Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload and otherwise known by his alias Kim Dotcom, was arrested by the Department of Justice Thursday for content piracy and losses to copyright owners that amount to $500 million. Schmitz was found by police in his New Zealand mansion's safe room, with what looked like a sawed-off shotgun Detective Inspector Grant Wormald said.
Megaupload.com was shut down on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted seven owners of the file-sharing site for content piracy and losses of half a billion dollars to those with copyrights. Contrary to rumors, music producer Swizz Beatz is not the CEO of Megaupload and does not own a stake in the company, according to court documents filed by the Department of Justice.
Vodafone, challenging the tax bill over its $11 billion deal to buy Hutchison Whampoa Ltd's Indian mobile business in 2007, had appealed to the Supreme Court after losing the case in the Bombay High Court in 2010.
The U.S. government shut down the Megaupload.com content sharing Web site, charging its founders and several employees with massive copyright infringement, the latest skirmish in a high-profile battle against piracy of movies and music.
The website has been charged with breach of copyright laws.
According to federal authorities and a revised indictment, a New York City man is accused of planning one of the most devious terror plots since Sept. 11.
Fifty thousand people marched in Istanbul on Thursday in commemoration of Hrant Dink, the Armenian journalist who was assassinated exactly five years earlier. Holding photos of Dink and signs reading We are all Hrant, we are all Armenian, they walked to the site in the Turkish capital where the reporter was killed in 2007.
Travis Barker's nude photos hit the Internet Thursday and became quite the sensation, raking in over 400,000 views before the hosting Web site removed them.
Ratings agency Standard & Poors hit back at Italian prosecutors on Thursday after sources said its offices in Milan were visited by tax police pursuing a probe into the impact of S&P's reports on Italian share prices.
Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain will join forces and hold a rally together in South Carolina on Friday. The event is entitled THE ROCK ME LIKE A HERMAN CAIN: SOUTH CAIN-OLINA PRIMARY RALLY. Colbert, a comedic satirist, announced plans to run for the White House last Thursday on this Comedy Central show.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned a contempt hearing for Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in a case that could push him from office and is adding to growing pressure on the unpopular civilian government.
Conrad Murray -- the former personal physician of Michael Jackson who is currently serving out a four-year jail sentence for causing the singer's death -- can at least scratch one worry off his list.
A copy of an al-Qaida-linked magazine was delivered to the Guantanamo detention camp for suspected terrorists, a military prosecutor said Wednesday during a courtroom discussion of mail security.
Hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen is once again in the spotlight over allegations of improper trading at his $14 billion SAC Capital Advisors.
A man who claims he owns half the social network Facebook was fined $5,000 by a federal judge for not providing information related to a case he filed against founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Two policy wonks standing outside the Senate Office building, just to be safe, after a small earthquake hits Washington, D.C. strike up a conversation about what might have caused it.
The second grade teacher has been arrested on a battery of child pornography and indecent assault charges after federal agents found hundreds of pornographic images and videos, including one of a friend's daughter, and dozens of girls' underwear. The Newton school district is reeling from the recent revelations, but says there is no proof that Ettlinger abused any of his students.
Divers searching the capsized Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia suspended work on Wednesday after the vast wreck shifted slightly, but officials said they are hoping to resume as soon as possible.
Looks like E&J Gallo wines and Constellation Brands Inc, which produces Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, will be buying more than a round this spring for lot of wine drinkers.
The investigation and rescue operations are in full swing after an Italian cruise liner capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, leaving 11 passengers dead and hundreds injured.
Cruise Ship Sinking: Captain, 'The Most Hated Man in Italy,' Faces the Ire [Transcript, PHOTOS]
The captain of the doomed Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, was put under house arrest for manslaughter as the death toll hit 11 with some 20 people still missing.
