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The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has conducted a major action to shut down MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site widely used for free downloads of movies & television shows. After receiving indictments from a grand jury in Virginia for racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement & other charges on Jan. 5, federal authorities on Thursday arrested four people and executed more than 20 search warrants in the U.S. and eight foreign countries, seizing 18 domain names an estimated $50 million in assets, including servers run in Virginia and Washington, D.C.In a joint statement, the Justice Department and FBI called the action “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”
The site is advertised as having more than 50 million daily visitors, according to federal authorities. 4 of MegaUpload’s operators have been arrested in New Zealand, while three more remain at large. Not listed on the indictment is rapper Swiss Beatz (Kasseem Dean) who, according to a report in the New York Post, is the CEO of MegaUpload. ...
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