Feds drop the banhammer.
I am shocked this was the one to go. They had the video with the celebrities I thought that supported them.
Swizz was CEO??
wow
MegaUpload, one of the largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The site’s founder Kim Dotcom and three others were arrested by the police in New Zealand at the request of US authorities. MegaVideo, the streaming site belonging to same company, and a total of 18 domains connected to the Mega company were seized and datacenters in three countries raided.
An indictment unsealed today by the Department of Justice claims that MegaUpload has caused the entertainment industries more than $500 million in lost revenue and generated $175 million “in criminal proceeds.”
In addition to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom who was arrested today in New Zealand, another six alleged members of the Mega “conspiracy” were charged in the indictment:
- Finn Batato, 38, Mega’s chief marketing officer and a citizen and resident of Germany
- Julius Bencko, 35, Mega’s graphic designer from Slovakia
- Sven Echternach, 39,Mega’s German head of business development;
- Mathias Ortmann, 40, the German CTO, co-founder and director of Mega
- Andrus Nomm, 32, programmer and head of the development from Estonia
- Bram van der Kolk, 29, a Dutch citizen who oversaw programming and network issues.
Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by authorities there. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm are still at large.
The authorities seized approximately $50 million in assets, which appears to include Kim Dotcom’s treasured collection of several dozen cars, as detailed below.
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
who knew swizz beatz was CEO? :gotme:
^^^ I JUST FOUND THAT OUT
Is this repost week?
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Wow… Interesting to see how this plays out though.
do you think all of SON reads posts on another forum?
ya, thats why I posted it in the NETWORK off-topic…so EVERYONE can see it and not just SON guys.
I’m American so I don’t think about other countries. 
^ lol yes indeed
Damn I can’t believe they are going after guys over seas! Shits crazy.
I actually grabbed some Android phone dumps from them this morning. It sucks…also $175,000,000 in ad revenue…nice, nice.
still can’t believe one of hip hops longest standing best producers is the CEO of a piracy conspiracy… so nuts.
^^didn’t you know? The U.S Govt likes to do whatever it wants, regardless of bodies of water that separates them.
damn, this is CRAYYYYZY… and the attacks on the sites that follow the raid is even more crazier… its literally starting to look like a cyber war
SOPA and PIPA before they even pass.
fuck the US government.