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psa be extremely careful what you say online for a while, maybe forever (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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trump's going to kill a bunch of people for this, probably ones you know, maybe you, consider toning down the epic poasting

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[-] Currently_on_Nitrous@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Idk if the Americans could force the French government to cooperate and get them to seize the servers

What.cd was a music/book/software torrent site that rose from the ashes of oink's pink place. The french government indeed seized the the servers at the request of the American Government.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

mega share or whatever it was called back in the day was fully based out of new zealand and the US made a few calls and had Kim DotCom's house raided by NZ swat types and they took his shit and shut the site down

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

yeah, it was famously an illegal raid and they did it anyway

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

MegaUpload, brings back memories of my LUELinks days….

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Oh yea

Good to know, thank you

[-] Currently_on_Nitrous@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah it was pretty fucked up, what.cd had some some of the strictest content rules of any tracker. Just to get on you had to do an interview with an admin with questions ranging from "what kind of music do you listen to?" to "What is your primary mode of transportation?" I think it only had ~300,000 users, you had to maintain a ratio so that every member contributed to the site. Some big artists like Trent Reznor were members and would actually put their own albums up because they knew what users were super vocal about spreading stuff that they like.