Looks like Megaupload’s debacle and downfall is going to have strong aftermath for other file sharing and cyberlocker services. And this is evident from the ceased cyberlocker site Filesonic. Filesonic, which was listed among the top 10 largest file-sharing sites on the internet, got seriously affected by the shutdown of Megaupload. The site suddenly terminated its rewards program and third-party sharing, and lost huge amounts of traffic after the entire Megaupload scenario.

Once having quarter billion page views a month, Filesonic’s Alexa graph showed drastic downfall in traffic this year, leading to sudden cease. Firstly, they terminated the personal revenue generation portion of their services. And from the last few days, Filesonic has been completely unreachable via its .com domain after changes were made to its DNS settings. Strangely, Filesonic.com is now registered to Seychelles-based Renovatio Management Limited, instead of its parent company Earnwell Hong Kong LTD. All in all, no reasons could be found for the sudden disappearance of Filesonic. Besides Filesonic, one more cyberlocker service that vanished is Oron.

Some other file sharing sites that are affected from the entire Megaupload thing include Box.net, Dropbox, and YouSendIt. So, thing is that cloud file sharing sites that fall beneath the umbra of the DMCA and other copyright legislation who also permit users to share large files with one another, are facing tough times. Giving his view on the same, Brian Curry, Chief Product Officer, YouSendIt said,

“It’s reasonably easy for a business like ours to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).” He adds, “But the cloud industry as a whole will be impacted if legislators start writing laws that are overly broad in an effort to get the bad actors. Such broad legislation will make it difficult for cloud companies to do business.”

So, the ground upon which sharing in the cloud is founded seems a little shaky. Unless the service providers do not have their files in order, they may face tough times ahead.