[x-pubpol] Megaupload indictment returned with charges added for Kim Dotcom and others

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/megaupload-indictment-returned-with-charges-added-for-kim-dotcom-and-others/2012/02/17/gIQAAXBNKR_story.html


The Justice Department on Friday said that more counts of copyright
infringement and fraud have been added to its indictment of Megaupload
founder Kim Dotcom and several of his associates.

The superseding indictment
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/documents/megaupload-indictment.pdf>
also cast light on how prosecutors say Megaupload.com was being used.
The file-sharing site claimed to have had more than 180 million
registered users, but in fact, the document says that Megaupload’s
internal databases show that the site had only 66.6 million as of Jan.
19, 2012. Furthermore, the records reveal that only 5.86 million of
these users ever uploaded a file to either Megaupload.com or
Megavideo.com, prosecutors said.

The indictment offers some details on one particularly egregious user.
The person, known as “VV” in the company’s records, uploaded
approximately 16,950 files to Megaupload’s sites. These items were
viewed more than 34 million times and included what prosecutors said
were infringed copies of movies such as “Ocean’s Thirteen,” Pixar’s
“Ratatouille, and “Evan Almighty,” which stars Steve Carell.


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