FileSonic.com feels the pinch after the Feds take down of Megaupload.com
Channel: THE WATCH TOWERS
Date: 2012-01-23

The new notice on the website informs users that:

"All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally."

This new policy is in stark contrast to just earlier this week when FileSonic.com was hosting and serving up files left right and center and was trying to get more people to share there files on their service as they looked to capture market share from such file sharing sites as Megaupload.

This turn about @ Filesonic is following the recent MegaUpload indictments last week.

Redditors are saying that administrators @ filesonic have already begun deleting files and even accounts, ZDNet's Zack Whittaker notes.

TorrentFreak called the development "a pretty big deal. Filesonic isn't just some also-ran in the world of cyberlockers. The site is among the top 10 file-sharing sites on the Internet, with a quarter billion page views a month."

The events of the last week have shaken the file serving world resulting in what is quite literally panic among the users and the sites operators.

The Megaupload.com take down seems to be a real game changer.

SOURCE: http://www.thewatchtowers.com/filesonic-com-feels-the-pinch-after-the-feds-take-down-of-megaupload-com/