all right it's friday so now let's wind up with your feedback mega upload the f.b.i. shut it down yesterday it's one of the world's largest file sharing sites the f.b.i. allege copyright violations the u.s. worked with other jurisdictions in at least eight countries across europe hong kong new zealand to make arrests of the founder and associates and oversee raids now one hundred fifty million use this site to upload files make uploads lawyers say the site was shut down with no notice and no opportunity to challenge it so we asked you what you thought about due process and the safety of your files online and of course this is just after we've heard that congress put sopa and pipa the online piracy bills on hold after the blackouts and protests earlier this week so what did you have to say you were tween up a storm michael proc up i hope i got that right said feds really send a public message or message to the public at large with timing of mega uploads action a day after sopa online blackout protest interesting point and anonymous in reaction to mega upload took down

ran mega upload a favorite of pop stars who sing its praises in a promotional video. >> i love mega upload. >> reporter: mega upload was a popular hub for illegally downloaded movies, shows and music costing copyright holders more than $5 mill loin in lopts revenue. the company's lawyer say the charges are without merit. part of mega upload's operation is legitimate. but u.s. law enforcement officials say mega upload allowed people to send links to copyrighted movies. others could then be directed to those links even if the material was copyrighted because officials says mega uploaded did you ply indicated those linked and paid outside people to steer internet traffic to those linkses. that meant people at mega upload knew they had pirated material but. helped distribute it. federal officials shut down mega upload's website. when they did that it, the group from anonymous knocked the justin department's website off line. >> i think we'll see this happening. it's an example of the digital wars that exist all over the world with a whole variety of topics not just copyrighted material. >> rep

right said feds really send a public message or message to the public at large with timing of mega uploads action a day after sopa online blackout protest interesting point and anonymous and reaction to make upload took down the d.o.j. and universal music sites some others too and ronald james to davo tweeted about that telling me bad news i got a load but pirates can't be defeated finally at a point in time where it doesn't take money to defeat government hackers work cheap a little bit on the backlash there and dan coldwater shower tweeted us and said the fact that the us exercise arrest warrants and nine different countries to shut down mega upload is terrifying and on concerns about storage for users because. asked about that. said no concern regarding cloud storage upload shared files publicly private storage doesn't servers outside us jurisdiction our best so little advice there from a viewer and d.c. b. via twitter said i'm just wondering why you tube hasn't been taken down search for a copyrighted song and you'll get hundreds of results now i don't know if they answer to that quest

as a means of giving them power for many other things so and the way that you know the rate on mega upload tides in this opens it shows that even without so already in place here they are already arresting image arresting the owners of mega upload and shutting it down and in the future the very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military methods and situation gets worse and then graphically until such point as the notable civil war in the us occurs. now look at what else is making news around the world us our yemen's president. left his nation after a farewell speech in which he apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving the country to have medical treatment in the u.s. after which he says expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh has been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north of nigeria and state of by which he ha

it's called "mega upload," the heavily visited site is said to have 150 million registered users andvisits a day. now, it stands charged with storing and distributing pirated material, and thus robbing copyright holders of more than half a billion dollars. yesterday, the justice department shut it down and released indictments against seven executives. four were arrested at the new zealand mansion of its founder, who goes by the name, "kim dotcom." within hours, the hacker collective called "anonymous" retaliated, shutting down the web sites of the justice deparent and major media groups, including universal music and the motion picture association of america. the government's crackdown came one day after this week's online protests against anti-piracy bills in congress. for more on all of this, we turn to cecilia kang, who's covering it for the "washington post." >> welcome back to the program. it's sounds as it if the website had everything you can imagine, print, video or audio. how did it actually function for it's users? >> it did have all those bits of content. the way it funct

who worked with anonymous on the various operations believes the mega upload shutdown shows the government will act even with all these laws in place. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power for many other things so and the way that you know this that the raid on mega upload tied into cellphones that show that even without so already in place here they are already arresting and arresting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and it appears your very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military methods and situation gets worse and why after lay and felt this point as the notable civil war in the us occurs. well over a million people visited our website called for more on. do join the masses let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available while you know that. egyptian activists have been urging a nationwide street protests sayi

things so and the way that you know this is right on mega upload causing this opening that showed that even without the already in place here they are already arresting and arresting the owner megaupload and shutting it down and in the future very near future. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military not the. situation gets worse in the grass and filth that's going to be notable the war in the us. a million people visit our web site r.t. dot com for more on the sofa and pippa join the masses let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available while you're there. talk. egyptian activists have been urging nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over the country is a long way from becoming democratic they want the downfall of egypt's supreme council of the armed forces and the handover of power to the newly elected parliament saturday's election results from the first post mubarak parliamentary vote saw islamist parties capture an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent and u.s. emb

