U.S. authorities have filed new charges against Megaupload sharing site, which closed in mid-January an international raid
Thus, it appears that U.S. Department of Justice banned from the site, led by Kim dotcom millionaire, property Compare $ 50 million, in addition to the arrest of five of the seven site operators around the world. The new charges also argue that Megaupload "Duplicate" content from other sites, including YouTube, in order to allow download of this content.
In addition, according to officials, the site was only 66.6 million registered users, rather than 189 as dotcom and colleagues argued. Of these, only 5.86 million new new users, and the rest just took them off. One of these users of the site received $ 3,400 in 2008-2009, after he posted 16,960 files that led to 34 million downloads. Among these files were illegal copies of films "Ocean's 13", "Ratatouille" and "awn greatest. "
Megaupload, one large file storage sites in the world, download from the air on January 19, 2012, following an international raid on the application of U.S. Department of Justice.Site founder, Kim Dotcom, and two of his accomplices were arrested in New Zealand, with two other operators were arrested in Europe. Their contention is that the site was a legitimate storage platform, but the U.S. claim that the site tried to make a breach of copyright.