Possible further delays are likely as the New Zealand court has ruled that the FBI must present their evidence of piracy to them before the extradition hearing takes place in March next year.
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The founder of MegaUpload, who's been accused of online piracy, is planning to launch his disruptive music service Megabox before the end of this year. And maybe, file sharing site MegaUpload returns
A video showing part of the law enforcement raid in January on the New Zealand-based home of MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has surfaced, showing more of what happened that day.
Judge David Harvey, one of the judges presiding over the MegaUpload online piracy case, has quit after remarks suggesting he felt the US was the "enemy" were made public.
The extradition hearing for MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has been pushed back from August to March 2013 in a decision earlier today by a New Zealand judge.
The Motion Picture Association of America has denied the claims of MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom that US Vice President Joe Biden ordered the raid on the file sharing website.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom claims to have information that shows that US Vice President Joe Biden is the man who ordered the raid on Megaupload, possibly with influence from the MPAA.
A New Zealand judge has ruled that the search warrants used by the FBI in the raid on MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom's mansion were in fact illegal in the biggest defeat yet against the FBI's case.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak now officially says he supports Kim Dotcom and the now shut down file sharing website MegaUpload, a few days after Wozniak visited Dotcom in New Zealand.
MegaUpload's founder Kim Dotcom has recently reactivated his Twitter account and is using it, at least in one message, as a teaser for Megabox, an upcoming music-themed online business.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom recently got a very special visitor at his New Zealand home: everyone's favorite hacker, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. They even took an Instagram snapshot.
A New Zealand judge has ordered the FBI to start copying a whopping 150 terabytes of data from the computers of MegaUpload's founder Kim Dotcom in preparation for a possible transfer of those files.
A man who has been requesting for months to get access to data he created and owns from the now shut down MegaUpload site is being blocked by the Department of Justice.
After originally opposing the return of any files to users of Megaupload, the servers of which are currently locked down, the MPAA has apparently reversed its stance - but with a caveat.
A judge in New Zealand has given the government of that country and the US three weeks to produce the evidence that they used to charge the organizers of MegaUpload with online piracy.
A man who wants to get to his legally owned video files that were stored on MegaUpload's now shut down servers is trying once again to ask the courts to intervene and get his files back.
In a strange move, the FBI has taken Kim Dotcom's data outside of New Zealand without the knowledge of the court and sent it back to the US, despite an order stating it was to remain in the country.
The judge in charge of the MegaUpload online piracy case has told the FBI that it may never come to trial due to the US never having filed criminal papers against the file sharing website.
It has been revealed that shortly before being shut down, Megaupload was investigating options for raising money for the organisation through a public stock offering.
A judge ruled today that the all the parties involved in the MegaUpload case must work together to come up with an agreement to preserve the data on the file sharing site's servers.
Christopher Dodd, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said in a new interview he is "confident" there are conversations between the tech and entertainment industry about SOPA.
The Motion Picture Association of America told a federal court that it opposes allowing MegaUpload to buy back its servers, and that it also opposes allowing former users to access their files.
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has been given a way to access the Internet once again by a judge, along with access to a pool and the rights to drive to a recording studio to finish an album.
A man has filed a request to the judge that is handling the MegaUpload case in order to get back access to the files he stored on the now shut down file sharing website.
In the wake of MegaUpload's shut down earlier this year, a Hollywood film studio exec has named five other file sharing websites that could also receive the same treatment.
The now shut down file sharing web site MegaUpload is the subject of a new lawsuit from entertainment company ValCom which owns the rights to, among other things, the New Zoo Revue children's TV show.
A number of former MegaUpload users report that they have encountered a new online scam designed to scare them into paying money via a fake legal letter and threats of large fines
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom, currently facing charges of online piracy, has been granted a monthly allowance of $60,000 a month plus the use of a car by a judge.
A judge has declared that the order to raid the assets of Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing web site MegaUpload, was handled incorrectly and has now been declared "null and void."
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom claims in a new interview that the now shut down file sharing web site had accounts that were created by US government officials, including at the Justice Department.
Papers were filed in New Zealand by United States federal prosecutors, seeking the extradition of Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, and three of his associates.
In his first major interview since his arrest, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom defends the now shut down file sharing web site, saying, "I'm no copyright infringer".
Popular file sharing web site RapidShare has decided to cut the download speeds on the free version of its service in an attempt to drive away the actions of software pirates.
After spending a month in jail, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now shut down file sharing web site Megaupload, was surprisingly granted bail today in a New Zealand courtroom.
The well known torrent-based file sharing web site BTJunkie has decided to shut down its operations voluntarily after seven years, claiming the recent legal actions against such sites were the reason.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is teaming up with one of Megaupload's two server hosts, Carpathia, to assist Megaupload users in the possible retrieval of their data stored on the site.
In the massive indictment against the Megaupload file sharing web site, the FBI claimed that the site's team members wanted to copy the contents of YouTube back in 2006.
The FBI obtained Skype IM chats between employees of Megaupload before the file sharing web site was shut down earlier this month, with some chats indicating issues with its founder Kim Dotcom.
Megaupload's attorney claims that data from the now shut down file sharing web site will remain intact at the site's hosted servers for at least two more weeks thanks to a deal with the server hosts.
Data from the servers that hosted the Megaupload file sharing service could be deleted starting as early as Thursday, according to a letter from federal officials to those server hosting companies.