Megaupload Lawyer: Piracy Case 'Flawed From The Start'
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for popular file-sharing company Megaupload, accused of copyright theft and internet piracy, have moved to have the cas...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for popular file-sharing company Megaupload, accused of copyright theft and internet piracy, have moved to have the cas...
Robert Simpson | Posted 05.22.2012
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...
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 ...
Art Brodsky | Posted 04.25.2012
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.
Brian LaSorsa | Posted 04.16.2012
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.
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Toni Johnson | Posted 04.01.2012
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
John Giacobbi | Posted 03.29.2012
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.
Kevin Bermeister | Posted 03.27.2012
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.
Reuters | Posted 06.01.2012