[Mikel VizzualbazzikHck] The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large. "This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime," said a statement posted on its website. The FBI website was intermittently unavailable on Thursday evening due to what officials said was being "treated as a malicious act". The hackers' group Anonymous said it was carrying out the attacks. The Motion Picture Association of America's website also suffered disruption. Third-party sites The charges included, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering. A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized. The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m (£32m) in assets had been seized. It claimed that the accused had pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works. "The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content, and publicised...
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