Megaupload was one of the most visited sites on the Internet before its take down earlier this month. No one up until now looked at the consequences of that takedown in regards to the traffic the site received. Did it just go *poof* or did users flock to other sites instead to do whatever they [...]

Categories: The Web

When the Megaupload servers were taken down, no one bothered to distinguish legitimate data from data that infringed on the copyright of others. Users who had been using Megaupload as a host for their own files were now in a position where they were denied access to those files, even though they were in many [...]

Categories: The Web

If you are a regular Megaupload user you have probably already noticed that the site and all of the files hosted on its servers are no longer accessible on the Internet. Check out Megaupload Shuts Down, Arrests Have Been Made for an overview of what happened in the past 24 hours. Internet users who have [...]

Categories: ask the readers

The popular file hosting site Megaupload has been shut down by US authorities on Thursday, and the site’s leaders have been charged with widespread online copyright infringement. According to an US Department of Justice press release, Megaupload generated more than “$175 million in criminal proceeds” and caused more than “half a billion dollars in harm [...]

Categories: The Web

Add-ons and extensions that promise to speed up the downloading of files that are hosted on file hosts such as Rapidshare or Megaupload come and go all the time. The main reason for this fluctuation is the cat and mouse game between file hosting providers and extension developers. File hosts obviously are interested that users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, The Web

The majority of file hosting sites on the Internet make use of wait times and download or bandwidth limits to either drive users into buying a premium account for faster downloading or to deliver more advertisements during that time. Download Helper is a new Opera extension that improves the downloading of files from specific file [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

I’m usually not writing about paid services here on Ghacks unless I’m personally using them or combine the review with a giveaway so that my readers can benefit from it directly. Recently I stumbled upon two commercial web services called DownloadNow located at downloadnow.net and Leechget, which is available at leechget.com. These services are interesting [...]

Categories: The Web

File hosting download programs fight a constant battle with file hosting sites. The file hosting sites often change the way downloads are handled to prevent automatic downloads of files from their servers. Megaupload is one of the most popular file hosting sites on the Internet making it a prime target for automatic downloaders. File host [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

Mipony is a file hosting download manager just like our favorite tool for the job JDownloader. One could say it is a less complicated but also less feature rich file host downloader that does not require Java to be installed on the computer system it is running. Mipony supports downloads from a total of 20 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows