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MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN KILLED
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Megaupload is on the brink of being shut down permanently, with extreme consequences, after a number of the service's executives were indicted by the Department of Justice in what is "among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States."

Eight key members associated with Megaupload have been charged with criminal copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and engaging in a racketeering conspiracy. Four arrests took place in Auckland, New Zealand this morning, and included Megaupload's director Kim Schmitz, otherwise known as Kim Dotcom.

The accused can face up to 20 years in prison for racketeering, five years for conspiring  to commit copyright infringment, 20 years for laundering, and five years on each substantive charge of copyright infringement.

Over 20 search warrants have been issued by the Department of Justice as a result of highly coordinated actions by the FBI with help from New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia and the Philippines. The government also seized about $50 million in assets and targeted sites, as well as 18 domain names associated with the service.

According to the indictment, the popular file-sharing system is responsible for $500 million in losses to copyright holders and accrued more than $175 million in illegal profits from advertisements and premium memberships.

Megaupload.com has more than 150 million registered users and 50 million daily visitor
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#2
wtf megaupload and mediafire own, megaupload cant be shut down.  >Sad
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#3
If it is permanently shut down then something else will replace it so nobody worry.
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Anonymous did what they could.

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#5
They shut down because they had a time count for downloads, mediafire doesn't have those, what goes around comes around=)
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Well, they lived in Auckland City so I basically saw them being driven towards court Tongue the main reason is the pirated movies which are uploaded by USERS not the makers of megaupload, i blame it on the faggots who upload the illegal movies -_-
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that is fucking insane i cant belive megaupload is dead :\ thats a huge shocker
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The funniest thing is that Megaupload is closed and thepiratebay is still running lol... Isn't it ironic?
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lol yeah
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#10
can someone just tell me whats the sopa doing, that ppl are against it?

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