On January 20 reported, citing New Zealand , the world's largest Internet service provider Megaupload.com hard founder Kim Dotcom, and three others were arrested today in Auckland; will be held today appear in court at the north shore. Kim Dotcom formerly known as Kim Schmitz, founded in 2005 in Hong Kong, Megaupload.com, soon became the largest sites in Europe and America with the crowd. January 19, 2012 by the United States FBI forced to close, because with a large number of infringing works.
Meagupload page allegedly infringing on the site of pirated movies and other files, resulting in the copyright holder of more than $ 500 million dollar loss of revenue, but also derived more than $ 175 million dollars in proceeds of crime. The indictment is in the number of sites, two combat online infringement of motion of Congress protested and made off site behavior to take effect. These sites include Wikipedia and Craigslist. 4 arrested two people out of New Zealand residents. The four accused of extortion, copyright infringement, money laundering and other charges, is expected to face more than 50 years each in prison. According to Reporters test, at present, the domain is also able to resolve, but the server has been PING unreasonable. It is reported that FBI officials are all servers have been under the shelf and saved as evidence of a crime.
