As cyberlockers faced increasing legal and operational pressures, digital art archivers shifted heavily toward BitTorrent technology. Unlike Megaupload's centralized model, torrents rely on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network.
: Megaupload was one of the most prominent cloud storage and file-hosting services of the 2000s. It was famously shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2012 due to copyright infringement enforcement. The Digital Archaeology of 2000s File Sharing Met Art Toxic A Karpos Torrent Megaupload Links