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March 2015 – RapidShare – once one of the most famous file hosting services – shuts down. [141] April 2015 – Grooveshark, music streaming site, shuts down. [142] August 2015 – Video sharing website Openload.co comes online. [143] The FBI seize the file sharing site ShareBeast and arrest its administrator, Artur Sargsyan. [144]
The service was shut down and became read-only on June 15, and its users have been encouraged to subscribe to the Pinboard service. [31] As of July 15, 2020, Maciej Ceglowski, owner of Pinboard, announced plans to restore the site to a explorable state and allow data export provided users have their login credentials. [32]
The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. [4] Its technology enabled people to easily share their MP3 files with other participants. [5] Although the original service was shut down by court order, the Napster brand survived after the company's assets were liquidated and purchased by other companies through bankruptcy proceedings. [6]
RapidShare was founded by Christian Schmid in Mulheim, Germany, initially as ezShare later Rapid Share, a file hosting service for his RapidForum web forum hosting services. [2] In 2004, he started the company RapidShare AG, which went online in August 2004 [ 3 ] then moved its premises to Baar, Switzerland in 2006. [ 4 ]
Parse, Inc. was a company acquired by Meta (then named Facebook) in 2013 and shut down in January 2017. [1] [2] They developed a MBaaS platform, Parse.Following the announcement in 2016 of the impending shutdown, the platform was subsequently open sourced.
TikTok will shut down its music streaming service beginning Nov. 28, just two years after parent company ByteDance aimed to compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music ().. The company is ...
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police ...
Hacktivist group Anonymous retaliated with massive distributed denial-of-service attacks against the websites of the RIAA, MPAA, BMI, FBI, and many others. [15]Various web companies have expressed their concerns with the future of file storage websites – specifically the powers that are available to the US government to seize websites.