MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive'

[wraggster]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has declared that the Megaupload shutdown earlier this year has been a great success (http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-megaupload-shutdown-was-massive-success-121205/). In a filing to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the group representing major movie studios says the file hosting and sharing industry has been massively disrupted (http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/05/mpaa-the-impact-of-megaupload-shutdown-was-massive-and-the-hub-landscape-is-still-recovering/). Yet the MPAA says there is still work to be done, identifying sites that make available to downloaders 'unauthorized copies of high-quality, recently-released content and in some cases, coordinate the actual upload and download of that content.' Here's the list of sites, including where they are hosted: Extratorrent (Ukraine), IsoHunt (Canada), Kickass Torrents (Canada), Rutracker (Russia), The Pirate Bay (Sweden), Torrentz (Canada), and Kankan (China)."