Hello Ars readers. As you can see, we're writing a lot of stories about Megaupload. One angle we would like to devote a story to is: What are the legitimate uses for Megaupload? If you were using ...

LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn’t warned. “This is the ...

Two Megaupload coders were sentenced to prison in New Zealand yesterday after pleading guilty to fraud and promising to testify against former Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom, the New Zealand Herald ...

Amid a criminal case that forced the shutdown of Megaupload, the company has dismissed UMG from a lawsuit over a video that showed many stars endorsing the site. But that doesn't mean the case is over ...

Contrary to recent media reports, the FBI did not arrest MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom after being pressured by managers at the four major record companies, who supposedly feared DotCom would launch ...

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload Kim Dotcom, a German national also known as Kim Schmitz, is seen at court in Auckland in this still image taken from video January 23, 2012. The founder ...

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 U.S. government says that some of MegaUpload’s lawyers have a conflict that should exclude them from representing the cyberlocker service.Greg Sandoval/CNET ALEXANDRIA, Va.–The struggle for ...

A U.S. judge may hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the U.S. Department of Justice acted improperly in blocking Megaupload customers’ access to their files when seizing the file-sharing ...

Efforts are intensifying to retrieve data belonging to potentially millions of users of Megaupload’s online storage service following the company’s dramatic shuttering by U.S. law enforcement ...