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Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Graydon)
Thu Jan 19 18:28:15 2012
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:27:21 -1000
From: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 01/19/2012 12:41 PM, Ryan Gelobter wrote:
> The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant
> drops in network traffic as a result?
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment
> http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/
Ars Technica are implying it was quite a source of bandwidth usage
within companies. I'm curious, are any interesting charts on an ISP side?
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/before-shutdown-megaupload-ate-up-more-corporate-bandwidth-than-dropbox.ars