They arrest those responsible together with the founder of Megaupload and block the page

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Megaupload.com, which ensures that he has had more than 1.000 million views Since its creation in 2004 and which has more than 180 million registered users worldwide, it was inaccessible yesterday in the United States and in other countries, including Spain, due to the intervention of its servers by the FBI. The operation affected a total of 18 domains, among which are Megavideo, Megaclick, Megaworld, Megalive, Megapix, Megacar, Megafund, Megakey, Megamovie, and others.

The US government claims in the lawsuit that Megaupload and its associated websites form a “Mega Conspiracy, a global criminal organization whose members took part in acts of criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale. ”. In addition, various link websites that Megaupload uses to keep running are cited, including the Spanish ones. taringa.net, peliculasyonkis.com, seriesyonkis.com.

“Megaupload.com has been employed by the defendants and other members and associates of the Mega Conspiracy to intentionally reproduce and distribute many millions of illicit copies of various works, including films, television programs, music recordings, electronic books, images, video games and other computer programs, "adds the list of charges.

“Each download from Megaupload.com provides a financial benefit to the Conspiracy which is always directly linked to the same discharge ”, it is stated in the lawsuit. “The more popular the content, such as copies of well-known works protected by intellectual protection laws, the more users come to the download page of Megaupload.com; the access of those additional users, in return, brings more money to the Mega Conspiracy ”.

We do not know the impact of this decision, but it is not ruled out that other pages fall due to a domino effect. And all this comes just with both face-to-face and virtual demonstrations on the SOPA law (Stop Online Piracy Act) that will have much to talk about in the future.

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Source: The country


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