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Will Dropbox be next?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/t...charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html?_r=1
The federal authorities on Thursday announced that they had charged seven people connected to the Web site Megaupload, including its founder, with running an international criminal enterprise centered on copyright infringement on the Internet.
According to a grand jury indictment, Megaupload one of the most popular locker services on the Internet, which lets users anonymously transfer large files generated $175 million in income for its operators through subscription fees and advertising, while causing $500 million in damages to copyright holders.
Four of the seven people, including the sites founder Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, have been arrested in New Zealand, the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Thursday; the three others remain at large. The seven who a grand jury indictment calls part of a Mega Conspiracy have been charged with five counts of copyright infringement and conspiracy, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/t...charges-megaupload-site-with-piracy.html?_r=1