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Last year the MPAA started a lawsuit against Hotfile, one of the Internet’s most popular cyberlocker services. The site’s popularity is “a direct result of the massive digital theft that Hotfile promotes,” the movie industry group said. In an …
For a man who’s the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed. The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and instead of letting fear or anger get to him, he is excited. De …
In February 2011, the MPAA announced a lawsuit against Hotfile, one of the Internet’s most popular cyberlocker services. The site’s popularity is “a direct result of the massive digital theft that Hotfile promotes,” the movie industry group said. …
After years of painful negotiations, last June it was revealed that the RIAA, MPAA and some of the United States’ largest Internet service providers had finally come to an agreement on action against unauthorized online sharing of copyright works. The d …
In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers. The raid eventually l …
As one of the ten largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, Hotfile has become a prime target for Hollywood. February last year the inevitable happened when the MPAA filed a lawsuit against the file-hosting service. Since then there have been dozens o …
September last year the Florida-based file-hosting service Hotfile sued Warner Bros. for fraud and abuse. The file-hoster alleged that after giving Warner access to its systems, the studio wrongfully took down files including games demos and Open Source …
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