Yesterday, Megaupload.com was taken down by the feds. The domain name was and $50 million in assets was seized. Four of Megaupload.com’s key employees in New Zealand was arrested including Kim Schmitz (Kim Dotcom). In a 72-page indictment, prosecutors wrote that Megaupload.com earned over $175 million since the website was founded in 2005, most of it based on copyright infringement.

Did MPAA head Chris Dodd just suggested that the Internet in America should be more like China. “When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn’t do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites,” said Dodd.

Zediva is a video service that thought that they were by-passing copyright law, but a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the service. U.S. District Judge John Walter ruled that Zediva violates copyright law. Judge Walter also granted a preliminary injunction made by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for Zediva to be shut down.

4chan users have coordinated an attack against The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) website. The assault on the MPAA website is suspected to be in retaliation to an Indian tech firm that bragged about how they launched similar attacks on several torrent websites. The following message appeared on 4chan before the attack took place:

Earlier this week U.S. Dictrict Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in favor of the movie studios in a legal battle against RealNetworks.  The legal battle was over RealNetworks’ software RealDVD.  RealDVD would have allowed customers to rip and burn copies of DVDs.

This grants an injunction made against RealNetworks that prevents them from selling RealDVD.  The judge made this ruling based on a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

“We are very pleased with the court’s decision. This is a victory for the creators and producers of motion pictures and television shows and for the rule of law in our digital economy. Judge Patel’s ruling affirms what we have known all along: RealNetworks took a license to build a DVD-player and instead made an illegal DVD-copier. Throughout the development of RealDVD, RealNetworks demonstrated that it was willing to break the law at theexpense of those who create entertainment content,” stated Dan Glickman, CEO of the MPAA.

[via NYT]