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Intellectual Property

Mar. 14, 2012

Megaupload indictment leaves everyone guessing

What did Megaupload do to attract a response normally reserved for drug cartels and terrorists? By Tony Falzone of Stanford Law School and Jennifer S. Granick of Worldstar Management LLC


By Tony Falzone and Jennifer Stisa Granick


FIRST IN A TWO-PART SERIES


Days after anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice coordinated an unprecedented raid on the Hong Kong-based website Megaupload.com. New Zealand law enforcement agents swooped in by helicopter to arrest founder Kim Dotcom at his home outside of Auckland, and seized millions of dollars worth of art, vehicles and real estate. Six other Megaupload employe...

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