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Megaupload Search Warrant shows no consideration for legitimate user rights

Shane McGlaun, Nov 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

As more details surface about the case against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom, the more it seems that legitimate users of the service have been ignored by the legal system. Recently, an entrepreneur named Kyle Goodwin asked courts to return his files to him. As part of his request to have his data returned, Goodwin's attorney filed a motion to have search warrants issued against Megaupload released. Read The Full Story

Kim Dotcom’s Mega returns with New Zealand domain

Eric Abent, Nov 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Kim Dotcom has experienced a few ups and downs in the past couple of weeks. First he announced that he would be launching the successor to Megaupload, simply called "Mega." Before the new site could launch, however, when Gabon's government decided that it didn't want Kim Dotcom to set up shop and suspended the Me.ga domain. That didn't stop Kim Dotcom from trying again though, this time coming up with a new domain for Mega that's based in New Zealand. Read The Full Story

Kim Dotcom’s Me.ga domain killed before new site could launch

Shane McGlaun, Nov 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Kim Dotcom is still fighting a legal battle in New Zealand against the United States over alleged copyright infringement and piracy. Dotcom's website MegaUpload remains closed and the fate of legitimate customer data stored on the company servers remains unclear. Dotcom had said that he would launch a new cloud-storage service in January using the domain Me.ga. Read The Full Story

Kim Dotcom’s “Mega” site overloaded soon after launch

Craig Lloyd, Nov 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has created another new file-sharing website, only this time he dropped the "upload" from its name. The service is set to officially launch in January, but Dotcom launched the Mega domain name and put up a splash page for the time being. However, the website soon became overloaded and went down shortly after. Read The Full Story

Mega announced by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom

Brittany Hillen, Nov 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Back on October 18, we reported that Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom planned to launch a new file sharing service named Mega. Mega will replace the banned Megaupload file-sharing website, which now displays nothing more than a spiffy FBI notice. The new file-sharing network has been announced, and is set to launch in January. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 18, 2012

Eric Abent, Oct 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Thursday evening, everyone. This afternoon we had a bunch of quarterly reports hit, and some were better than others. Google posted its quarterly report a little prematurely, a blunder that had a hand in driving down the price of the company's stock. Later on in the day, we heard from Microsoft, which managed to do pretty good in its first quarter. Sadly, AMD posted its results for quarter 3 just a little while ago, and things aren't looking too good for the company - in fact, it says that it will have to layoff around 15% of its workforce in an attempt to save some money. Read The Full Story

Inquiry into spying on Kim Dotcom ordered by NZ Prime Minister

Shane McGlaun, Sep 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

We talked a lot about the drama centering on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. The New Zealand Prime Minister has ordered an official inquiry into claims that the New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) unlawfully spied on Dotcom. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has called efforts to intercept communications sent by Dotcom illegal. Read The Full Story

Department of Justice, FBI seize three Android pirate sites

Eric Abent, Aug 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

The federal government has continued its crack down on piracy, with the Department of Justice announcing that three different sites which market pirated Android apps have been shut down. The websites in question - applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com - are now all under the government's control, and all three display the same copyright notice that has graced Megaupload for the better part of the year. The DoJ says that this is the first time any websites relating to pirated mobile apps have been shut down. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: August 9th, 2012

Chris Burns, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This morning it's time for the leaks to come rolling in, starting with the Sony Xperia Tablet - all thin and new looking. Two "pre-human" species have been found in another awesome day in science that'll be bringing new understanding to us on the whole "where did we come from" question. There's still a bunch of Agent Orange over in Vietnam from the conflict they (and we) had about 40 years ago - now we're going to help get rid of it with super-heat. Read The Full Story

Megaupload Dotcom mansion raid video released

Shane McGlaun, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

We've been talking about the legal drama centering on Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom and other executives with the file sharing company for a while. The legal battle has centered on having Dotcom and other managers of the website extradited to the United States to stand trial for alleged mass copyright infringement. As the case has drawn on, courts have ruled the search warrants used in the raid on Dotcom's home were invalid. Read The Full Story

Steve Wozniak speaks: Megaupload frustrations, Microsoft praise and Google Glass lust

Chris Davies, Jul 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has spoken out on his frustrations around the Megaupload case, as well as praising Microsoft's visual design as something Steve Jobs would be proud of. The outspoken exec voiced his dissatisfaction with the Kim Dotcom case while at the Entel Summit in Chile, FayerWayer reports, refusing to comment on whether he believes high-ranking politicians had a hand in the investigation, but expressing dismay at some of the techniques used to bring Dotcom to trial. Read The Full Story

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