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A day after sites like Wikipedia and Reddit protested SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), federal prosecutors have shut down file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged its founder and others with piracy, the Associated Press reports.
The indictment puts the amount of lost revenue from Megaupload at $500 million, and says the site was once the 13th most popular website in the world.
The company lists rapper and producer Swizz Beatz — the husband of Alicia Keys, who endorsed Megaupload — as their CEO.
But the six defendants include Kim Dotcom, the site’s founder, former CEO and chief innovation officer, and five others. Four, including Dotcom, have been arrested.
The indictment says Dotcom made $42 million from the Megaupload site in 2010.
Megaupload was also recently the subject of a controversy involving a song promoting the site that featured endorsements from a number of stars, including Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Universal Music Group had the video blocked, accusing the site of using one of their artists without authorization.
The song claims that the site has 1 billion users total and 50 million per day.
The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation being debated in Congress has the potential to destroy the internet as we have come to know it.
If passed, SOPA would require internet providers to block access to sites in other countries hosting stolen intellectual property (IP) from the U.S. It also puts any site that contains even an accidental link to a protected IP at risk for legal action.
Stolen IP is a very broad, and vague term. It covers pirated software and movies, but it could also include artwork that’s been uploaded, or counterfeit handbags being sold on the web.
Most of our favorite sites rely on user generated content and links to sites that might have protected IP on them. This means that some of your favorite websites may cease to exist.
Which sites?
View of the Costa Concordia taken on January 14, 2012, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio. Five passengers drowned and about 15 still remain missing after the Italian ship with some 4,200 people on board ran aground. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it apparently hit a reef near the island of Giglio on Friday, only a few hours into its voyage, as passengers were sitting down for dinner. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
Source: theatlantic
