders. To learn more about the IP Task Force, go to www.justice.gov/dag/iptaskforce.

Anonymous declares Day of Action against NDAA (VIDEO)

2012-01-19T22:51:00.003-06:00

original source:
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-ndaa-act-us-485/

Time magazine called the protester the person of the year for 2011, but if the US government continues with its campaign against American freedom, defying corruption with demonstration as such will be outlawed in only a matter of time.

Concerned over how very real the collapse of the US Constitution is because of Congress’ passing of the National Defense Authorization Act, activists with the online collective Anonymous have proposed a national day of action against the controversial legislation to occur next month.

Hacktivists had initially proposed a massive campaign against the act for January, but have now moved the protest to launch on February 3.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA, was recently signed off by US President Barack Obama. Under the legislation, the Department of Defense is guaranteed spending appropriations for a 12-month span. Thanks to certain provisions snuck in, however, the US government is granted the powers to indefinitely detain and torture American citizens without charge, essentially creating Guantanamo Prison-style detention possibilities for anyone deemed a threat by American authorities.

US President Barack Obama insists that he will not abide by such provisions, although the laws are still written and approved under his own name. Although he could abide by his word and remove himself from endorsing any of the provisions, the fact that the legislation does still for such enforcement does not negate its existence.

"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield,” says ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero of the dangerous realities promised under NDAA. Even if the president says he will not abide by the powers he has now been bestowed with under the legislation, Romero says that Obama “will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law.”

Activists against the legislation have rallied in opposition since it first moved through Congress. Following Obama’s New Year’s Eve signing, however, widespread disbelief and concern has only increased and now Anonymous is urging Americans to take it to the streets before Congress begins to act on the damning bill

“While we cannot force the American people to protest, we must tell them that this law will trip away any rights they thought they had including but not limited to free speech, free press, free access to information and the right to protest, assemble and bear arms,” recites a digitzed voice in a recent YouTube clip uploaded by an account alleging to be affiliated with the Anonymous collective. The narrator describes that NDAA allows for the government to detain suspects, “even American citizens, without trial” for any allegedly belligerent acts.

“What is a belligerent act?” asks the speaker. “Is protesting a belligerent act? Is being Anonymous a belligerent act? This is where we draw the line.”

“This is when we revolt.”

In a written message that appears in the video, the operative says that the protests will spawn nationally. “Everyone will flood the street. The street is now your place of protest.”

Since NDAA first entered Congress, protests have occurred across America although they have attracted relatively small numbers of participants and have almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media.

Demonstrations were staged outside the White House for several days in a row with a handful of protesters being arrested for their actions.

"We are trying to get word out to the people that they need to petition laws like this," one Anonymous operative participating in the campaign, Operation Blackout, tells RT. "NDAA was passed with minimum media attention, so 'Anons' and [those with the Occupy Wall Street movement] have been dedicated to raising awareness. So far word has spread pretty fast. Now we have to convince those who "represent" us to actually do what they were elected to do."

Even people who've come to me trying to defend NDAA have quickly backed off when they realized exactly what this law means to US citizens," adds the operative.

Previously, hacktivists aligned with the Anonymous collective attempted to wage cyber attacks on the creators and signers of NDAA, going after lawmakers involved in the bill by posting private information on the Web.

“No longer will you enslave the people. The world will know of your violations against the rights of the citizens you were elected to represent,” read a statement from one Anonymous operative at the time.

In recent weeks, a similar online-organized attack against supporters of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, forced in part several major corporations from withdrawing support of the legislation.

Megaupload finished: Feds shut down file-sharing giant without SOPA

2012-01-19T22:11:00.002-06:00

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A lot of good those Wednesday blackouts did for the Internet. Not.

One day after thousands of websites temporarily shut-down to highligt the dangers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), federal prosecutors have pulled the plug on Megaupload.com, a website that was at one time among the top 20 most popular sites in the world.

American authorities helped issue arrests on Thursday for four people in New Zealand that they say are responsible for the website. According to the official indictment, unsealed the same day, Megaupload is being accused of costing copyright holders upwards of $500 million in lost revenues because of content illegally uploaded to its servers.

Megaupload is one of many highly visited websites that allows users to upload any media of their choice that might be too large for traditional online distribution. In lieu of email and instant messaging, users of Megaupload and similar sites can upload massive digital files and then pass the link to others across the world for easy download. The website claims that it has always been diligent in handling complaints regarding pirated material, but authorities have taken Megaupload offline while they investigate.

In a statement published by the US Department of Justice on the website for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Thursday afternoon, they call the charges “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.”

The news comes only hours after thousands of sites repealed a temporary blackout in opposition to SOPA and PIPA, which garnered support from sites including Wikipedia, Reddit and Google.

Kim Dotcom, formerly Kim Schmitz, was among the four in New Zealand that were arrested on Thursday for violating piracy laws. The company itself is listed as being based out of Hong Kong and names musician Swizz Beatz, husband to Grammy winner Alicia Keys, as its CEO. Dotcom is being pegged by authorities as the founder of Megaupload Limited and is among a roster of other persons accused of being affiliated, which includes citizens of the Netherlands, Estonia, Germany and Slovakia.

Back in America though, law enforcement officials conducted search warrants related to the charges, and seized, internationally, $50 million in assets.

