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7 Charged as FBI Closes a Top File-Sharing Site

7 Charged as FBI Closes a Top File-Sharing Site
About $ 50 million in assets were also seized, as well as a number of servers and 18 domain names that formed Megaupload's network of file-sharing sites. Ira P. Rothken, a lawyer for Megaupload, said in a phone interview on Thursday that “Megaupload …
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Sex Tech Weekly: Megaupload, Match Singles Data, Obscenity Copyright, China …
By Violet Blue | February 3, 2012, 5:33pm PST Summary: Match.com's data on US singles, Megaupload reviled by Perfect 10, China's sex toy spam industry and more. This week at the intersections of sex and technology we find singles, Chinese sex toy …
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MediaFire CEO: Unlike Megaupload, our business model isn't built on piracy
As the strange case of file-sharing site Megaupload continues to unfold, many wonder if the federal government will begin to clamp down on similar sites that function like Megaupload, with easy sharing and hosting of copyrighted files.
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Megaupload founder held in copyright infringement

Megaupload founder held in copyright infringement
The German computer programmer and founder of the online file storage service Megaupload lived larger than a James Bond foe. Dotcom, who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz, lived in a $ 24 million mansion outside Auckland, New Zealand, …
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Zuk Says Megaupload Was `Security Risk' for Businesses
30 (Bloomberg) — Nir Zuk, chief technology officer of Palo Alto Networks Inc., talks about US charges against executives at Megaupload.com, one of the Internet's largest file-sharing sites. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's …
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Megaupload founder refused bail in New Zealand
Judge worried Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom could flee NZ * Discovery of illegal firearms further raised concerns * Dotcom remanded in custody until Feb 22 * Dotcom "very disappointed", will appeal – lawyer By Michael Perry AUCKLAND, Jan 25 (Reuters) …
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Megaupload is illegal, but buying drugs and guns online is okay?

Megaupload is illegal, but buying drugs and guns online is okay?
Given the overzealous action that federal authorities took in bringing down the file-sharing site Megaupload, you would think that a black market for both firearms and narcotics would be the number one enemy for the feds. The US government arranged a …
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Feds: Megaupload user data could be gone Thursday
Click here Feds: Megaupload user data could be gone Thursday Published: January 30, 2012 10:22 AM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. US prosecutors blocked access to …
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Megaupload Files May Be Deleted on Thursday
This hacker created Megaupload, which was a highly popular cyberlocker to store files. In fact, the business afforded Dotcom a lavish lifestyle. He had a collection of expensive cars, yachts, helicopters and planes, and his house had an estimated value …
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In the Nation | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2012-01-26

In the Nation | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2012-01-26
Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.), says she looks forward to bringing a strong voice to Washington again. MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann swept aside doubts about her political future Wednesday, declaring less than a month after ending her …
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Requiem for a campaign: Rick Perry's rise and fall
Michele Bachmann's damaging attack over Perry's support for an HPV vaccine for young girls had been substantially blunted by her self-inflicted wound the next day when she overstated the side effects of the medication. But after Perry's indignant …
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