fbi cierra megavideo, megaporn, y megaupload

The US Department of State, along with the FBI and other international authorities, has led an operation against the popular file-sharing website Megaupload, which has been closed down, and against several of its responsible parties, who have been detained and accused in Virginia (USA) of conspiracy to commit a crime and intellectual property violation. The founder of the site, Kim 'Dotcom' is the main accused, and could face up to 50 years in prison. The operation has targeted two companies, Megaupload Limited and Vestor Limited, and at this moment, the websites Megaupload -file sharing- and Megavideo -video visualization on the Internet-, both owned by the same companies, are inaccessible, as well as Megapix, Megalive, and Megabox. The US Department of Justice accuses seven of the responsible parties of these companies of organized crime and ensures that they are responsible for massive piracy worldwide of different types of protected works. Additionally, in the public note it is ensured that these pages have generated more than 175 million dollars in illegal activities and have caused more than 5 billion dollars in damages to the owners of the protected works. Up to 50 years in prison The indictment against the accused was filed on January 5th in the USA, and the specific charges are participating in a conspiracy of organized crime, committing massive copyright infringement, money laundering, and two criminal charges of intellectual property violation. So each of the seven accused faces up to 50 years in prison among all the charges. Thus, the US administration's demand identifies the founder of the companies, German Kim 'Dotcom', alias of Kim Schmitz as Kim 'Tim Jim Vestor', 37 years old and resident in Hong Kong and New Zealand, of leading this criminal network. Dotcom would be the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which would be the company used to conceal his activities on all affiliated web pages to the 'Mega' network. The FBI has seized $50 million in assets and 18 Internet domains. Dotcom is a millionaire German hacker aged 38, resident in New Zealand since 2010, fond of sports cars and women, according to a profile published in New Zealand press. Considered one of the top 10 most yummy people in the country, he is married with three children. A day after protests against SOPA, an operation took place a day after a series of web pages protested against the initiative SOPA, which aims to pass a law allowing US authorities to block foreign websites that harm protected works. However, the operation is not linked to this measure. According to published information, the investigation is led by the Eastern District of Virginia prosecutor and the Intellectual Property Section of the US Department of Justice at the request of the FBI and the National Intellectual Property Coordination Center. In December, a series of major artists supported Megaupload for its utility. Megaupload is one of the most important file-sharing websites in the world. It has been operating since 2005 and allows users to upload all types of files that can then be downloaded on any other computer. Similarly, Megavideo allows any user to publish videos that can then be viewed anywhere, just like YouTube. Both websites have frequently been targeted by content companies for facilitating the unauthorized download and viewing of protected works. Both sites, considered by many to be centers of unauthorized music, film, series or book downloads, has been pursued by the adult entertainment industry, English authorities. Frenchwomen, Italians, and even Americans, Google and the RIAA through Mastercard, among others. Until now, the company had resisted, sheltered by the fact that, besides hosting protected content under copyright law, there were many users who used the file-sharing service in a legitimate and private manner. Moreover, it did not hesitate to eliminate all content susceptible of being protected that companies claimed. Last December, a series of major artists, from Will.i.am to Jamie Foxx, supported the web page with a video praising its virtues.