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How Megauploas was investigated

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Affaire Megaupload : un juge néo-zélandais quitte le dossier après un commentaire polémique. Acte 2, Hadopi : les principaux extraits de l'intervention de Pierre Lescure.

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How Megaupload Was Investigated and Indicted. The popular file upload site Megaupload was taken down today as part of a US DOJ investigation into the site for breaches of US copyright law.

How Megaupload Was Investigated and Indicted

From reading the indictment and digging around online you can start to reverse-engineer how the investigation was carried out. The evidence in the grand jury indictment is of four forms: Internal emails, dating back to 2005 - including correspondance between staff members and support emails. Publicly accessible details such as URLs to pirated content, dates of domain registrations.

Information from the Megaupload PayPal account and correspondance between PayPal and Megaupload Information from the Megaupload Moneybookers account.