A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

Most of the servers of Megaupload are still ready to become operational again (except probably for those in Holland and the States, there goes a lot of their business). If they can get the operation back again (that is someone signing orders and checkbooks) the millions of files can become operational again under another name (Google gives us 8 million active links on the domainname). 

Secondly numerous other services and new possibilities are popping up while a whole bunch of other services is under investigation or is closing down or throwing away masses of files (millions in total) has planned meetings with the FBI or is invited to a hearing. This means that the searchengines and the linklists that aren't updating daily have an enormous load of dead links. Links to downloadable content should be not older than a week.

1. FileServe - Closing does not sell premium.
2. - FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S..
3. - UploadStation - Locked in the U.S..
4. - FileSonic locked all downloads by third parties  (under FBI investigation).
5. - VideoBB - Closed! would disappear soon.
6. - Uploaded - Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
7. - FilePost - Deleting all material (so will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
8. - Videoz - closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
9. - 4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
10. - MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI (expect it to close or delete everything 'interesting')

Online streamingsites are also under investigation and some have already been closed down. For many youngster this is enough, they don't have to download the movie, they just want to see it (and the real freaks will buy the movie if they like it so much).

Another element that wasn't mentioned in the media at all was that Megaupload was going to change its businessmodel in the coming months (making it hard to pursue an ongoing investigation) in which artists would be paid for their FREE downloads (advertising en premium contracts) and would receive 90% of the sum people paid for other downloads. Hear that Apple and the Music companies, paying the artists 90% of the price. An overhead of only 10%. Okay you would be probably responsable for your own marketing and advertising and so on, but you would be better able to control the costs of that overhead and change marketingstrategy and so on when you aren't happy.

Filesonic (all my links here to filesonic documents have gone dead) has changed itself overnight without warning into an online backup company (good luck with that :) )

You should also read this very interesting article about how the feds found a way to prosecute and scare all the others (it is called commercial copyright infringement)