The
online file-sharing site Megaupload.com has been shut down, and its founder and
three other executives arrested on charges of copyright violations and piracy,
U.S. authorities announced Thursday. Kim
Schmitz, the founder, and three other men were arrested in New Zealand. In a
press release the FBI stated, "This action is among the largest criminal
copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the
misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate
intellectual property crime,". The justice department said that
megaupload.com and other sites such as megavideo, megabox, and megalive have
generated $175 million illegally costing copyright owners an estimated $50
million. Megaupload servers in Washington D.C., Virginia, Canada, and the
Netherlands were shutdown. There URL and IP address go nowhere. Also, the FBI
press release said, "For more than five years the conspiracy has operated
websites that unlawfully reproduce and distribute infringing copies of
copyrighted works, including movies — often before their theatrical release —
music, television programs, electronic books, and business and entertainment
software on a massive scale,".
When
I read this article I thought if would work really well with the information I
already found on file sharing. This article shows some of the strides the
United States are taking to stop Copyright Infringement. I could find a lot of
articles about what file sharing is and how is takes away from the movie
industry as a whole but this article will be very helpful. I can show in my
paper and example of a company getting shut down for copyright Infringement.
Wagensell,
Paul. "File-Sharing Site Megaupload Shut Down, Executives Arrested." MSNBC.
(2012): n. page. Web. 20 Jul. 2012.
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