Hello Ars readers. As you can see, we're writing a lot of stories about Megaupload. One angle we would like to devote a story to is: What are the legitimate uses for Megaupload? If you were using ...

At its peak, Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload served roughly 50 million people each day and carried about 4% of global internet ...

LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn’t warned. “This is the ...

Two Megaupload coders were sentenced to prison in New Zealand yesterday after pleading guilty to fraud and promising to testify against former Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom, the New Zealand Herald ...

Amid a criminal case that forced the shutdown of Megaupload, the company has dismissed UMG from a lawsuit over a video that showed many stars endorsing the site. But that doesn't mean the case is over ...

People have flocked to other file-swapping sites since MegaUpload was shut down and became entangled in a criminal copyright case. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand ...

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload Kim Dotcom, a German national also known as Kim Schmitz, is seen at court in Auckland in this still image taken from video January 23, 2012. The founder ...

Contrary to recent media reports, the FBI did not arrest MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom after being pressured by managers at the four major record companies, who supposedly feared DotCom would launch ...

A verdict against Megaupload in the U.S. would mean other cloud storage providers can be held criminally liable for illegal content stored by customers on their networks, an attorney representing the ...

Kim Dotcom is back. And while his legacy has lasted much longer than his Megaupload website, which was shut down in 2012 due to allegations that the site facilitated massive amounts of online piracy, ...