Most of there servers were located in the US. According to the indictment Megaupload leases about 25 petabytes of data storage from Carpathia to store content. They have over 1,000 servers and more than 525 of them are located in Virginia with Carpathia. They were paying Cogent around $1 million a month for bandwidth or hosting services. The U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy. http://bit.ly/wx9DBE (google cache of justice.gov) Megastuff.com, Megaworld.com, Megaclicks.com, Megastuff.info, Megaclicks.org, Megaworld.mobi, Megastuff.org, Megaclick.us, Mageclick.com, HDmegaporn.com, Megavkdeo.com ,Megaupload.com, Megaupload.org, Megarotic.com On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, james@smithwaysecurity.com < james@smithwaysecurity.com> wrote:
Wow, what suprised the servers were, all located offshore.
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----- Reply message ----- From: "Paul Graydon" <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> To: <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Megaupload.com seized Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 7:27 pm
On 01/19/2012 12:41 PM, Ryan Gelobter wrote:
The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant drops in network traffic as a result?
http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-shari... Ars Technica are implying it was quite a source of bandwidth usage within companies. I'm curious, are any interesting charts on an ISP side?
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/before-shutdown-megaupload-ate-...