Published on May,22 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...of "hacktivists," briefly shut the Justice Department website earlier this year after the file-sharing website Megaupload was seized.It has attacked sites of groups as varied as MasterCard and Visa, and the Tunisian and ...
Published on April,30 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...will face extradition proceedings brought by US authorities in August.The US Justice Department and FBI allege Megaupload and related sites netted more than $175 million in criminal proceeds and cost copyright owners mor...
Published on April,26 2012 - by Forbes
...any sites to a stand-still on January 19, 2012. This was the same day that the Department of Justice shut down MegaUpload. This site was based in Hong Kong and was dedicated to file sharing and viewing. DOJ obtained indi...
Published on April,24 2012 - by Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A global trade deal to stop copyright theft could give internet providers the right to spy on users, breaching European Union law, the EU's data privacy chief said on Tuesday. Several governments in ...
Published on April,20 2012 - by Reuters
...ical grouping in the country. The arrest of Kim Dotcom, a German national who founded online file-sharing site Megaupload.com, earlier this year is the most prominent recent case of authorities cracking down on copyright...
Published on April,19 2012 - by US News and World Report
... measures taken by the government regarding Megaupload were probably, according to them, necessary because the Megaupload operators were hiding. No one knew where the company was. It was unclear who the operators were. T...
Published on April,16 2012 - by Forbes
...porters or detractors are willing to budge an inch on some of the most basic philosophical questions at stake. Megaupload won?t be the last site to come under the fist of government intervention, and groups like Anonymou...
Published on April,13 2012 - by Reuters
... government and the taxpayer." An added complication to the case has been requests made by some subscribers to Megaupload who had used the service as an online storage facility and have asked that their material be retur...
Published on March,26 2012 - by Reuters
...succumb to industry pressure to find a sustainable model for online content over the long term. The closure of Megaupload came hot on the heels of two online bills in the United States - the House of Representative's Sto...
Published on March,22 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...s and cost copyright owners over $500 million by offering pirated copies of movies, TV shows and other content.Megaupload was founded in 2005 but shut down in January after the Auckland raid.A US application for Dotcom's...