MegaUpload.com is closed by the FBI, the founders and several other employees are arrested

The news is shocking, but this is not just another yellow headline, but a harsh reality.



The FBI website lucidly reported that two organizations and seven private individuals were charged with repeated copyright infringement, making a profit of $ 175 million and causing damage of half a billion dollars. As it was all thought, it is not described as usual, and it doesn’t matter much, because on the MegaUpload scale several cases of weather do not.

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Mentioned citizens face many years under 3 charges:

1) 20 years for fraud

2) 20 years for money laundering

3) 5 years for each copyright infringement







The main characters in New Zealand were arrested on request from the USA.



If you believe the accusation, then on the site for five years files were laid out that violate copyright, films (often before the official release in theaters), TV shows, music, e-books, and a great many software. More than 150 million users were registered on the site, every day the site was visited by about 50 million people, which is 4% of the global Internet traffic. Owners earned money by selling advertising and premium accounts.



The prosecution claims that the defendants carried out illegal activities based on a specially designed business model that encouraged users to download the most popular content and then advertise it. The prosecution indicates that the site could not be used by users for personal long-term storage, as files that nobody downloaded were deleted after a while. The prosecution reveals the essence of the affiliate program, which encourages users to upload popular content and drive traffic to the site, often using third-party, so-called "reference sites".



On TorrentFreak, Ernesto raises an interesting topic: “What is happening now with Swizz Beatz , which MegaUpload CEO was announced some time ago?” While the question remains unanswered, he is not on the list of those arrested.



Threw this part of the text ZolDoR , says that a little late with the translation, do not disappear as good :)



According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation denies the connection of recent protests against the proposed laws aimed at combating piracy.



Before closing, the site was a statement that the charges were "greatly exaggerated"



“The vast majority of our traffic is legal, and we are not going anywhere,” it also said.



“If the media industry wants to cash in on our fame, we will be happy to start a dialogue. We have good ideas, please contact us. ”



Founder of MegaUpload, Kim Dotcom:





PS Revenge started for MegaUpload from Anonymous, you can search by #OpMegaupload and #OpPayBack:

1) universalmusic.com

2) www.justice.gov

3) riaa.org

4) mpaa.org

5) utahchiefs.org