Giving Megaupload back data would constitute a violation of studio rights, says a legal filing by the MPAA today By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The MPAA is objecting to the transfer of ...

The shutdown of Megaupload last year represented a big shot in the arm for Hollywood studios, a new study finds. The closure of the video-locker service came after U.S. authorities charged founder Kim ...

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 ...

The MPAA says the now-defunct file-sharing site should pay millions because it allegedly infringed on copyrighted movies and TV shows, while encouraging others to do the same. Dara Kerr was a senior ...

Closing the notorious piracy site Megaupload didn’t help theatrical film grosses , according to a new study. Megaupload, which claimed at one time to account for as much as 4% of all Internet traffic, ...

We’ve heard this one before, over and over again: pirates are the biggest spenders. It therefore shouldn’t surprise too many people to learn that shutting down Megaupload earlier this year had a ...

For two weeks, Kim Dotcom and three other former Megaupload staffers accused of criminal copyright infringement were bombarded by accusations from New Zealand prosecutors. To hear prosecutors tell it, ...

The saga of file-sharing website Megaupload, which led to the arrest of outlandish founder Kim Dotcom, continues. The Motion Picture Association of America has filed a letter supporting the ...

The shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload has accused the United States government of trying to change criminal court procedures to make it easier to prosecute the firm for copyright infringement. In ...