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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/t...ith-piracy.html



Indictment Charges Megaupload Site With Piracy

The federal authorities on Thursday announced that they had charged seven people connected to the Web site Megaupload, including its founder, with running an international criminal enterprise centered on copyright infringement on the Internet.

According to a grand jury indictment, Megaupload � one of the most popular �locker� services on the Internet, which lets users anonymously transfer large files � generated $175 million in income for its operators through subscription fees and advertising, while causing $500 million in damages to copyright holders.

Four of the seven people, including the site�s founder Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, have been arrested in New Zealand, the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday; the three others remain at large. The seven � who a grand jury indictment calls part of a �Mega Conspiracy� � have been charged with five counts of copyright infringement and conspiracy, the authorities said.

The charges, which the government agencies said represented �among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States,� come at a charged time, a day after online protests against a pair of antipiracy bills being considered by Congress � the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, in the House, and the Protect I.P. Act, or PIPA, in the Senate.

The indictment was handed down by a grand jury in Virginia two weeks ago, but was unsealed on Thursday, and stems from a federal investigation that began two years ago.

The Megaupload case touches on many of the most controversial aspects of the antipiracy debate.

Megaupload and similar locker sites, like Rapidshare and Mediafire, are often promoted as being convenient ways to legitimately transfer large files � a recent promotional video had major stars like Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas singing Megaupload�s praises. But they have become notorious among media companies, who see them as abetting copyright infringement on a large scale by giving people easy, but unauthorized, access to movies, music and other content.

Megaupload is currently engaged in a lawsuit with Universal over the promotional video and Universal�s efforts to have it removed from YouTube.

As part of the crackdown on Megaupload, 20 search warrants were executed in nine countries, including the United States. About $50 million in assets were also seized, as well as a number of servers and 18 domain names, the authorities said.

Ira P. Rothken, a lawyer for Megaupload, said in a phone interview on Thursday afternoon that he had not yet seen the indictment, but he added: �Clearly we have due process concerns. This was done without a hearing.�

beginning of the end

Of what? Napster part 2?

What sucks is that we used this site for work purposes all the time. We had lots of free lance artists, and partners that would send us huge files using megaupload.

We create digital content!

WTF. You idiots just took down the best of the 1clicks.

fucking anti-piracy ******s

That site is amazing.

Yeah its probably napster part 2 but im hoping something can evolve out of it or if they will stay online after things may become settled.

Pirate bay was the same a few years back but they are still doing okay, im hoping for the people at Megaupload that they will stay afloat.

anonymous responds...

http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-do...ersal-sopa-235/

Re: megaupload.com is shutdown..

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Originally posted by geroin the site�s founder Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz,

she changed her last name to Dotcom?
thats something i wouldve expected from swamper.

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Originally posted by hax-a-million anonymous responds... http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-do...ersal-sopa-235/

Boy do they ever

they seized all the property too...

http://documents.latimes.com/justic...ite-megaupload/

you can see on pg 66

It was actually surprising that the site lasted as long as it did... fastest downloads of all the share sites, minor download size limits, and whatever else. Anonymous doesn't f around. Those guys are serious

Sooner or later we will be stuck using IRC / FTP servers to get files.

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Originally posted by jester Sooner or later we will be stuck using IRC / FTP servers to get files.

mmmm irc. i miss those days.
fserve ftw.

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Originally posted by geroin they seized all the property too... http://documents.latimes.com/justic...ite-megaupload/ you can see on pg 66

megaporn.com....love it

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Authorities said the operation had generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships.

Nice!

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To shut down Megaupload, federal authorities executed 20 search warrants in eight countries, seizing 18 domain names and $50 million worth of assets, including servers in Virginia, Washington, the Netherlands and Canada.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/20/busin....html?hpt=hp_t3

Fun fact: megaupload is run by rapper/producer and Alicia Keys' husband Swizz Beatz.

If Anon wanted to do some real damage, they would find a way into the DoJ database and destroy everything.

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH fucking anti-piracy ******s

To be the devils advocate. While many use it for legit purposes, it's definitely also used to pirate software/movies/music on a massive scale. Anyone who tries to dispute that fact is either an idiot, or blind!

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Originally posted by Prometheus Xex To be the devils advocate. While many use it for legit purposes, it's definitely also used to pirate software/movies/music on a massive scale. Anyone who tries to dispute that fact is either an idiot, or blind!

exactly....if you are going to run illegal business practices then expect your legal business practices to be affected as well.

What about Rapidshare, divshare etc...? Any word on those sites?

Loads of file-sharing sites are still around, and for any one that they take down - 3 more will pop right back up.

Shame for the people who used the site for legitimate/legal purposes. But yeah, the main thing on that site was copyrighted content. I will admit - most of my TV show watching is stuff I've downloaded from there.

Used to be a time that I'd find all of the DJ sets I wanted on there - although with soundcloud, the use of megaupload for hosting sets seems to have reduced drastically.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced exactly....if you are going to run illegal business practices then expect your legal business practices to be affected as well.

It's too bad for the legal people, but that's the chance they have to take. The only way to circumnavigate this problem would be to physically check every file being stored, and that would definitely open up a whole lot of privacy complaints.

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Originally posted by Prometheus Xex To be the devils advocate. While many use it for legit purposes, it's definitely also used to pirate software/movies/music on a massive scale. Anyone who tries to dispute that fact is either an idiot, or blind!

shut down malls because there's people doing drug deals in them!

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH shut down malls because there's people doing drug deals in them!

If you could prove that the mall was knowingly renting out space for the drug users, or purposely turning a blind eye when they were informed of such users, then, yeah you could build a case for shutting the mall down.

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