World’s one of the most popular file sharing website ‘Megaupload’
creator Kim dotcom has been arrested. Kim has the citizenship of Germany and Finland.
The judiciary council of America and federal bureau of investigation (FBI) has
stopped the Megaupload website on Thursday.
Through this site,
the Megaupload limited and Wester limited named two companies does the business
of 175 million dollars by illegal means. Due of piracy, the people having the
copyrights faced the loss of about more than 1 billion dollars. FBI has
arrested seven people for violating the copyrights by encouraging the hackers
for hacking the website of FBI and judiciary council. One of them is the creator
of the Megaupload website Mr. Kim Dotcom while three of them are from Germany
and one of them is from Slovakia, Astoria and Netherlands each. After the
establishment of the crime all of them can be punished for 20 years for
forgery, 5 years for violating copyrights and 20 years for money laundering. About
50 million dollars of property of Kim Dotcom has been sealed in New Zealand. Apart
from this, many servers and domain names of the Megaupload network has been
found. Dotcom had been jailed for 3 years in Munich in 1994. In 2001, he was
among the main suspects of the cross business culprits in Germany. But after
that he ran away from Germany but he was caught in Thailand. He was transferred
from there and charged in 2002.
