With two helicopters, four trucks, dogs and automatic weapons, the Jan. 20 raid of the Megaupload founder’s New Zealand home …
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BitTorrent Index BTjunkie Bites the Dust
BTjunkie.org, a popular site that indexed BitTorrent files for all kinds of legal and illegal content, is waving a white flag.
“This is the end of the line my friends,” the site now reads. “The decision does not come easy, but …
EFF Launches ‘MegaRetrieval’ Site for Megaupload Users
With just two weeks before everything stored on Megaupload potentially gets deleted, help is at hand for those who can’t access legitimate, legal files stored in the now-frozen cloud service. The Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Megaupload: User Data Has Two Weeks to Live
Former users of Megaupload have at least two more weeks to worry about what will happen to their data.
Despite the government’s indications that the Megaupload user data could be deleted by Thursday, Megaupload’s data hosting …
Pay Me My Money Down: Contractors Could Wipe Megaupload User Data Thursday [Updated]
Who knew the ‘D’ in D-Day stood for delete? Make that this Thursday then, when there’s a chance your Megaupload data — legal or no — could be obliterated, according to a letter filed last Friday by the feds.
The …
Photos: The Larger-Than-Life Lifestyle of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom, Megaupload’s founder, was nabbed in a January 20 raid of his New Zealand mansion. Authorities seized 18 luxury cars worth $4.8 million, as well as millions in artwork and electronics. Here are some of the most …
FileSonic File-Sharing Service Next Domino to Fall After Megaupload Bust
Looking to share your important files somewhere safe and secure? Forget FileSonic, formerly one of the world’s largest online file-sharing lockers. In a message just posted to its website, the company says “all sharing …
Megaupload’s Takedown: How Is Swizz Beatz Involved?
Swizz Beatz, a.k.a Kasseem Dean or Mr. Alicia Keys, was officially listed on Megaupload’s website as its CEO prior to the site’s shutdown, but he hasn’t been implicated in the lawsuit that led to the site’s takedown. In …
10 Sites Skewered by Anonymous, Including FBI, DOJ, U.S. Copyright Office
By the time East Coasters were finishing dinner last night, 10 websites had fallen to what hacktivist group Anonymous calls its “low orbit ion cannon,” or LOIC — a public domain software tool named after a weapon in a popular …
YouTube Apparently Gives Universal Music Group Direct Access to Videos for Easy Removal [Update]
The legal battle between Megaupload and Universal Music Group continues to unfold in the most unexpected ways, with yesterday’s revelation from UMG creating a whole host of new questions about what’s going on over at YouTube. …
Megaupload Sues Universal Music Group over Illegal Takedown
YouTube has removed a video supporting online storage site Megaupload that features artists like Kanye West, Alicia Keys and Macy Gray at the request of Universal Music Group, who claimed that it infringed on their copyright. The …