Security News > 2023 > June > Megaupload duo will go to prison at last, but Kim Dotcom fights on…
This time, the news is prison sentences for two of the main four original defendants in the infamous Megaupload saga.
Megaupload's larger-than-life founder, who these days answers to the name Kim Dotcom, certainly likes to show off.
An inveterate sharer might argue, Megaupload and Google are just two sides of the same coin.
Simply put, the FBI considered it to be much, much more of an unlicensed megadownload service than the name Megaupload would suggest.
The victim notes that infringing copies of his software remained active on Megaupload after takedown requests were made, with the result that what he found to be a very time consuming process of putting in takedown notices was a waste of his time.
The victim responsibly notes that he cannot quantify how much Megaupload in particular contributed to the piracy problems he experienced.