Megaupload Shutdown Fails to Slow File Sharing

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Some interesting & informative data from PCMag.com

Megaupload Shutdown Fails to Slow File Sharing

By Chloe Albanesius February 9, 2012

Megaupload has been down for three weeks now, and while Internet traffic took a dive in the immediate aftermath of the shutdown, file-sharing activity has not decreased, with users simply moving to other services, according to a new report.

As noted by ITWorld, Much of the file-sharing activity has now shifted to Europe, and in particular, a site known as Putlocker, DeepField Networks said in a blog post this week.

On Jan. 18, one day before Megaupload was taken offline for massive copyright infringement, it had 34.1 percent of all file-sharing traffic, followed by FileSonic at 19.1 percent. Putlocker, RapidShare, and Vidoezer all had about 4 percent.

"MegaVideo was clearly the king," DeepField wrote. "In turn, most MegaVideo servers leveraged U.S.-based servers in Carpathia Hosting with some traffic going to Leaseweb servers in the Netherlands and other European providers / facilities."

After Megaupload went down, Internet traffic dropped by an "astounding" 2-3 percent, DeepField said. But that didn't last very long. By the end of the day on Jan. 19, there was simply "a significant re-allocation of Internet file sharing traffic." Putlocker had 27.5 percent of file sharing on Jan. 19, followed by "Other" at 17.1 percent and NovaMov at 14.6 percent, DeepField found.

FileSonic disabled file sharing in the wake of the Megaupload takedown, while other sites have shut down completely or cut off access for U.S. users.

"The main impact of the MegaUpload takedown? Well, file sharing has not gone away. It did not even decrease much in North America," DeepField said. "Mainly, file sharing became staggeringly less efficient. Instead of terabytes of North America MegaUpload traffic going to US servers, most file sharing traffic now comes from Europe over far more expensive transatlantic links."

According to January data from Sandvine, visits to Megaupload – which also includes MegaVideo, MegaPix, MegaLive, and MegaBox – made up 1 percent of total traffic on fixed access networks in North America.

"What will happen now that Megaupload has been taken down? The most likely scenario is that users will switch to other Storage and Back-Up Services and video sites, causing new category leaders to emerge," Sandvine said at the time. "Currently the second most popular Storage and Back-up Service varies by region, but some of the top contenders to replace Megaupload are Rapidshare, zShare, Hotfile, and MediaFire."

For more, see After Megaupload: 7 Sites the FBI Might Target Next? and What Is Megaupload?

And for his fans, here's the latest snap of Jabba-the-Hut, er, Kim Dot-Com, large and (formerly) in-charge...
 

JavjavJAV

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Thanks for the info
filehosting business is never ending business
one down and then ten comes up

never heard about putlocker too xD
 

macchan

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Why the major don't provide a system like Megaupload and many other file sharing site ?
The net and artist don't need majors.
 

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Thanks for the infos, it's the first time I hear about Putlocker lol. The source (because we like to source articles) :joker:

Yeah, I hadn't heard of Putlocker either and how it managed to be heard of by, like, no one and especially how it managed to rocket from next-to-nowhere to 27.5% of file-sharing traffic in, like, one day(!) without any of us apparently having ever even encountered it--well, I'm still shaking my head over that one. :puzzled: :dunno: :surprised:

Sorry about forgetting to provide the source... :dozingoff:
 

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On Jan. 18, one day before Megaupload was taken offline for massive copyright infringement, it had 34.1 percent of all file-sharing traffic, followed by FileSonic at 19.1 percent. Putlocker, RapidShare, and Vidoezer all had about 4 percent.

"MegaVideo was clearly the king," DeepField wrote. "In turn, most MegaVideo servers leveraged U.S.-based servers in Carpathia Hosting with some traffic going to Leaseweb servers in the Netherlands and other European providers / facilities."

After Megaupload went down, Internet traffic dropped by an "astounding" 2-3 percent, DeepField said. But that didn't last very long. By the end of the day on Jan. 19, there was simply "a significant re-allocation of Internet file sharing traffic." Putlocker had 27.5 percent of file sharing on Jan. 19, followed by "Other" at 17.1 percent and NovaMov at 14.6 percent, DeepField found

Someone was smoking something good when they came up with those numbers.

mediafire.com is bigger then MU was then and now.
 

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Someone was smoking something good when they came up with those numbers.

mediafire.com is bigger then MU was then and now.

Really? Who's using it? I'm asking because I assume that porn & hollywood movies & television shows are the majority of what's posted to filehosts and I never see mediafire files for this stuff on any of the boards I go to, including this one. And I go to all kinds of boards.

I mean, o.k., a little bit in the last few weeks but still very, very little...
 

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Really? Who's using it? I'm asking because I assume that porn & hollywood movies & television shows are the majority of what's posted to filehosts and I never see mediafire files for this stuff on any of the boards I go to, including this one. And I go to all kinds of boards.

I mean, o.k., a little bit in the last few weeks but still very, very little...

if this board allowing cashlink like linkbux or else, i'm pretty sure many posters would use mediafire I've been thinking about using mediafire but I thought this board doesnt allowing cashlink
 

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I agree with Idolfun, MF was on the same level of traffic than MU before the holocaust.
At least according to the Alexa stats (which may be accurate or not).

Third was 4Shared btw, which shows that the main users of filehosters can be different than the money-hungry crowd.

Now the top 3 is Mediafire, 4Shared and Rapidshare in that order.
 

gyoza ramen & a beer

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...which shows that the main users of filehosters can be different than the money-hungry crowd.

Interesting distinction, that :payup:

Never thought of it in those terms...
 
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Interesting distinction, that :payup:

Never thought of it in those terms...

Sure, there's a huge amount of people out there sharing one or two things at a time on random sites or in chat programs... they would using MF due to its qualities.

When you frequent forums or blog with lots of "professional" uploaders, that's when affiliate programs suddenly become the most important thing about a filehost.