government was actually a holding up mega upload is the reason they wanted sopa and pipa pass there were some in an example of prime example i was pirate bay that a few congressmen even cited saying you know we can't go after these sites without these bills and you know a day after the internet blackout they actually did go after these sites that the idea that the u.s. doesn't have any laws to protect online infringement is not true. the converse is strengthen copyright laws many times in the last decade and this is just a great example of that you know the prob with mega upload is that there was a lot of innocent people again that had a right to files on their on their website had nothing to do with cut good friends been and they may have lost those permanently so it just is just another example of how copyright laws end up infringing on people's right to free speech or we have to leave it there trevor tim from the electronic frontier foundation thanks for your proper perspective thanks a lot. u.s. senate is not the only ones facing accusations of censorship britain is under fire for th

issued a statement saying maybe hosting does not have and has never had access to the content of mega upload servers and has no mechanism for returning any content residing on such servers to make uploads customers the company also says they have not been given any notice about deleting information to the government so we're not really quite sure where the d.o.j. got this tip about data being wiped out meanwhile defense lawyer iraq and is also trying to regain all that data saying that it's a crucial element of the upcoming legal case between the hong kong company and the department of justice and that's not the only legal challenge of the u.s. is facing here you see they're also facing a legal challenge coming from of the pirate party according to torrent freak parties from around the world are coming together to make a list of every person who's been a fair. by this rate a master list is going to be used to file an official complaint against the us and in an announcement they stated that the seizure of mega upload is an justifiable and is responsible for creating widespread damage they wen

we tell you and i guess against mega upload and then you guys went after a u.s. justice department talked to me about why you picked some of the other websites i think i have a hunch that it might have to do with people and then also what can we expect next and i've been keeping my eyes here on on white house but what's what's on the horizon here will be video us into x. or all the being perpetrated under the banner of. america and so you can you can see the extent to which this was prompted these reactions were prompted by megaupload who got out in about seven minutes and i thought if that's within seventy minutes about. a new status so you've been announced and on this but a press release and or they can do this. and in a few hours so obviously this this could become of the worst time for and sort of the government's standpoint they could not have chosen a worse time to take down the. coming as this is the after all these web sites blacked out in protest of soak in this obviously the make upload issue because of the flaws in the other issues so now in addition

well today we have an update for users of the now sees it file sharing site mega upload yesterday we reported that u.s. prosecutors sent out a notice saying that customers of this site could have all of their data delete it copyrighted material or not by this thursday. and it was all because mega uploads accounts have been frozen since the original original seizure by the f.b.i. on january nineteenth making it impossible for the company to pay its third parties who have been storing the data of the hundred fifty million users however a tweet from defense attorney iraq and said today that carpathia and cogent the two companies storing the information agreed to first serve consumer data for at least another two weeks so mega upload can work with us on proposal now seen as reporting new information on exactly how the f.b.i. obtained lots of its data before it was raided sources say if the government may have remotely implanted cyber spying software called the recorded conversations from skype which helped them build their case against the cloud service d.o.j. claims that they obtained c

so and the way that you know this that this raid on mega upload causing this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and in the future a very near future and. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods situation gets worse and things will escalate until that point as the notable civil war in the us. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe in a farewell speech yemen's president ali abdullah saleh apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving yemen to have medical treatment in the u.s. yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for a sollie who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators he's not expected to return to the country. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling the checkpoint two churches in the area were also

and the white house eric brown who worked with anonymous on various operations believes the mega upload shut down shows the government will act even without these laws in place. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments is such that giving them power to do one thing use almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power many other things so and the way that you know this that this raid on mega upload cards in this opens it shows that even without soap are already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owner and shutting it down and in the future the very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military not goods and situation it's worse in these rascals and smells of war and the notable civil war in the us. over a million people have a now visited our website r.t. dot com for more on software and pippa do join the masses and let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available for you twenty four hours a day at r.t. talk.

