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Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy
zacharye writes "Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down notorious file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged the service's founder with violating piracy laws. The Associated Press broke the story on Thursday, reporting that the indictment accuses Megaupload.com's owner with costing copyright holders including record labels and movie studios more than $500 million in lost revenue."
The very day after uncounted internet sites shut down to protest SOPA/PIPA (which had a profound effect), and some website gets shut down for piracy on the order of a half billion dollars? Darn, if I would've known, I would've had my popcorn and soda ready. Such theatre!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Well, this SOPA Release Candidate seems pretty polished...I guess I'll downlo- oh wait.
Why not 500 Trillion? They're not even trying hard enough anymore...
Before anyone gets voted up to the stratosphere or down to oblivion here, we should remind ourselves that there is no way to tell how legitimately or illegitimately he made his money until a breakdown of his income is published.
And we'll probably be a lot older and following other stories by the time that comes out...
In today's news, aliens land in Los Angeles ans proclaim L. Ron Hubbard totally slanders them in his Church of Scientology writings and they plan to sue. Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Texas law only requires that you shoot him in season and buy a tag.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Apparently not 24/7/365 since you are posting on slashdot
How dare people drink their tap water!
You mean like in the toilet?
Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
Rendering him several inches shorter.
Nowhere! The survivors are still alive!
Wait, what was the joke?
Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
Iran is. Remaining under debate is how many Yemens there are.
Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
Ah, but it's a leap year. He's allocated the extra 24 hours to posting on /.
Interesting...with a name like 'Kim', I'd assumed it was a chick....
And with a name like 'Dotcom', I expected him to be a website...
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
My fines Scotch bottles have drinkingrights !
for the Aberlour Abund'ha #30 and the Lagavulin single malt 16y, the drinkingrights are a limit of 2 oz every 1 month,
for the Aberlour Abund'ha #35 and the Aberlour single malt 16y, the limit is 2 oz every 2 week,
for the Aberlour single malt 6y and the Glenmorangie, it is 2 oz every 1 week,
the cheap blend are drinkinglefts.
Jehovah be praised, Oracle was not selected
The United States Department of Justice also filed indictments against Western Digital and Seagate for making hard drives that are capable of holding everything from copyrighted works to child porn. "They should have some mechanism in place to make sure illegal content isn't stored on these devices," an agent representing the DOJ said in a prepared statement today.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
*raises hand*
Anyone else hear the voice of Yakko Warner (from the Animaniacs cartoon) as they read that?
Im British. Over here, it's a water butt.
So that's about 5 Metallica songs?
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
I, for one, welcome our new Tom Cruise smashing alien overlords.
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That's funny, with a name like Dotcom, I expect him to be a douche.
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