MegaUpload MegaSaga continues with a Virginia grand jury bringing additional criminal charges against the Web site and its operators. As we reported before, the original indictment against the operators included charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal copyright ...

BGR.com , while the Megaupload takedown did have an impact on global web traffic, it did little-to-nothing to stem file-sharing traffic, web traffic that's often looked at as the acts of copyrighted content pirates. DeepField's study is revealing on a number of levels, including explaining the amount of web traffic Megaupload accounted for: As the largest file sharing service on the ...

DotCom, founder of MegaUpload , was released from jail today on bond, after a New Zealand court deemed that he wasn't a flight risk. Though the NZ Crown might appeal the decision to set DotCom free for the time being, it had been deemed that it is unlikely that he would be able to access the funds to flee the country. Kim was quoted as saying, "I just want to go home." "I'm ...

similar to what MegaUpload had, and was also recently raided , in one of the largest anti-piracy busts in history. TorrentFreak reports that authorities have arrested Maik Pätzold, a.k.a "Maik P," owner of the Skyload.net domain. Also arrested was Marcel Edler, who was listed as operating Skyload's hosting provider, Virtuell-host.de, though it is uncommon for a hosting provider ...

he and his company, MegaUpload , face multiple charges including racketeering and criminal copyright infringement. Reuters is reporting that Dotcom's effort to win bail have finally been rewarded as he was allowed to return home today after fighting to be granted bail for nearly a month. As we previously reported , the U.S. attorneys in the case said that Dotcom posed a major flight ...

similarities to the MegaUpload case . Both sites depended on user generated content as their primary business. While illegal content was present on the site, it didn't make up the majority of the content. It was primarily used by legitimate users who are now being punished by a government that doesn't know the difference between an IP address and a DNS. We'll keep you updated on ...

and the shutdown of MegaUpload are designed to curb so-called piracy, those who are intent on sharing copyrighted material have proven themselves extremely capable when it comes to finding a way around measures designed to thwart them. During last month's SOPA blackout, The Pirate Bay insisted that they would survive any legislative attempts to shut them down. Meanwhile, recent data ...

content on Megaupload . All they cared about was taking own a notorious file-infringing service. There is one caveat to the sysadmin todo list, and it concerns moving to a non-US DNS servers and registrars. After SOPA took its initial public relations beatdown, Lamar Smith quickly surfaced to amend the bill to only target foreign sites. So while the government might not be able ...

if taking down MegaUpload didn't hurt piracy, what is blocking The Pirate Bay going to do? The use of proxies and alternative services will keep piracy going until the content industries evolve or ...