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"Hacking group Anonymous has distanced itself from a new website intending to replace the recently shut-down Megaupload, warning that the purported file-sharing service is most likely a &amp;quot;scam&amp;quot;. Megaupload.com was closed down by US authorities last week after a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation of the site, which attracted around 50m visitors a day.  Megaupload founders, including Kim Dotcom, have been arrested and are facing charges of engaging in a &amp;quot;racketeering conspiracy&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;conspiring to commit copyright infringement&amp;quot;. To fill the void left by Megaupload, the Anonyupload.com venture apparently hopes to buy server space to enable users to share videos, music and other files.  The group has issued a plea for the donation of funds so it that it can launch this week. Its infrastructure is to be hosted in Russia to circumvent US laws. Anonyupload.com hopes to generate enough cash to enable it to go live on Friday, but payments service PayPal has already shut down its donations account. The site, which was registered yesterday, said that it wants to act as a &amp;quot;replacement to Megaupload.com&amp;quot;, but admits that it is not a member of Anonymous.  Anonymous took down a number of major websites last week, including the US Department of Justice and the Motion Picture Association of America, in retaliation for the Megaupload closure.   However, the hacking group has warned people that it is not &amp;quot;affiliated&amp;quot; with Anonyupload and alleged that the site is a &amp;quot;scam&amp;quot;. Posting on the @YourAnonNews Twitter page, the group said: &amp;quot;FYI - We have NO affiliation with this site, and by the looks of it, this is a SCAM - anonyupload.com.&amp;quot; In a message on its website, Anonyupload insisted: &amp;quot;So, we will open Friday, because without money, we can&amp;#039;t buy servers, bandwidth. &amp;quot;Trust me, we are not trying to SCAM people. Thank you! We are setting up servers. Each user gets a FTPs access, which can be used to safely transfer files.&amp;quot; After the closure of Megaupload, various other sites have moved to shut down or limit their file-sharing functions to avoid the attention of US authorities. Filesonic has disabled its sharing functions to only allow users to access their own files, while Uploaded.to has blocked US access to its site entirely. A message says &amp;quot;sorry about that&amp;quot;. The FileServe site has now done the same, posting the following message to users: &amp;quot;FileServe can only be used to download and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally. If this file belongs to you, please login to download it directly from your file manager.&amp;quot; Megaupload co-founder Kim Dotcom will tomorrow hear in a New Zealand court whether his application for bail has been successful, after prosecuting lawyers warned that the multi-millionaire was a flight risk &amp;quot;at the extreme end of the scale&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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