Megaupload inaccessible?

Big surprises tonight, Megaupload, the 13th most visited site in the world has been shut down by the FBI and Kim Dotcom, its founder was accused of violating copyright laws. Megaupload would be accused of causing a loss of over $ 500 million to the beneficiaries due to hosting films and other content made available illegally by clients of Megaupload.

How Megaupload has been closed?

I thought that was not Megaupload hosted in the United States, yet it would seem that some of the staff were there. For info, Megaupload is a company based in Hong Kong. According Erebuss (via Twitter) is Carpathia Hosting company that hosts some of the infrastructure Megaupload and this company is located in Virginia. This is also from Virginia came the complaint. Therefore relatively easy for the FBI to shut down the site (or at least, make it inaccessible temporarily) through Carpathia.

The FBI also seized 18 domain names belonging to the Galaxy Mega.

Who was arrested?

They are seven people and two companies (Megaupload Limited and Limited Vestor) who have been indicted in the United States. In the announcement of the FBI, Megaupload is designated as an international criminal enterprise. All these people risk 20 years in prison. Charged are:

Kim Kim Schmitz aka Dotcom or Jim Kim Tim Vestor, CEO of Megaupload, a resident of Hong Kong which I had reported the interview here.
Batato Finn, director of marketing, based in Germany
Julius Bencko, designer living in Slovakia
Sven Echternach, technical director, living between Germany and Hong Kong
Andrus appointed, a Estionien resident in Turkey and Estonia, which is the lead developer of the Galaxy Mega products.
Bram van der Kolk, alias Bramos, a Dutch living between the Netherlands and New Zealand, which manages all the infrastructure network
They were all arrested in New Zealand today, except Bencko Echternach and who are appointed at large.

What is wrong with Megaupload one?

The charges relate mainly to the failure of U.S. law against piracy. For full details, I recommend reading the pavement of the FBI.

Stats Megaupload

According to the FBI, Megaupload, 150 million was recorded (and me and me and me ...) and 50 million visitors per day.

Is Megaupload return?

I doubt it ... saw that Kim was arrested, it seems over ... You can write off your premium subscription.

Do we go to jail because we made a premium account with Megaupload?

Frankly, I do not think ... Unless they start to build a prison for 150 million people of that side, I think we all will be quiet. So do not worry, I'll keep you posted.

Does it have to be sad?

No ... There are still thousands of sites that do exactly the same thing as Megaupload. Some will be afraid and close in the coming days, but others will take the place of Megaupload fairly quickly.

What would replace Megaupload?

I'll let you look ;-) I have published what is on this site.