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Files stored on Mega are useless to anyone who doesn’t have the decryption key. NZN Image/Laura McQuillan

Can Kim Dotcom’s Mega beat the law where Megaupload failed?

Karl Schaffarczyk, University of Canberra

Just 12 months after being arrested for copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering for his involvement with now-defunct cyberlocker Megaupload, and despite facing extradition from New Zealand…
What’s mine is yours (until they break down the doors). ryancr

Megaupload martyrdom sparks crisis in the faith of file-sharing

John Lenarcic, RMIT University

Latest reports suggest all of the data on seized file storage website Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday. Clearly it’s not great news for the site’s founder Kim Dotcom…
US authorities have seized the file-sharing website. johntrainor

Megaupload in mega trouble (so back-up your online content)

Rebecca Giblin, Monash University

The big copyright news overnight was not the continuing protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), but the shutdown and seizure of Megaupload.com, a popular “cyberlocker…

Related Topics

  1. Copyright
  2. Cyber culture
  3. Cyber law
  4. File sharing
  5. Internet
  6. Kim Dotcom
  7. SOPA

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