Justice VS: only 9 percent used MegaUpload for uploads

MegaUpload had a lot less users than the site claimed, and one of them has a maximum of 8.8 percent for the service actually used to upload a file, claiming American authorities, that the indictment to expand.

The U.s. indictment against MegaUpload has been expanded with eight new criminal offences. In the new indictment, however, also statistics that are based on the FBI investigation of the servers of MegaUpload and that must prove that the largest part of the users the service is only used to download.

“On January 19, 2012, there were approximately to 66.6 million users registered in the database of Mega Conspiracy,” said the prosecutors. The FBI and the American justice system referencing from the publication of the action under the heading of ‘Mega Conspiracy’ to MegaUpload. MegaUpload claimed 180 million users. “Of the registered users have, at most, to 5,86 million ever a single file uploaded to MegaUpload or MegaVideo”, is also in the extensive indictment. This would be at odds with the fact that MegaUpload itself presented as a cyberlocker service, where users files for own use can shed.

Among other things, the accusation added that the service copyright holders misled by claiming that films and tv series were removed, while in reality only a few links to the files removed were, and the files on the servers present remained.

Also would be employees of MegaUpload user generated content from third parties such as Youtube on the site to have the impression that most legal content. “We have a server available to continue downloading of the Youtube? Kim says that this is a priority”, the Dutch administrator Of of K. in 2006, in an e-mail.

Moreover, the indictment mentions of a user with the name ‘VP’, which in 2008 and 2009 16.960 files on MegaUpload, including films such as Ocean’s Thirteen, Ratatouille and Evan Almighty. These files should be together, 34 million clicks have been generated. As part of the Uploader Rewards program would the site ‘VV’ 3400 dollar paid in, although the service also has 85 complaints about repeated auteursrechteninbreuk about the user received. In total, MegaUpload of millions of dollars paid out.

In the document that possession of MegaUpload, where U.s. authorities seized have them put a value of $ 50 million represents. The plaintiffs claim that copyright holders over 500 million dollars have been injured by the alleged infringements. Thursday 19 January was MegaUpload taken offline; there were eventually five employees arrested, including the Dutchman. The latter is now out on bail, released, but ceo and founder Kim Dotcom is still being held.