Report Claims MegaUpload Take-Down Surges Movie Sales

For long, the argument cited against piracy has been that it essentially takes away the ‘rightful’ dollars of the content industry. Carnegie Mellon’s Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics has now shown that the take-down of MegaUpload last year has resulted in a significant surge in movie sales and rentals. We, naturally, have our contentions with those conclusions.

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Dotcom Plans To Launch New MegaUpload On Raid Anniversary

By January 2013, it would be exactly one year since FBI undertook a large-scale raid against Megaupload, bringing down the popular file-sharing website and arresting its team members. Megaupload’s founder, Kim Dotcom, has announced plans of relaunching a similar venture on the first anniversary of the raid.

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90% Code Of New MegaUpload Completed, Says Kim Dotcom

When U.S. authorities took down MegaUpload earlier this year, it was a massive hit for online file-sharers. Millions of users relied on MegaUpload to share their files. However, the site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, has hinted that he is coming back soon with a more secure and legally-protected MegaUpload.

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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Meets Steve Wozniak, Hints At A New Venture

Megaupload has been probably the most popular file-sharing sites online. Until, of course, FBI pulled it down and made millions of users lose access to their data. Since then, Megaupload’s founder and main person, Kim Dotcom, has been facing cases related to online piracy and is under house arrest for now. However, that doesn’t seem to have diminished his spirits.

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MegaUpload’s Kim Dotcom Charges FBI With Illegaly Pirating His Data

Kim Dotcom is the very person who was the life and soul of MegaUpload and the one person that the US authorities are craving to lay their hands no, over charges of copyrights infringements and a whole lot more. The irony of the whole situation is that while Dotcom is considered the ‘King of Pirates’, he has now accused FBI of pirating his data out of New Zealand.

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