Machinery owner Megaupload (9 photos) Bashny.Net

One of the largest fayloobmenikah Megaupload.com closed by federal authorities in the US the next day after a high-profile parliamentary initiatives on the fight against "piracy", reports Associated Press.

Yesterday the department for combating organized crime and financial fraud in New Zealand arrested the founder of MegaUpload Kim Schmitz (aka Kim Dotcom), CMO Finn Batato, co-founder and CTO Mathias Ortmann and others. Their petition for release on bail were rejected by the New Zealand Court as contrary to the US position on this case.
Elliot Kember was near Schmitz apart and made a bunch of pictures during the arrest of the owner of the property and machines.



Here are some details about this case

- It lasted a long time, like even a few years. American cops were forced to go international, to provide proof of their foreign colleagues, and to work in cooperation with them. they agreed that it is a crime and as a result has held a major international operation aimed at neutralizing these kids.



- With the legal side which is full megaupload pirated content was covered by paragraph DMCA called "safe harbor." Its essence is that the holders of sites must not responsible for user content provided that they help to fight piracy facilitating timely removal of pirated content as soon as it becomes aware of it. on this basis, working a bunch of sites, the same YouTube. megaupload formally followed this rule, even provides a tool to remove the supposedly independent owners of such files.



- In practice, not only that the instrument files are not removed - it bore only a link to a file, and the popular pirated content such links could be hundreds and thousands - so the cops also failed to prove that the guys from megaaploada not only knew about the pirated content on the its website, but also share them with each other, they were glad that they have it in every way and prospered from it. raised their mail archives and with their help was able to show that they were given perfectly aware that cashing in on the pirates, in fact - specially built business so



- Guys literally bathed in gold, even a programmer and designer are millions (dollars) salary. All went to the exclusive cars and anything does not deny