and the white house barack brown whose work with anonymous on various operations believes mega upload shut down shows the government could act even without the laws in place the problem is the track record and all government. is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by them so . i mean giving them power. so and the way that you know this is right on mega upload cars and dope and that showed that even without local already in place here they are already arresting and arresting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and in the future the very near future and. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up. more military not. that us and it's worse in the grass and felt that's going to be notable the war in the us. over a million people visit our web site r.t. dot com for more information on this story and join the masses let the let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available at r.t. dot com addiction activists have been urging nationwide street protests. saying the revolution is not ove

we don't expect any one with much sense kept crucial files on mega upload.t is a cautionary cloud. you don't control the cloud. mega upload is the cloud compared to, say, apple or amazon, probably two different things. but still a cautionary tale. >> good to know. thank you. >> 6:26 now. still to come on "today in the bay," police looking for two men responsible for a wetting day stabbing. >> plus, the case against san francisco's moves forward. >> i'm meteorologist christina loren live in the nbc bay area weather center where we're tracking really mild temperatures. you can go sans a jacket. >> i think it means without a jacket. 24 westbound, i'll show you p.at's going on for 880. [people chatting] everyone, it's $37 a piece. paying with your smart phone instead of cash. that's a step forward. with chase person-to-person quickpay, you can send money directly to your friend's checking account. all you need is their email address or mobile number. don't worry honey, i'll show you. thanks everyone. so take a step forward... and chase what matters. >> new this

had seized the file sharing website mega upload as well as arresting seven people connected to the site that includes kim shits a kim dot com the founder of make upload was a dutch citizen and lives in both hong kong and new zealand and the d.o.j. unsealed a federal indictment yesterday charging those arrested with racketeering money laundering and copyright infringement and the indictment alleges that mega upload and a shell company associated with it cause an estimated five hundred million dollars in copyright losses all of this of course happening just one day after the biggest online protest in history in opposition to sopa and protect ip so what does this entire episode tell us about how the feds plan to apply international criminal procedures to internet policy and what happens to all those people that shared files on this site that weren't copyrighted or legal let's not forget megaupload gets about fifty million hits a day claims four percent of all internet traffic and has an estimated one hundred fifty million users who pay for that service so here to discuss with me is julian

s takedown of mega upload doesn't mean for users of the site and for international law even without sopa and pipa the feds are taking down sites around the world caters julian sanchez is going to join us to break it all down then at last night's debate we saw the g.o.p. candidates rail against the president for cutting defense on the backs of our veterans let's be honest defense cuts don't have to equal benefit cuts for the vets so how do we stop this myth and what areas should be on the chopping block instead and the supreme court citizens united decision has now turned into years all sort of look at how it's changed our political system in that time and talk about the protests that took place on the steps of the supreme court this afternoon we'll have all that and more peter night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so last night c.n.n. hosted gets a nother g.o.p. debate it was the second debate this week so we're really heading into the overkill zone here but last night it was down in the final four mitt romney

earlier this month, federal authorities arrested the founder of mega upload and shut down the site. the company's attorney says at least 50 million users have data that could be erased. >>> two d.c. council members are pushing for an investigation into possible corruption by the district's housing agency. michael brown and jim graham say they've uncovered a brazen abuse of authority. they leave housing agency employees are making deals concerning the sale and renovation of city properties that favored certain contractors. the council members specifically cite $4 million given to peaceholics, an anti-gang organization with little housing experience. graham and brown want the d.c. inspector general and attorney general to launch probes. >>> today a coalition of church and elected leaders will be in annapolis to rally against maryland's same-sex marriage bill. the group says it's rejecting an attempt to redefine marriage. governor o'malley proposed an exemption to the legislation that would allow churches to refuse to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. instead, same-sex marriages wo

same time the anonymous hacker group was retaliating against the shut down of file sharing site mega upload and claim to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house aaron brown who worked with anonymous on the various operations believes that mega upload shutdown shows the government will act even without these laws in place the problem is the track record and all governments. is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by them so . i mean giving them power. so and the way that you know the radar make up locales in the open that show that even without already in place here they are already arresting and arresting the owners megaupload and shutting it down and in the future the very near future. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more military methods and you aging it's worse in the grass and felt that's going to be notable civil war in the us. well over a million people visit our web site r.t. dot com for more on stop the paper do join the masses let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a

the same time the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shut down of file sharing site mega upload claiming to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites barrett brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations and is sometimes seen as the face of the group leaves of the mega upload shut down shows the government can even take action without the laws in place. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments. is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so and the way that you know this that the raid on megaupload cars in this opens it shows that even without already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and in the future a very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods situation it's worse in the grass and smells of war and the notables the war in the us the kurds going to take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe

