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As intriguing as that story will be to follow, some of the more immediate side effects are being felt among other file-hosting services. Some are responding by turning off their services all together, presumably pending some further legal research. Others are vocally defending their own practices in light of the details contained in the indictment against MegaUpload. Actually, two pieces. The second bit of good news is that Key is announcing an inquiry into the illegal wiretapping, which is sure to shed unwelcome light onto how New Zealand law enforcement and spies got so buddy-buddy with U.

That extradition is now scheduled for March 23 — next year — and meanwhile, Megaupload is rising from the ashes: just three days ago Dotcom announced that Megaupload will be reborn with an entirely new codebase, which is already 90 percent complete:.

The entire case has been a disaster for New Zealand law enforcement, which has been seen both siding with powerful American commercial interests against a local hero and ferociously incompetent, bungling to the point of committing multiple illegal acts. Did you miss a featured session? On Tuesday, Christofer Dutz, creator of Apache PLC4X, said he will stop providing community support for the software if corporate users fail to step up and open their wallets.

Cryptocurrency startup EthereumMax and top celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather Jr are accused in a proposed class-action lawsuit of colluding in a pump-and-dump scheme that scammed victims.

In December , the FTC accused Meta of "illegally maintaining its personal social networking PSN monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. This legal challenge fell flat , however, when judges threw the case out six months later.

Evidence supporting the idea it unlawfully dominated social media was said to be lacking though the regulator was given another chance to file an amended lawsuit. A federal judge has now agreed to hear the case this time.

Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has been unable to comply with the settlement terms of a year-old lawsuit over prison conditions because of a ransomware attack last week that saw prisoners back under manual control. County officials on January 6, , filed a notice [ PDF ] with the New Mexico District Court overseeing the settlement invoking an emergency provision in the settlement terms to temporarily suspend their obligations. Commissioners told the court that all of Bernalillo County, which covers the US state of New Mexico's largest city Albuquerque, had been affected by a January 5, , ransomware attack, including the Metropolitan Detention Center MDC that houses some of the state's incarcerated.

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Dotcom is busy working on Mega, his recently launched encrypted file storage site. He also hopes to roll out MegaBox, an iTunes-like music service on which musicians would receive 90 percent of revenues and could sell their songs directly to fans, within six months. And though he didn't mention it at the conference, he's also working on an email service that — he's quoted by The Guardian UK as saying— is"fully encrypted so that you won't have to worry that a government or Internet service provider will be looking at your email.

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