The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant drops in network traffic as a result? http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-shari...
Interesting… it looks like they seized the servers and didn't touch DNS. -bash-3.00$ nslookup megaupload.com Non-authoritative answer: Name: megaupload.com Address: 174.140.154.22 Name: megaupload.com Address: 174.140.154.23 Name: megaupload.com Address: 174.140.154.24 Name: megaupload.com Address: 174.140.154.20 Name: megaupload.com Address: 174.140.154.21 DNS still points to Mega Upload's IPs. On Jan 19, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Ryan Gelobter wrote:
The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant drops in network traffic as a result?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-shari...
Anon has already retaliated http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/ On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 04:41:02PM -0600, Ryan Gelobter wrote:
The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant drops in network traffic as a result?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-shari...
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://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment 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-...
Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/before-shutdown-megaupload-ate-...
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?
<nitpick> As a matter of techincal accuracy, The Ars Technica article reports that monitored corporate networks had more traffic to/from megaupload.com than to/from several other 'cyberlocker' operations, inncluding ones that were more focused on the 'corporate' market. 'quite a source of bandwidth usage' is a bit of an overstatement, as the traffic to/from Megaupload was somewhat over 20 terabyes, out of a total of 10,900+ terabytes of monitored traffic. Or about 0.189% of corporate usage on the monitored networks. </nitpick>
For us (AS11666), about 3-4% of total traffic typically.... Paul -----Original Message----- From: Paul Graydon [mailto:paul@paulgraydon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Megaupload.com seized 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://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file -sharing-website/ 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- up-more-corporate-bandwidth-than-dropbox.ars
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