A new academic paper claims to prove a strong link between the shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload and a subsequent increase in movie sales — but it uses studio-provided data and comes from an initiative partly funded by the MPAA.
When we last checked in on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, he was being arrested at his palatial New Zealand estate for, among other things, copyright infringement. Now he’s back with a new song called “Mr. President,” speaking out against internet censorship. Eighteen seconds into the song, he compares himself to Martin Luther King, Jr. (via gizmodo.com)
Last night hacktivist group Anonymous carried out a massive DDOS attack on multiple government websites, along with the RIAA and MPAA’s websites. We were lucky enough to be sitting in on the 4chan thread as it was happening (NSFW language, obviously).
