Megaupload has been shut down

In what might be the first of several website attacks the popular filesharing site Megaupload" has been shut down for piracy.  While news of this takedown has been all over the web there is very little being said about the guy behind the uploads.

Dotcom, the megamind behind Megaupload, was arrested yesterday in New Zealand, his panic-room door busted down by officials, who found the hacker clinging to a sawed-off shotgun. Dotcom faces up to 55 years in prison if extradited to the U.S. and convicted on charges of racketeering, copyright infringement, and money laundering. The hacker-turned-multimillionaire businessman has been accused of costing the entertainment industry $500 million through pirated content uploaded to his popular file-sharing site, which boasted 180 million registered users and celebrity endorsements from Kanye West to Kim Kardashian.

Check out the site for a good history of what Kim Dotcom has been up to.   Heck you even get a photo of the big guy.

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