>The primary difference, as far as my understanding, being that the US was really focused on copyright infringement as a top priority evil back when Megaupload

>The primary difference, as far as my understanding, being that the US was really focused on copyright infringement as a top priority evil back when Megaupload existed, and a low-level annoyance in the time of Mega. It also had to do with popularity, I recall reading back then that MU was like a two-digit% of internet traffic, it was BIG. I don't know about other countries but in Mexico everybody was downloading stuff from there, some (pirate obv.) movie websites were nothing more that a shitty frontend that streamed content right from MU. When the US (RIAA and whatnot) shut down MU it was a huge blow against piracy. Mega(.co.nz) could have been an exact clone of MU including the content and still no one really cared to move there, so the copyright mafia didn't even bothered.