with anonymous on various operations and is sometimes seen as the face of the group believes the mega upload shutdown shows that the government can take action even without the new laws in place. the problem and the track record and all go. it's such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. so and the way that you know the rate on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners megaupload and shutting it down and in the future. there will be a number of other. military. situation it's worse in the grass and stones that were and the notable civil war in the us. more than a million people visit our web site r.t. dot com to get more information on sopa and people you can join then and let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and what else is available online at our team dot com. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe in a farewell speech yemen's president ali abdullah saleh apologized for his mistakes and

websites barack brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations believes that the upload mega upload shutdown shows the government can even take action without the new laws in place. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. things so and the way that you know the rate on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and in the future a very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods situation gets worse and then things will escalate until that point as the notable civil war in the us. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe in a farewell speech yemen's president ali abdullah saleh apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving yemen to have medical treatment in the u.s. yemen's parliament recen

the same time the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shutdown of the file sharing site mega upload claiming to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites barrett brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations believes the mega upload shutdown shows the government will take action even without new laws in place. the problem is the track record and all the. news almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. so the way that you know this is they don't megaupload cards in the snow because it shows that even without soap already in place you're going to know already you're resting and resting your megaupload and shutting it down and in the future the very near future. there will be a number of other. military. situation it's worse in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war. now look at what else is making news around the world this hour yemen's president ali abdullah saleh left his nation after a farewell speech in which he apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving the country to have medical treatment

government over the past year what do you make of that we had the big crackdown on mega upload recently which was a big blow which prompted an immediate response from around the net and that and the community anonymous struck back i found it hard to have a lot of sympathy for a mega upload having been in film myself and having my income depend upon back in net profits which never appeared but nonetheless i don't think it's a major blow and i'm much more concerned about what's hidden behind the sopa axis simpson pose of the as a measure to protect. legitimate copyright or. ownership interest for creative works i think there's a much deeper agenda to show off websites like yours mine and many others around the net that's that's that's buried in the language of the act right but. aside from the obvious censoring what they would love to do in the us because they hate the idea of competition but getting back to the broader issue of copyright itself copyright needs to be the extensions the term extensions of the past couple of decades should be repealed to keep to be in keeping with the const

came in on january nineteenth and raided mega upload in new zealand and detained four people tied to the file sharing site they also froze the accounts of one hundred fifty million registered users even customers of the access to their data which is all stored virtually and they also froze make up loans bank accounts which is important to know because the company hires third parties to store customer data for a fee so inevitably upload can't pay their bills and storage companies carpathia hosting and cogent communications group. for free so they just might start deleting that data as of this thursday february second a letter from u.s. prosecutors announce the data could be deleted as early as this thursday and went on to say that while the us did go through the locker storage company's servers they did not take any information with them they just scanned through them and copied any data that they felt was evidence of a d.o.j. letter also explains of the government is finished with the search warrants and has no right to go back and access the data again meanwhile we're hearing some t

group says its largest ever attack is in response to the shutdown of a major file sharing service mega uploadwhich is affected around fifty million daily users the web site's bosses have been arrested and are now facing prison sentences for copyright infringement u.s. lawmakers are currently debating new bills to curb illegal downloading which have been attacked as an attempt to censor the internet thousands of websites including we keep pedia went black in protest this week at the legislation we're joined now by peter broadwell a campaigner from the open rights group thanks for your time so why should your group can't be concerned about the end type piracy bills are being discussed in the u.s. congress. well i think there's a number of reasons why people all around the world that got so concerned about these two bills firstly the bills and selves seem to be so vague and broadly worded that they they risk giving power to broader power to take down information and content all around the world and that's a concern for stifle innovation or restrict the free flow of information but also many coun

millions of illegal downloads of film music and other content authorities say that the websites mega upload site cost copyright holders at least half a billion dollars in lost revenue these indictments come from the united states because some of the servers for this company's web site or located in virginia hackers responded by attacking the justice department website mega upload said that the majority of its content is legitimate ... >>a south suburban man is recovering we are listening to the banned all bestgroup august ... they will be performing in rosemont at the montrose and man from orland park is recovering and the hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the head with a nail gun and believe it or not he did not even know that he did that until hours later >>nancy loo is live at christ hospital in oak lawn ... dante autullo did not think it was anything serious but now he is recovering from brain surgery the father of four is alert and talking and is disappointed that he is not up and well enough to operate his plow for the snowstorm today >>he is incredibly lucky a few millim