The MISTAKES of Kim Schmitz and Megaupload

U.S. authorities have closed the file hosting service MegaUpload and arrested four employees of the company, including Megaupload-chief Kim Schmitz aka Kim dotcom. The Megaupload operators should have earned about 175 million U.S. dollars with the service. The U.S. Justice Department accused the operators of the file hoster Megaupload widespread copyright infringement and is associated with the site prior to seven individuals and two companies.

$ 175 million income! Very lucrative the whole thing!

They are accused of being responsible for a number of online piracy of copyrighted works on a large scale. You deserve to criminal activities with some 175 million U.S. dollars and have caused a damage of around 500 million U.S. dollars, divide the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice jointly. The focus of the U.S. authorities are the companies Megaupload Limited and the persons behind VestorLimited. This threatens to various offenses by 5 to 20 years in prison It would involve one of the biggest cases of criminal copyright infringement in the United States, said the U.S. Department of Justice.

$ 175 million worth! An anonymous "shell company" in an "offshore" Land costs only a few $ 1,000. Directors and shareholders are only "name with smoke and mirrors" completely ANONYMOUS!

The mastermind of Megaupload, according to the U.S. authorities, the 37-year-old Kim Schmitz aka Kim Dotcom aka Kim Tim Jim Vestor, who lives in Hong Kong and New Zealand officially. He founded and was director Megaupload and sole member of Vestor Limited, a company belonging to the several Megaupload related websites.

Officially live in a country which is under the British Crown, and therefore EU law? Thats really stupid. And the sole shareholder? With fully own name! So, not an anonymous "offshore - Attorney Director!"

In addition to Kim Schmitz are also resident in Germany Finn Batato (Chief Marketing Officer), Sven Echternach (Head of Business Development), Mathias Ortmann (Chief Technical Officer and co-founder), who lives in Slovakia Julius Bencko (graphic designer), the Estonian Andrus Nomm (head of software development) and the person responsible for the network structure Dutchman Bram van der Kolk accused. Schmitz, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk, were arrested today at the request of U.S. authorities in New Zealand. Bencko Echternach and Nomm are still on the run.

Living in Germany ...? How stupid must be there? Slovakia belongs to the EU and therefore has to comply with EU laws. To New Zealand ... see above!US, Netherlands and Canada - all under copyright law.To purchase a villa on  OWN name in New Zealand and from there;-) copyright hurtful actions NOT AVOID!

THAT was the problem. MEGAUPLOAD yes because no laws had broken in the true sense. But when reminders go to delete files that are not followed copyright laws- is PUNISHABLE!

The FBI initiated into investigation of Megaupload, but also the law enforcement authorities of other countries were involved, such as the Federal Criminal Police Office. In February 2010 it was reported that Schmitz bought a rated at 30 million U.S. dollars Villa in New Zealand.

In addition, more than 20 raids conducted in eight countries, while Possession valued at approximately $ 50 million dollars and the server from Megaupload in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands seized. In addition, 18 domains were confiscated. Megaupload.com had claims to more than 1 billion visits, more than 150 million registered users and 50 million daily visitors. The service was financed by advertising and paid premium accounts. The business model of Megaupload had been aimed at users that upload popular copyrighted works, which are then offered for download millions of users. Here is the offer has been structured so that most users were prevented from using it for long-term retention of personal data as files are deleted if they were not downloaded on a regular basis. Of users were also rewarded financially for the uploading of popular content instead of their accounts blocked.