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Jan 19, 2012 · Megaupload is based in Hong Kong, but some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Va., which gave federal authorities jurisdiction, the indictment said.
- The Prosecution’S Case
- Kim Dotcom Fights Back
- Bad News For Dotcom
The charges brought against Kim Dotcom are varied, but the main thrust boils down to the allegation that Megaupload was fully aware that the website was used for copyright infringement and chose to do nothing about it.19 In fact, the charges claim that the website actively encouraged such behavior by incentivizing users with popular downloads while...
Since Dotcom resides in New Zealand, but the warrant for his arrest is in the U.S., the legal battle boils down to whether or not he can be extradited to the United States to face his charges. It took three years before this extradition request even made it in front of a judge. Then after two months of legal arguments, a district judge in New Zeala...
That brought both parties to the court of appeal, which made its decision in July 2018. Disagreeing with the high court, the third judge to review Dotcom’s case determined that he could, in fact, be extradited for any of the charges levied against him, including the ones relating to copyright infringement. In what has become a recurring theme in th...
Jan 19, 2012 · The indictment alleges that the criminal enterprise is led by Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, 37, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand. Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and is the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which has been used to hold his ownership interests in the Mega-affiliated sites.
Apr 24, 2014 · Megaupload, the defunct file-storage site, is asking a Hong Kong court to release millions of dollars in assets as part of efforts to allow its former users to reclaim their data.
- Jeremy Kirk
Website. megaupload.com (archived) Footnotes / references. [1] [2] Megaupload Ltd was a Hong Kong –based online company established in 2005 that operated from 2005 to 2012 providing online services related to file storage and viewing.
Jan 20, 2012 · The site had leased more than 1,000 servers in North America alone; 525 were at Carpathia Hosting and were located in Virginia. Between 2007 and 2010, Carpathia received $13 million from Megaupload.
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Jan 27, 2012 · Finally, he thought it likely that Megaupload, which still has 30 employees, would have a plan in place to restore the data it had been storing and set up shop again outside U.S. jurisdiction. [ For more background on the Megaupload takedown, read Anonymous Retaliates For Megaupload Raids: 10 Key Facts.
