Megaupload

Megaupload Lawyer: Piracy Case 'Flawed From The Start'

Reuters | Posted 06.01.2012

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for popular file-sharing company Megaupload, accused of copyright theft and internet piracy, have moved to have the cas...

Google vs. Hollywood: The Worst of Enemies, The Best of Friends (Potentially)

Robert Simpson | Posted 05.22.2012

Robert Simpson

The battle raging between the big Hollywood film studios and the giant of Silicon Valley is probably the most pointless and futile conflict being rage...

Megaupload Founder's Wife: Return My Property

Posted 05.15.2012

What do a $157,000 Mercedes-Benz, a Chanel diamond watch and a Christian Colin sculpture have in common? According to the New Zealand Herald, they ...

The Long and Winding Road To A Bad Call On 'Piracy'

Art Brodsky | Posted 04.25.2012

Art Brodsky

It's time for the industry to start listening to what they have been told by their audience -- that there have to be new, better and more convenient ways to get access to content.

Government Gamers

Brian LaSorsa | Posted 04.16.2012

Brian LaSorsa

The Department of Homeland Security had awarded a contract worth more than $177,000 to the California-based Obscure Technologies to create a tool that will allow the government to extract information from gaming consoles.

Judge To Decide The Fate Of Millions Of Megaupload Files

AP | By MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 04.16.2012

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — It's a cache of data roughly equivalent to half of the Library of Congress and nobody quite knows what to do with it. ...

Megaupload Founder Recording An Album

AP | Posted 04.02.2012

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, is being allowed back online. Dotcom was previously denied Inter...

Kim Dotcom: US Military Had 15,634 Megaupload Accounts

Torrent Freak | Posted 05.27.2012

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Hosting Company Says It Can't Afford To Keep Megaupload Data

AP | NICK PERRY | Posted 03.22.2012

-- The company hosting the frozen data of millions of users of the file sharing site Megaupload says somebody needs to pay the company's bill or allo...

After Megaupload Bust, Web Users Turn To Other Sharing Sites

Wired | Posted 03.09.2012

The Feds shut down Megaupload two months ago, but browser-based filesharing hasn’t slowed down. It has just moved to other websites. ...

U.S. Requests Extradition

AP | Posted 03.05.2012

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Federal prosecutors in the United States have filed papers in New Zealand seeking the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim...

U.S. Loses Appeal To Have Kim Dotcom Sent Back To Jail

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2012

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The founder of the online file-sharing site Megaupload.com has asked a New Zealand court to free nearly a quarter of a million ...

Meet Kim Dotcom, The 'Superhacker' At The Center Of The Megaupload Takedown

AP | By NICK PERRY | Posted 02.27.2012

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- On his way up, he fooled them all: judges, journalists, investors and companies. Then the man who renamed himself Kim Dotc...

Megaupload Founder Granted Bail -- As Long As He Doesn't Use The Internet

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 02.22.2012

After a month behind bars, Kim Dotcom, founder of recently shuttered cloud-based content locker service Megaupload, has been granted bail by a New Zea...

Lady Gaga, Jack White, Norah Jones And More: 10 Musicians OK With Piracy

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis and Catharine Smith | Posted 02.09.2012

Following the massive web protests over Congress' online copyright protection bills SOPA and PIPA, as well as the high-profile takedown of file-hostin...

Flight Risk?

AP | Posted 02.03.2012

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The jailed founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload is complaining that women inmates are giving him unwanted attenti...

Group Comes To Aid Of Megaupload Users

Reuters | Jeremy Pelofsky | Posted 04.03.2012

By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the ...

Feds May Have Monitored Megaupload Skype Chats Via Spyware

CNET | Posted 02.02.2012

One of the most curious aspects of the U.S. government's case against MegaUpload is the large number of the company's internal communications acquired...

The Debate Over Anti-Piracy Laws

Toni Johnson | Posted 04.01.2012

Toni Johnson

Since the future of SOPA and PIPA is largely in doubt, industry and lawmakers are left looking for a path forward. But the debate is not confined to the United States; digital piracy is increasingly being touted as an international trade concern.

Saki Knafo

Anonymous And The War Over The Internet (Part II)

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.01.2012

This is the second part of a two-part series on Anonymous, the amorphous Internet group that has emerged as a force in global affairs. In the first pa...

MegaUpload's User Data Safe -- For Now

CNET | Posted 01.31.2012

With MegaUpload disabled by the feds and accused of widespread piracy, and many of its top managers in jail or out on bail, there has been no way for ...

Saki Knafo

Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.31.2012

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have becom...

Megaupload Users May Lose Their Data

AP | JOSHUA FREED | Posted 03.30.2012

Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged...

Web Wars

John Giacobbi | Posted 03.29.2012

John Giacobbi

These "Web Wars" threaten to rage on for some considerable time yet -- particularly when Congress tries to reintroduce SOPA by the back door on a Friday evening when no one is looking.

What's Behind Washington's About Face On Internet Piracy

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 03.27.2012

Kevin Bermeister

Behind the SOPA legislative scene a very different and highly competitive industrial-scale battle is being fought by publishers of the web's content, Internet service providers (the final distributors of content) and copyright owners, including Hollywood.