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LeaseWeb Has Wiped 630 Servers That Contained Megaupload Data
Jun 19, 2013LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned. "This is the largest data massacre in the history of ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, 630 Megaupload Servers
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New Legislation Aims to Regulate The Use of 3D Printers to Make Firearms
Jun 14, 2013New legislation in New York City aims to regulate the use of 3D printers to make firearms, as the U.S. tries to cope with the possible proliferation online of drawings for making such arms. An organization, Defense Distributed, fired in ...
Tags: 3D Printed Arms, New York
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Police Showed That Was Seized Kim Dotcom and Three Associates Will Be Returned to Them
May 31, 2013Material irrelevant to police investigation that was seized from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three associates in January 2012 will have to be returned to them, a court in New Zealand has ruled. The police are also required to ...
Tags: Kim Dotcom, Seized Material, New Zealand
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A Proposal in Taiwan to Enforce Copyright Laws Is Facing Concerns
May 28, 2013A proposal in Taiwan to enforce copyright laws by blocking access to top piracy sites is facing concerns that the measures could impinge on Internet freedoms on the island. The intellectual property office of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic ...
Tags: Anti-Piracy Proposal, Taiwan, SOPA
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New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday Granted Megaupload Leave to Appeal a Ruling
May 20, 2013New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday granted Megaupload leave to appeal a ruling that denied it access to evidence the U.S. government holds. The permission gives Megaupload another chance to make its case to see a wide range of ...
Tags: Megaupload, Computer Products
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is Planning to Run for The European Parliament in 2014
May 17, 2013Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014. The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to run as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party, he said in a blog post on Tuesday announcing his candidacy to ...
Tags: EU Parliament, Pirate Bay
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Shutdown of Megaupload Caused an Increase in Digital Sales and Rentals of Movies
Mar 12, 2013The shutdown of Megaupload caused an increase in digital sales and rentals of movies, according to a study by two researchers, which is likely to give a boost to the movie industry, which has typically blamed online cyberlockers and ...
Tags: Megaupload, digital sales, movies rentals
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Kim Dotcom Is Forging Ahead with Plans to Launch His New Mega File Storage Website
Mar 6, 2013Colourful internet identity Kim Dotcom is forging ahead with plans to launch his new Mega file storage website on the Australian or New Zealand stock markets. The German-born internet entrepreneur, who faces possible extradition to the US ...
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Megaupload Lost a Bid on Friday to See a Trove of Evidence Held by U.S.
Mar 5, 2013Megaupload lost a bid on Friday to see a trove of evidence held by U.S. prosecutors prior to extradition proceedings expected to begin later this year in New Zealand. The country's Court of Appeal rejected two lower court rulings from ...
Tags: Megaupload, extradition proceedings, file-sharing service
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A French Website Collecting Links to Content Stored on The Mega File-Sharing Service
Feb 5, 2013A French website collecting links to content stored on the Mega file-sharing service is experiencing trouble in what may be an effort by Kim Dotcom's latest enterprise to avoid concerns over illegal file sharing. The website, ...
Tags: website, Mega, file-sharing service
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The File-Sharing Service Mega Has Fielded 150 Copyright Warnings
Feb 1, 2013The file-sharing service Mega has fielded 150 copyright warnings since its recent launch as founder Kim Dotcom grows a risky new business while under indictment by U.S. prosecutors for running Megaupload. And a French website appears to ...
Tags: file-sharing service, Mega, Kim Dotcom
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Kim Dotcom Will Launch a New File-Sharing Site Offering 50GB of Free Space to Members
Jan 23, 2013A year to the day after his Megaupload sites were shuttered by the U.S. Department of Justice for copyright infringement, Kim Dotcom will launch a new file-sharing site offering 50GB of free space to members. Dotcom posted the ...
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Dotcom Threw a Large Launch Party for Mega on Sunday
Jan 23, 2013While the world’s online sharing community is excited about Kim Dotcom’s bold new venture, the file-storage and sharing service Mega, it is already drawing criticism from security researchers, who advise not to trust it. The ...
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Kim Dotcom Hit Headlines When His Auckland Mansion Was Raided by Police and His Business
Jan 22, 2013Kim Dotcom hit headlines last year when his Auckland mansion was raided by police and his business, the much-loved Megaupload, was shut down by US authorities. Twelve months later, Dotcom and his co-accused from the Megaupload site took ...
Tags: Kim Dotcom, Auckland mansion, Megaupload
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Kim Dotcom Has Launched a New Service Called Mega
Jan 22, 2013Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
Tags: Kim Dotcom, file-sharing, Megaupload