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Megaupload Was About To Go Public Before Government Takedown
Megaupload was planning to go public on the U.S. stock market with a multi-billion dollar IPO before the U.S. government shut them down. Megaupload was having discussions with top auditors and some of the largest investment banks. The talks ended in January after Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and six other executives at the company were arrested on charges of racketeering, copyright infringement, and money laundering.
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U.S. Government Does Not Want Megaupload To Hire Andrew Schapiro
Megaupload was planning to retain the services of Andrew Schapiro, the legendary lawyer that led YouTube to a summary judgment in their copyright trial against Viacom according to TorrentFreak.com. The U.S. government has filed documents that object to Schapiro’s law firm working with Megaupload. They cited conflicts of interest that involved Google, Disney, Fox, and YouTube.
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Feds Say That Data On Megaupload Servers Are Not Needed, But Kim Dotcom Disagrees
Federal prosecutors have reported to a judge that there is no need to keep millions of files hosted on Megaupload. Megaupload’s founders are being charged with running an online piracy website. There is a hearing scheduled next week at the U.S. District Court in Alexandria on what to do with the 1,100 servers that stores Megaupload’s files.
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MegaUpload Founder Kim Dotcom Is Recording Music Now
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom’s website may no longer be online, but he is now in the studio. That’s right, Dotcom is recording a music album as part of a “musical project” that may produce him some money. Dotcom wrote the lyrics for some of the songs and he has a special guest singer on the album. He is recording with some well known “international artists” too. Dotcom is allowed to use the Internet and a near-by swimming pool for one and a half hours. Dotcom is also able to have meetings with three MegaUpload executives once a week for a maximum of 6 hours. [Gizmodo]
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MegaUpload Users Are Demanding The Return Of Seized Content
MegaUpload has gone offline because of copyright infringement. The founders and executives at the company were raided and a lot of their possessions were taken into custody. However people that used MegaUpload for legal reasons want their data back. Specifically an Ohio man is asking a federal judge to preserve the data of 66.6 million users of MegaUpload.
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Kim Dotcom Leaks E-Mails About Interested Partnership From Entertainment Industry
Megaupload CEO Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz has decided to leak some details about some interactions he had with the entertainment industry before he was arrested. Dotcom shared five e-mails from companies such as Disney, Fox, and Warner brothers with TorrentFreak.com. The e-mail revealed that a few weeks before a federal investigation against Megaupload was launched, entertainment industry officials were interested in partnering with them.
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Categories 50 Cent, Kim Dotcom, Kim Schmitz, Megaupload
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MPAA Pushing For Megaupload To Preserve Data On Users
The MPAA is asking a federal judge for Megaupload.com to preserve the data on their 66.6 million users. Megaupload was shut-down in January after a massive cross-country take-down. Over $50 million in assets were seized along with the domain name during the seize.
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Categories Howard Gantman, Megaupload, MPAA
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MegaUpload Founder Kim DotCom Released On Bail
Kim “DotCom” Schmitz, the founder of cyberlocker website MegaUpload.com, has been released on bail. DotCom was indicted in the U.S. for criminal copyright violations and racketeering. He was arrested at his mansion last month near Auckland, New Zealand following a major police raid. Cash, cars, and other possessions that belonged to DotCom was seized.
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Feds Say That Megaupload User Data Could Be Deleted By Thursday
Megaupload was taken down a couple of weeks ago as part of a global government move. Authorities in the U.S., Hong Kong, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Phillipines, the U.K., and Germany worked in conjunction to take the website down. Now federal prosecutors are saying that data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as this Thursday. Millions of users stored their personal data including family photos and documents on Megaupload, but they have not been able to see their data since the government raid.
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Notice How The Federal Government Did Not Need SOPA or PIPA To Shut Down Megaupload?
Earlier this week, file-sharing service Megaupload.com was shut down and the executives at the company was arrested. The domain name was seized and the cars that the executives bought using revenues from MegaUpload was repossessed. All of this was done without the need for SOPA and PIPA. However TechDirt’s Mike Masnick points out that there are concerns about what the Department of Justice considers as evidence for criminal behavior.
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