Daily Treat: Megaupload Shutdowned By The FBI, Owners Arrested

Megaupload has been Shutdowned By The FBI and Owners are reportedly Arrested, could you believe that after all this time the file sharing sites that are quite popular, from this day can not be accessed anymore because it is force-closed by the FBI and U.S. Justice Department.

Closure of Megaupload was called because on that site found many pirated content that violates intellectual property rights.

As reported by the LA Times, in addition to the megaupload.com site closure, founder of Megaupload is also charged with violating intellectual property rights law.

Kim Dotcom (formerly named Kim Schmitz) and Mathias Ortmann, the two founders Megaupload, rumored to have been arrested in New Zealand.

Currently, Megaupload http://www.megaupload.com addresses which have been inaccessible again. Similarly, all download links that is placed on the Megaupload file can not be accessed.

However, the group Anonymous, via his Twitter account (@ YourAnonNews), mentions Megaupload already online again. However, this time not using http://www.megaupload.com address, but with a "direct hit" to the IP number, http://109.236.83.66.

On that page, there is the inscription:
WE DO NOT HAVE ANY DOMAIN NAME FOR NOW, ONLY THIS IP ADDRESS (http://109.236.83.66) pishing THE SITES TO BEWARE!
This is the NEW SITE MEGAUPLOAD! We Are Working to be back full again

Based on this information, it looks like Megaupload is trying to get online again. We'll just wait and see how they will react on this shutdown of megaupload.com by the FBI.