InformationWeek - 8 hours ago But the founder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom (aka Kim Tim Jim Vestor, aka Kim Schmitz), has denied all of the charges leveled against him. |
Gizmodo Australia - 6 minutes ago With the popular MegaUpload file sharing website shut down, several other online locker services, all of which have legal uses, are limiting their features or closing down entirely in an apparent effort to avoid MegaUpload's fate: a forced shutdown by ... |
Reuters - 8 hours ago By Michael Perry | AUCKLAND (Reuters) - The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges of internet piracy and money laundering and said authorities were trying to ... |
New York Times (blog) - 2 hours ago By NICOLE PERLROTH | January 23, 2012, 8:30 pm The federal government's takedown of the file-sharing siteMegaupload last week has sent file-sharing sites packing– in some cases, to Russia. |
Reuters - 2 hours ago By Joseph Menn and Sarah McBride | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The crackdown on file-sharing site Megaupload is expected to do little to reduce overall piracy of music, software and Hollywood movies, while potentially stifling emerging means of ... |
TorrentFreak - 7 hours ago A few days after top lawyer Robert Bennett announced he would defend MegaUpload vigorously in their upcoming trial, he has been forced to withdraw from the case. |
Written by Digitaltrends.com - 12 hours ago Anyone who used Megaupload to store files long-term should have read the site's Terms of Service, the Department of Justice tells Digital Trends. |
The Smoking Section - 6 hours ago Although company documents show Beatz, real name Kasseem Dean, owns no part of Megaupload, the hip-hop star was listed as CEO on the site and had advocated the service in promotional videos. |
Washington Post (blog) - 12 hours ago But last week, the US government took down Megaupload, one of the biggest file-sharing sites abroad. Doesn't that suggest new laws aren't necessary? |
Wired.co.uk - 12 hours ago By Nate Anderson The Megaupload takedown, and the arrest of its key employees, might seem to vindicate late 1990s worries about the internet and jurisdiction. |
PCWorld (blog) - 11 hours ago Anonymous allegedly trained its LOIC on several music and entertainment industry-related websites last week after the DOJ shut down MegaUpload and arrested several of the file sharing company's employees (four more were arrested by New Zealand police ... |
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times - 25 minutes ago Founded in 2005, Megaupload.com has been one of many sites that users have used to illegally upload and stream copyrighted media. |
Washington Post - 11 hours ago Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants in the Megaupload case appeared in an Auckland court Monday, which heard arguments over their bail requests. |
Los Angeles Times - Jan 20, 2012 The indictment the Justice Department obtained this month against MegaUpload, a popular online locker and file-sharing service, includes allegations that company executives personally uploaded and downloaded copyrighted content -- a familiar accusation ... |
Betabeat - 13 hours ago Cyberlocker sites have responded with “unprecedented action” to last week's shutdown of Megaupload and the arrests of its founder and top executives. |
Los Angeles Times - 10 hours ago (Associated Press) --Speaking of which, Kim Dotcom, the detained founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, insists he's innocent and poses no flight risk. |
Techworld.com - 10 hours ago By Nancy Gohring | Published: 12:45, 23 January 2012 The people behind Megaupload might be working hard to get the site back up, but so are scammers. |
Norwich Bulletin - 11 hours ago A New Zealand court orders the founder of file sharing websiteMegaupload to be held in custody. There are storm warnings out in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama after a powerful storm system hit parts of the South and the Midwest. |
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog) - 10 hours ago At least one site similar to Megaupload, the file-sharing site that was shut down by US authorities last week, is reportedly disabling its file-sharing capabilities. |
Written by PCWorld (blog) - Jan 20, 2012 The MegaUpload seizure shows how personal files hosted on remote servers operated by a third party can easily be caught up in a government raid targeted at digital pirates. |