how can compare MU to this site? MU was hosting tons of copyrighted content. From movies, to music, to pc games, software, console games and much much more. Not only that it even tried to promote the site by using famous hip hop and r n b artists to make a song about it attracting even more youngetsrs to file share from it. The ceo was swizz beats a famous hip hop producer and artist. It started branching out creating mega moviez, mega porn, mega music and so on. It offered points to uploaders if they had enough ppl d/ing their content from unique ip addresses thus encouraging members to upload all sorts of content and to advertise content on all types of sites like warez, social and file sharing sites cos if you garnered enough points you could even get a free lifetime membership but that was highly suspect cos they made obtaining the points extremely difficult and the pts numbered in the millions. You see how much revenue was lost by pc companies, movie and music companies and basically anyone whose ideas and work could be stored on a pc harddrive was at risk to be uploaded and d/led by others for free so it included authors of all sorts of books too since books have started becoming e books too and obviously much more. Not only did MU do it other file hosting sites were hot on its heels like file sonic and file serve for eg. Also prior to MU being taken down hotfile was actually pretty famous and before hotfile was rapidshare which still exists today and is still the only popular site that allows you to d/l files from others ironically going back to number 1 today. The rest don't allow 3rd party users to d/l any files from other uploaders and those that do aren't famous at all but small time file hosting sites.
I hear that they are going after youtube but now the places to get content are torrents and usenet. Still not too bad. Oh yes another file hosting site that has not closed down and is probably as old as MU and even offers non members unlimited downloads with no limits is mediafire. Just go to the sex forum and you can find ppl hosting on that site. Ah sam also tried to get a piece of the pie in the file hosting business making it a requirement for file uploaders to put his registered file sonic account when they wanted to host file sonic files on the sex forum for d/l. Cos when ppl d/l from them he gets a share of the money too. Too bad that's gone for him now.