The Justice Department and FBI called the action “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.” How large? MegaUpload advertises that it has more than 50 million visitors a day. Word to the wise, if you’re going to run an illegal piracy syndicate that earns you hundreds of millions of dollars, probably not a good idea to advertise. Promise me you’ll at least consider it.

With MegaUpload up shit’s creek, where are we going to go to watch Fast and the Furious without paying for it? Well, I’m no narc but I hear these six sites got the good stuff.

4shared

4shared is currently the largest file-sharing site on the Internet. They 2.5 billion pageviews per month which is more pageviews than our parents or their parents have ever earned. If Screen Junkies enjoyed that kind of traffic, we’d write all of our posts with Minority Report technology. You can find and share all manner of media on 4shared — text, audio, video, and photos of cats. Just remember, the site is only to be used for storing legal materials.

Mediafire

With MegaUpload cut down at the knees, MediaFire could definitely find themselves on the list. Their service is great, offering unlimited storage space. But you should know that the company “may disclose your personal information or any of its log file information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such actions are necessary to “conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on us; protect and defend the rights or property of MediaFire, or visitors of MediaFire; identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal notice, or the rights of third parties; co-operate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities.”

It’s them or you, man.