Megaupload

MegaUpload, one of the world's largest file-sharing websites, was shut down Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice, which accused it of violating piracy and copyright laws. The Justice Department alleged that MegaUpload was a "mega conspiracy" and a...

Department of Justice actions helped shut down MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site widely used for free downloads of movies and television shows....

American Idol ratings tumble, the SOPA and PIPA fight rages on, and "Haywire" opens Friday....

Salon's Glenn Greenwald offers a sobering reflection on last week's successful SOPA/PIPA protests in his column,"Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure": It’s wildly under-appreciated how unrestrained is the government’s power to do what it...

The indictment the Justice Department obtained this month against MegaUpload, a popular online locker and file-sharing service, includes allegations that company executives personally uploaded and downloaded copyrighted content -- a familiar accusation in...

Megaupload users got a temporary reprieve this week when the companies that hosted the site's servers, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, agreed not to delete any Megaupload data for at least two weeks. But actually enabling users to retrieve...

Facebook filed papers for an IPO on Wednesday. Not everyone is celebrating, though. In anticipation of the news, critics began questioning Facebook's direction as a company, raising the following questions. Are IPOs really good for businesses? The IPO has...

Now that Facebook has filed the paperwork for its initial public stock offering, it's worth wondering why the company bothered. Its preliminary goal is to raise $5 billion, but its registration statement showed that it's already sitting on nearly $4......

Federal prosecutors obtained a new indictment against Megaupload and its top executives this week, replacing and expanding on the one a grand jury handed down in January. The latest version alleges 13 separate violations of federal law -- eight more......

May 16 (TheWrap.com) - MPAA and the U.S. government will have to wait a little longer for Kim Dotcom and three other defendants to head to the U.S. to face criminal charges for pirating Hollywood movies. decision denying his bid to force the U.S. to give...

WELLINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won the right to demand the United States hand over all the evidence in its online piracy case against the internet entrepreneur, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The ruling...

WELLINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - The United States' chief prosecutor has denied that its investigation into the Megaupload file-sharing site on charges of online piracy is an example of Washington bowing to Hollywood pressure. During a visit to New Zealand,...