A day after sites like Wikipedia protested SOPA, federal prosecutors have shut down file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged its founder and others with piracy, the Associated Press reports.
The indictment puts the amount of lost revenue from Megaupload at $500 million, and says the site was once the 13th most popular website in the world.
The company lists rapper and producer Swizz Beatz — the husband of Alicia Keys, who endorsed Megaupload — as their CEO.
But the six defendants include Kim Dotcom, the site's founder, former CEO and chief innovation officer, and five others. Four, including Dotcom, have been arrested.
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