Scene from a New Zealand courtroom: Kim DotCom (at right) and others arrested January 19.
Hackers down government and entertainment Web sites after piracy arrest of seven people connected with the hosting site.
MegaUpload assembles worldwide criminal defense
Kim Dotcom will spend the weekend in a New Zealand jail while the U.S. tries to extradite him. His attorney says YouTube was accused of the same copyright violations but nobody raided its offices.
January 20, 2012 5:13 a.m. PT
What MegaUpload founders stand to lose
Aside from losing control of a massive download empire, there is a huge sum of cash, fleet of exotic vehicles, and many domain names that could become government property if the accused MegaUpload founders are guilty.
January 19, 2012 5:28 p.m. PT
Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses?opinion With #OpMegaUpload, Anonymous launches the equivalent of thermonuclear cyber war. What will be the consequences? Worse, did Anonymous just get played?
January 19, 2012 5:40 p.m. PT
DOJ, FBI, entertainment industry sites attacked after piracy arrests
Anti-SOPA activists with Anonymous launch attacks to shut down government and entertainment industry sites after MegaUpload arrests.
January 19, 2012 2:20 p.m. PT
FBI charges MegaUpload operators with piracy crimes
Seven people accused of operating the site and committing acts of online piracy were named in an indictment. Four people--including Kim DotCom, aka Kim Schmitz--have been arrested in New Zealand.
January 19, 2012 11:50 a.m. PT
previous coverage
In SOPA's shadow, MegaUpload strikes back against Universal
The hosting site successfully fights a copyright claim by Universal Music Group over a YouTube video.
December 15, 2011 5:31 p.m. PT
Mystery surrounds Universal's takedown of MegaUpload YouTube video
Universal claims it was authorized to order the takedown of a MegaUpload video because of a certain agreement with YouTube and that it wasn't claiming copyright ownership.
December 17, 2011 10:26 p.m. PT
MegaUpload settles copyright suit with porn studio
One of the world's largest Internet-file storage services has ended a fight instigated by Perfect 10, a litigious porn studio. But MegaUpload's copyright troubles may not be over.
November 3, 7:34 p.m. PT
The mystery man behind MegaUpload piracy fight
A 300-pound hacker, street racer, and convicted computer criminal is allegedly menacing filmmakers. The founder of MegaUpload, a service accused in a lawsuit of encouraging illegal file sharing, is a character right out of a studio script.
August 4, 2011 4:00 a.m. PT
