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A U.S. Federal Court Has Found File-Hosting Website Hotfile Liable
Aug 30, 2013A U.S. federal court has found file-hosting website Hotfile liable for copyright infringement, according to movie industry body Motion Picture Association of America. The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida also held ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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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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A 33-Year-Old Man Was Sentenced to Three Years and 10 Months in Prison by a German Court
May 9, 2013A 33-year-old man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison by a German court for running the torrent site torrent.to between December 2005 and April 2008. He was sentenced by the local court of Aachen on April 30 for the ...
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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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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 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
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Indicted Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Launched a New File-Sharing Website
Jan 22, 2013Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website today, promising users amped-up privacy levels in a defiant move against the US prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy. The colourful ...
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The U.S. Government Misrepresented Facts When It Approached a Court for Search Warrants
Jan 7, 2013The U.S. government misrepresented facts when it approached a court for search warrants against Megaupload, according to a filing Wednesday by counsels of the file-sharing site. The basis for the warrants was the charge that Megaupload ...
Tags: U.S.government, Megaupload, infringing files, warrants
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Cloud Computing Services Are Trying to Exploit Perceived Weaknesses in Privacy Laws
Jan 4, 2013Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Deutsche Telekom and other ...
Tags: Foreign cloud, marketing, privacy, Computer Products
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Cambodian Police Have Arrested One of The Founders of File-Sharing Website The Pirate Bay
Dec 28, 2012Cambodian police have arrested one of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay,which claims 30 million users despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down and other countries to block access. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
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O2 Is Latest UK ISP to Block Access to File-Sharing Site The Pirate Bay
Dec 28, 2012O2 is the latest UK internet service provider(ISP)to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in line with a High Court order issued at the beginning of May. The move means customers of Be Broadband,a subsidiary of O2,will also be ...
Tags: O2, latest UK internet service provider, file-sharing site
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Cambodian Will Deport Co-Founder of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg
Dec 27, 2012Cambodian authorities will deport the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. File-sharing website The Pirate Bay claims 30 million users, despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
Tags: Cambodian, Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Computer Products
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Lawyers for Megaupload Filed Another Motion on Wednesday
Dec 25, 2012Lawyers for Megaupload filed another motion on Wednesday asking a federal court to dismiss its criminal case, continuing its argument that the company can't be served a summons since it was headquartered outside the U.S. Megaupload wants ...
Tags: Megaupload, federal court, criminal case, U.S.