Author: Aarn Sarrin Acosta [1Bach C]

1.204 in the Shanghai Industrial Investment Building in Hong Kong. The company services included: *Megaupload.com: file hosting service. a 2. What Megaupload? is

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Megaupload, the most important file hosting service known.
1. The Megaupload company. ----2. What Megaupload? ----3. The reception of Megaupload. ----4. Criticism and the Megaupload song. ----5. The legal case of Megaupload. ----1. The Megaupload company. The company was registered in the room

*Megapix.com: a image hosting service. It was competing with other image hosting services like Photobucket or TinyPic. *Megavideo.com: a video hosting service. For non-members, it blocks itself after 72 minutes. *Megalive.com: a live video streaming hosting service. It was competing with Ustream.com and Livestream.com *Megabox.com: a music hosting service. It was used to upload playlists. There were also other services like Megamanager, Megakey, Filebox, Megaclick, Megafund and Megapay. Two additional services, Megabackup.com and Megamovie.com were developing before the closure of the company.

Megaupload.com was a file hosting service created in 2.005. The basic service allowed was free and the users could upload files of 2 GB. The free user only could download files of 1 GB as maximum. On the other hand, the loged users could download files of 100 GB. Any file uploaded by an unknown user lasts for 21 days if it isnt downloaded. The files of the loged users last for 90 days, and the files of Premium users last forever. The non-loged users used to wait 60 seconds before they were available to download a file, but this time was reduced to 25. Later, this time limit was eliminated. Premium users didnt have to wait any time for the download, and they can download

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multiple files at the same time. Also, Premium users were able to upload files with passwords and they had an unlimited space to upload files. Megaupload could upload huge files easily, so it was used to spread a lot of contents, like software or music or videos. The statistics Megaupload are following: of the

*User account: for being registered at Megaupload, there were some improvements to download files. *Premium account: the Premium user could download more than one file in a row. It also had a great download speed, but this user had to pay money to be Premium.

Megaupload was blocked by the Internet authorities in Saudi Arabia. Megavideo was also blocked. *The 9th of June, 2.011: the Malaysian government blocked both Megaupload and Megavideo. *July, 2.011: the access to Megaupload and Megavideo was blocked in India. 4. Criticism and the Megaupload song. In January, 2.011, MarkMonitor Inc, claimed that Megaupload and Megavideo were, along with RapidShare, the top three websites classified as digital piracy. It was also told about Megaupload that the website contained spyware The 9th of December, 2.011, Megaupload published a song titled The Mega Song, showing artists like Kanye West or Alicia Keys. Snoop Dogg appeared in earlier versions of the song. The video was uploaded to YouTube. However, the video was eliminated by UMG, and Megaupload

*81 millions of visitors. *More than 1.000.000.000 of pages viewed in its history. *Almost 50.000.000 visitors per day. *Almost 180.000.000 registered members. *Its storage was around 25 PB. *It was the 13th most visited site on the Internet. Megaupload.com had three different types of accounts: *Free account: the user only could download one file in a row, and the download speed was low. This wasnt good for people who used to download big files. 3. The reception of Megaupload. Although Megaupload was created in Hong Kong, the company wasnt operating there. Since 2.009, Hong Kong users were banned from accesing the site. They couldnt enter even in the homepage. The reason of the block was never known. Other problems: *The 23rd of May, 2.010: the access to

requested an apology. Universal said that the takedown was pursuant to the UMG-YouTube agreement, which gives UMG authority to block or remove any video in YouTube using some criteria. 5. The legal case of Megaupload. The 19 of January, 2.012, the US Department of Justice seized and shut down Megaupload.com and started criminal cases against their owners. Some people was arrested in the USA and four of the managers of Megaupload were also arrested in New Zealand. One of them was the founder, Kim Schmitz (a.k.a. Kim Dotcom). If we go to Megaupload.com, we can read this: This domain name was associated with the website Megaupload.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court. A federal grand jury has indicted several individuals and entities allegedly involved in the operation of Megaupload.com and related websites charging them with the
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some websites like the RIAA, MPAA, BMI or FBI. Anonymous described the attack as the single largest Internet attack in its history.

*Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering. *Conspiracy to Commit Copyright Infringement. *Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. *Criminal Copyright Infringement.

The action against Megaupload took place just hours after the SOPA protest. Later, the US Department of Justice and a number of other organizations websites were taken offline by Anonymous. These retaliatory attacks were led by DDoS attacks. The 19th of January, Anonymous accepted the responsibility of the massive attack againts