Attorney General To Delete MegaUpload User’s Data by Thursday

Monday, 30th January 2012
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Tags: access, assets, attorney, attorney general, data, delete, destroy, files, Ira Rothken, megaupload, remove

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When we last checked in on the MegaUpload case, innocent users were considering a lawsuit against the FBI to try and get their files back after the popular file sharing site was shutdown earlier this month. It looks like they won’t be successful as new reports claim the “US Attorney” will allow user data to be destroyed by Thursday of this week.

The report comes from TorrentFreak who said MegaUpload’s attorney Ira Rothken had been informed by Keep Reading

MegaUpload Users Want Their Files Back, Plan To Sue FBI

Thursday, 26th January 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Keeping it Real
Tags: FBI, files, hacking, lawsuit, megaupload, pirate, Pirate Parties, Pirates of Catalonia, racketeering, recover, Spain

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It appears MegaUpload’s users aren’t ready to just back down to the feds with new reports claiming international pirate organizations are planning on suing the FBI on behalf of users over files that have been lost due to the shutdown.

If you’ve been following along with the MegaUpload case, you’d know that many of the company’s execs are now awaiting trial on charges of piracy, racketeering, and money laundering following the feds shutting down the massively popular file-sharing site Keep Reading

Batten down the Hatches, mateys! ISPs Targeting Pirates.

Thursday, 7th July 2011
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Tags: alerts, copyright, downloading, files, internet, news, torrenting

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Yarrr! Ready the guns, hoist the anchor, and get that damn fool Jack Sparrow back in the brig! We best be prepared for the coming storm–

I’m sorry. I don’t know what came over me. That won’t happen again.

Sorry about...that.

Anyway, here’s the news. A group of Internet Service Providors today announced they were moving in cooperation with the RIAA and other organizations to shut down pirates by targeting them with what are called “Copyright alerts.” Copyright alerts might manifest as a Keep Reading