While Megaupload is traditionally a free service, users are granted added incentives for purchasing subscriptions to the site. Advertisements are sold on its pages as well.

The Department of Justice writes that “for more than five years the conspiracy has operated websites that unlawfully reproduce and distribute infringing copies of copyrighted works, including movies — often before their theatrical release — music, television programs, electronic books and business and entertainment software on a massive scale.” The site has advertised on its own that it is visited by around 50 million users each day and constitutes for four percent of the Internet’s traffic. The DoJ believes those running the operation have netted more than $175 million in illegal profits by selling ads and subscriptions on the site.

According to the DoJ statement, “conspirators conducted their illegal operation using a business model expressly designed to promote uploading of the most popular copyrighted works for many millions of users to download.” Before going dark, however, Megaupload posted a statement on its website shunning allegations of wrongdoings.

"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's Internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch," wrote the administrators.

Anonymous downs government, music industry sites in largest attack ever

2012-01-19T22:07:00.002-06:00

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Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.

In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA, Motion Picture Association of America and Warner Music Group.

“It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,” Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon.

Only hours before the DoJ and Universal sites went down, news broke that Megaupload, a massive file sharing site with a reported 50 million daily users, was taken down by federal agents. Four people linked to Megaupload were arrested in New Zealand and an international crackdown led agents to serving at least 20 search warrants across the globe.

The latest of sites to fall is FBI.gov, which finally broke at around 7:40 pm EST Thursday evening.

Less than an hour after the DoJ and Universal sites came down, the website for the RIAA, or Recording Industry Association of America, went offline as well. Shortly before 6 p.m EST, the government's Copyright.gov site went down as well. Thirty minutes later came the site for BMI, or Broadcast Music, Inc, the licensing organization that represents some of the biggest names in music.

Also on Thursday, MPAA.org returned an error as Anonymous hacktivists managed to bring down the website for the Motion Picture Association of America. The group, headed by former senator Chris Dodd, is an adamant supporter of both PIPA and SOPA legislation.

Universal Music Group, or UMG, is the largest record company in the United States and under its umbrella are the labels Interscope-Geffen-A&M, the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group and Mercury Records.

Brown adds that “more is coming” and Anonymous-aligned hacktivists are pursuing a joint effort with others to “damage campaign raising abilities of remaining Democrats who support SOPA.”

Although many members of Congress have just this week changed their stance on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, the raid on Megaupload Thursday proved that the feds don’t need SOPA or its sister legislation, PIPA, in order to pose a blow to the Web.

Brown adds that operatives involved in the project will use an “experimental campaign” and search engine optimization techniques “whereby to forever saddle some of these congressmen with their record on this issue.”

MegaUpload file sharing site shut down for piracy by Feds

2012-01-19T21:32:00.007-06:00

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The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has conducted a major action to shut down MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site widely used for free downloads of movies and television shows.

After receiving indictments from a grand jury in Virginia for racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and other charges on Jan. 5, federal authorities on Thursday arrested four people and executed more than 20 search warrants in the U.S. and eight foreign countries, seizing 18 domain names and an estimated $50 million in assets, including servers run in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

MegaUpload is a "digital locker" that allows users to store files that can then be streamed or downloaded by others. Its subsidiary site MegaVideo became very popular for the unauthorized downloads of movies and TV shows. Users whose uploaded content proved particularly popular were paid for their participation.

DOCUMENT: Read the indictment against MegaUpload

In a joint statement, the Justice Department and FBI called the action "among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States."

Ira Rothken, an attorney for MegaUpload, said in an interview that he only learned of the actions in a press release this morning and had not yet read the entire indictment. "Our initial impression is that the allegations are without merit and MegaUpload is going to vigorously contest them," he said. "We have deep concerns over due process and assets being taken without the opportunity for a hearing."

According to the indictment, the operators of MegaUpload earned more than $175 million in illegal profits and caused an estimated $500 million in harm to copyright holders.

The site is advertised as having more than 50 million daily visitors, according to federal authorities.

Four of MegaUpload's operators have been arrested in New Zealand, while three more remain at large. The seven each face a maximum of 55 years in prison.

Not listed on the indictment is rapper Swizz Beatz -- real name Kasseem Dean -- who, according to a report in the New York Post, is the CEO of MegaUpload. Beatz is married to pop singer Alicia Keys.

Rothken said that Beatz had not been running the site but that recently there had been "a transition period going on."

The news is sure to be welcome in the entertainment industry, whose leaders have faced a recent setback in their push for the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act. The proposed bills, if passed, would make it easier for U.S. courts to go after piracy sites that, unlike MegaUpload, operate entirely overseas.

Critics who believe the bills are heavy-handed and don't adequately protect civil liberties conducted a U.S. Internet "blackout." As many as 10,000 websites went black Wednesday, among them Wikipedia, Craigslist and Reddit. The protest helped to pressure lawmakers to oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The Obama administration announced its opposition to the bills in their current forms Saturday.

[Update, 2:55 p.m.: The websites of the Justice department and Universal Music Group, which had been involved in litigation with MegaUpload, were down on Thursday. The sites were attacked by members of the hacker group Anonymous in response to the actions against MegaUpload, according to a report on CNET News.]