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Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Gelobter)
Thu Jan 19 19:20:36 2012
In-Reply-To: <E1Ro1nk-000BLL-OV@mailman.nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:19:43 -0600
From: Ryan Gelobter <ryan.g@atwgpc.net>
To: "james@smithwaysecurity.com" <james@smithwaysecurity.com>,
NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Most of there servers were located in the US. According to
the indictment Megaupload leases about 25 petabytes of data storage from
Carpathia to store content. They have over 1,000 servers and more than 525
of them are located in Virginia with Carpathia. They were paying Cogent
around $1 million a month for bandwidth or hosting services.
The U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18
domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.
http://bit.ly/wx9DBE (google cache of justice.gov)
Megastuff.com, Megaworld.com, Megaclicks.com, Megastuff.info,
Megaclicks.org, Megaworld.mobi, Megastuff.org, Megaclick.us, Mageclick.com,
HDmegaporn.com, Megavkdeo.com ,Megaupload.com, Megaupload.org, Megarotic.com
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, james@smithwaysecurity.com <
james@smithwaysecurity.com> wrote:
> Wow, what suprised the servers were, all located offshore.
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Paul Graydon" <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
> To: <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Megaupload.com seized
> Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 7:27 pm
>
>
> 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
>
>
