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DotCom’s New Zealand Home Taken Away By The Police Authorities

Recently, Kim DotCom has been in the news for trespassing copyrights laws through his website, MegaUpload. Since the website’s launch in 2005, it has along with other associated websites, made over $170 million. The website was mostly used for pirated content, mostly videos and films. Now the website has been shut down by the United States officials because it was designed intentionally to assist people in piracy while deceiving at the same time of being a legitimate business.

Blocking File Sharing Sites: The Pirate Bay Is Next?

When FBI took down MegaUpload a few days ago, it quite a huge uproar. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, retaliated by attacking a number of US government websites. But that has not affected the authorities. One of the main reason being that Hollywood continues heavy funding of anti-piracy bills, even those which infringe upon internet censorship. In the latest round of these efforts, a court in Sweden has indicted the team behind www.thepiratebay.org, one of the largest file-sharing websites online.