Giving Megaupload back data would constitute a violation of studio rights, says a legal filing by the MPAA today By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The MPAA is objecting to the transfer of ...

News has been hitting the wire at an impressive rate since the shutdown of MegaUpload and arrest of Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz, the site’s founder. From the retaliatory hacking attacks that crippled ...

If you had personal files stored long-term on the now-dead Megaupload, consider them gone for good. A Department of Justice spokesperson, who asked not to be named “for security reasons,” tells us in ...

For more than a year, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America have argued that existing laws were insufficient to deal with the problem of “rogue ...

In an interview, Dotcom says his legal team is working to return legitimate data to its users. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom reports that his legal team is ...

Megaupload's contention that the authorities entrapped the now-shuttered file-sharing service is "baseless," the government said in a new court filing. The brouhaha concerns part of the government's ...

U.S. federal prosecutors are fine with Megaupload users recovering their data — as long as they pay for it. The government’s position was explained in a court filing on Friday concerning one of the ...

Soon after the domain was registered in Hong Kong, the now-defunct Megaupload.com grew into one of the world’s most popular file-sharing sites. At its peak, the site engaged nearly 50 million users a ...

I have to say that I think this is rather clever really. Not helpful to people who were trying to get copyright material taken down off the Megaupload service, of course, and it forms part of the ...

Federal authorities say they may shut down cloud-storage services without having to assist innocent customers in retrieving data lost in the process. The government is making that argument in the case ...

The internet is up in arms over the federal crackdown of file-sharing website Megaupload, from irate blog posts to coordinated digital attacks on secure government servers. The move appeared to be a ...

Megaupload users have gotten at least a two-week reprieve during which the file-sharing company says it hopes their files and other stored data can be retrieved, not deleted. The news comes days after ...