Twilight of Copyright

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In January an Alexandria, Va., federal grand jury charged Megaupload and seven top officials with a racketeering conspiracy focused on aiding and abetting criminal copyright infringement. The government alleges that the defendants, led by Kim Dotcom, a.k.a. Kim Schmitz, a.k.a. Kim Tim Jim Vestor, made $175 million from a business built on facilitating the illegal distribution of at least $500 million worth of copyrighted movies, music, television shows, books, images, videogames, and software.*

For full story: ttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/11/megaupload-cyberlocker-copyright/Megaupload and the twilight of copyright

by Roger Parloff, Fourtune Jull, 2012

Denise Powell

Bok Technical High School
Philadelphia, PA