Cyberlockers, are also known as cloud storage or file storage services, enable users to keep files, or back them up, on the internet. ...
10:18 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Kim Dotcom, founder of outlawed file-sharing website Megaupload, said his new "cyberlocker" was not revenge on US authorities who planned a raid on his home, closed Megaupload and charged him with online piracy for which he faces jail if found guilty. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Wellington: In a move bound to provoke US prosecutors and entertainment executives, indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is planning to launch a replacement of his shuttered website and a new online music service by year's end. The file-sharing site that Dotcom started in 2005 was one of the most popular online sites before US prosecutors shut it down and filed racketeering charges against Dotcom and six other Megaupload principals in...
01:03 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Washington: The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material. The group, which advocates for Internet privacy and digital rights, sent a letter on behalf of one user asking "that all concerned work together to make sure innocent users are returned their legal property." "We are...
11:17 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Wellington: Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbours in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming to the country with good intentions. "I am a former hacker" who was once convicted of insider trading, he wrote, before going on to say "In all seriousness: My wife, two kids and myself love...
11:30 AM, Jan 26, 2012
San Francisco: The crackdown on file-sharing site Megaupload is expected to do little to reduce overall piracy of music, software and Hollywood movies, while potentially stifling emerging means of distributing content online. In the wake of last week's surprising indictment of the digital storage company and seven executives, other companies have begun changing their policies even as Megaupload officers maintained their innocence in a first court appearance in New Zealand....
12:21 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Portions of the Justice Department website became inoperable just hours after federal officials seized and shut down the file-sharing website Megaupload.com. ...
09:51 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Wellington: With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world's biggest file-sharing sites. Big enough, according to a US indictment, that it earned founder Kim Dotcom $42 million last year alone. The movie industry howled that the site was making money off pirated material. Though the company is based in Hong Kong and Dotcom was living in New Zealand,...
02:30 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Washington: The US government shut down the Megaupload.com content sharing website, charging its founders and several employees with massive copyright infringement, the latest skirmish in a high-profile battle against piracy of movies and music. The Department of Justice announced the indictment and arrests of four company executives on Thursday as debate in Washington reaches a fever pitch over online piracy. Lawmakers are trying to craft legislation that balances cracking down...
07:09 AM, Jan 20, 2012
