When the FBI shut down file-sharing service Megaupload, it was only a matter of time before other online "file locker" websites took over the Interwebs. Traffic to RapidShare, Hotfile and 4Shared website has exploded. One of the sites, 4Shared which has ...
Jan 27 2012, 8:21pm CST
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A court order giving the FBI temporary power to operate a group of rogue Domain Name System servers used in a criminal click-jacking operation will expire March 8. If those servers go offline as expected, computers still infected with malware directing D ...
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Published: Feb. 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A New Zealand court has granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom bail, ruling he was not enough of a flight risk to keep him in custody. North Shore District Judge Nevin Dawson rele ...
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(FBI news release) The Internet Crime Complaint Center continues to receive complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams. As previously reported in December 2010, the typical payday loan scam involves a caller who claims the victim i ...
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MegaUpload mastermind Kim Schmitz, commonly known as Kim Dotcom, was released from prison in New Zealand on Wednesday, according to local media reports. The decision to grant the alleged Internet pirate bail, made by district court Judge Nevin Dawson, co ...
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The news out of New Zealand today is that larger-than-life Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is free on bail just over a month after he was arrested in a raid organized by the U.S. Justice Department to shut down the file-locker site, which prosecutors are c ...
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AUCKLAND - Founder of file sharing website Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom alias Kim Schmitz, who has been jailed here since January 20 at the request of the US, has been granted bail by a New Zealand court, which has scheduled the extradition hearing in Augus ...
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Megaupload, which is now shut down, allowed people to upload, store, and share files on the Internet. While seemingly tame, the site’s executives are charged with financially encouraging people to upload pirated content. They are also charged with not is ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (nee Schmitz) has been granted bail by a judge in New Zealand, who ruled that any funds he might use to flee the country have already been seized by the authorities. North Shore district court judge Nevin Dawsom ruled that D ...
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The US State Department claims that his website has cost the movie and music industries at least half a billion dollars in lost revenue, and as such are eager for New Zealand to grant their extradition request. With the US Government looking to make an e ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail on Wednesday, Feb. 22 after he was arrested over a month ago on Jan. 20 during a police raid on his New Zealand mansion. Judge Nevin Dawson made the decision, noting that Dotcom no longer posed a flight ...
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