Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy 1005
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from the who-needs-SOPA dept.
zacharye writes "Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down notorious file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged the service's founder with violating piracy laws. The Associated Press broke the story on Thursday, reporting that the indictment accuses Megaupload.com's owner with costing copyright holders including record labels and movie studios more than $500 million in lost revenue."
Wow, what amazing timing! (Score:5, Funny)
SOPA RTM coming soon (Score:3, Funny)
ONLY 500 Million? (Score:5, Funny)
Why not 500 Trillion? They're not even trying hard enough anymore...
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:5, Funny)
Before anyone gets voted up to the stratosphere or down to oblivion here, we should remind ourselves that there is no way to tell how legitimately or illegitimately he made his money until a breakdown of his income is published.
And we'll probably be a lot older and following other stories by the time that comes out...
In today's news, aliens land in Los Angeles ans proclaim L. Ron Hubbard totally slanders them in his Church of Scientology writings and they plan to sue. Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:4, Funny)
Texas law only requires that you shoot him in season and buy a tag.
Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently not 24/7/365 since you are posting on slashdot
Re:Ban the use of faucets! (Score:4, Funny)
How dare people drink their tap water!
You mean like in the toilet?
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:5, Funny)
Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
Rendering him several inches shorter.
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, what was the joke?
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, but it's a leap year. He's allocated the extra 24 hours to posting on /.
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:4, Funny)
Interesting...with a name like 'Kim', I'd assumed it was a chick....
And with a name like 'Dotcom', I expected him to be a website...
Re:Ban the use of faucets! (Score:4, Funny)
My fines Scotch bottles have drinkingrights !
for the Aberlour Abund'ha #30 and the Lagavulin single malt 16y, the drinkingrights are a limit of 2 oz every 1 month,
for the Aberlour Abund'ha #35 and the Aberlour single malt 16y, the limit is 2 oz every 2 week,
for the Aberlour single malt 6y and the Glenmorangie, it is 2 oz every 1 week,
the cheap blend are drinkinglefts.
And in related news (Score:5, Funny)
The United States Department of Justice also filed indictments against Western Digital and Seagate for making hard drives that are capable of holding everything from copyrighted works to child porn. "They should have some mechanism in place to make sure illegal content isn't stored on these devices," an agent representing the DOJ said in a prepared statement today.
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:5, Funny)
*raises hand*
Anyone else hear the voice of Yakko Warner (from the Animaniacs cartoon) as they read that?
Re:Ban the use of faucets! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:right. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new Tom Cruise smashing alien overlords.
Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score:4, Funny)
That's funny, with a name like Dotcom, I expect him to be a douche.