The Fall of Megaupload
With the American government taking down Megaupload, what comes next? What happens to the legally uploaded files? What about the consumers? Who does this hurt and what happens next?
- January 19th: The United States Department of Justice seized the domain of Megaupload.com. The owner, Kim DotCom, is arrested.
- Megaupload closed, arrests in New Zealand (1:35)A US online piracy case brought the shutdown of Megaupload.com, one of the world's biggest file sharing sites, along with 4 arrests i...
- Hot on the heels of the controversial SOPA, the press picks up the story and starts to think about the consequences of this act. What exactly can the government do?
Does the Megaupload takedown prove that SOPA is unnecessary?But last week, the US government took down Megaupload, one of the biggest file-sharing sites abroad. Doesn't that suggest new laws ar...- January 27th: Anonymous, incensed about the site's takedown, retaliated. By taking down websites including the United States Department of Justice website.
- January 28th: The Department of Justice decides to delete the files, causing a firestorm of legal users fearing for their data.
Megaupload users could soon lose all their files
People who used Megaupload to store files – legitimate or otherwise – could soon find their data has been deleted altogether, reports the...
Copyrights: Legal hurdles to retrieving files from MegauploadMegaupload users got a temporary reprieve this week when the companies that hosted the site's servers, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent C...
Megaupload users plan to sue FBI over deleted files(CBS) - Megaupload users are organizing a complaint against the US Federal Bureau of Investigations because of a mass wipe of the website...
Users of #Megaupload who legally stored their data on the site are suing the US government for data theft. bit.ly/xWK4wS #ReTweet!- EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) decided to help as well in the recovery of the legal user files.
EFF wants to help Megaupload users get files back from FedsWorried your legal files stored on Megaupload are about to be deleted? The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has offered to...- January 30th-31st: The DoJ gives a two week reprieve to users' data, but a future arrangement for the data has not been made thus far.
Megaupload files might still be saved - CNN.com21 hours ago ... Megaupload users have gotten at least a two-week reprieve during which the file- sharing company says it hopes their fi...
Megaupload lawyer: User data is safe for "at least two weeks" tnw.to/1D0W6 by @jonrussell on @TNWinsider
