Online File-sharing

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  Sony Pictures CEO Had 'No Playbook' For Mega-Hack on Studio

  The network was crippled. Days before Thanksgiving, Sony Pictures employees had logged onto computers that flashed a grim message from a hacker group calling itself Guardians of Peace. Soon personal information for tens of thousands of current and former workers was dumped online, including Social Security numbers and the purported salaries of top ...

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  Microsoft Partners With Dropbox for Online File-Sharing

  Microsoft said the functionality would be included in the next updates to the Office mobile apps, to be rolled out in the next few weeks, and online accessibility would be available in the first half of 2015.

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  Microsoft Partners With Dropbox for Online File-Sharing

  Microsoft already has OneDrive, but partnering with Dropbox will allow it to tap the firm's more than 200 million users.

• File-Sharing Start-Ups and Their IPO, Buyout Plans

  Originally a way for friends to share music and movies, online file sharing is now in high demand from big businesses seeking to swap costly data centers for secure storage in the cloud.

• Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to two years in Sweden hacking case

  A co-founder of file-sharing website Pirate Bay was sentenced to two years in jail today for hacking into computers at a company that manages data for Swedish authorities and making illegal online money transfers, a court said.

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  Kim Dotcom launches new file-sharing site, gets half a million users in 14 hours

  Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website "Mega" that promises users greater privacy.

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  Megaupload founder to launch secure file-sharing sequel, Mega

  Dotcom's new venture, aims to recreate the success of his Megaupload empire, which boasted of 50 million daily visitors.

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  Megaupload founder to launch new file-sharing website, music service

  Kim Dotcom is planning to launch a replacement of his shuttered website and a new online music service by year's end.

• US shuts down websites in piracy crackdown

  In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized this week by Immigration and Customs...

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  Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down

  One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.

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  Megaupload founder denies piracy, demands release

  The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload.com appeared in a New Zealand court Monday demanding to be released from prison and denying he had done anything illegal.

• Megaupload founder denies piracy, demands release

  The founder of file-sharing site Megaupload.com appeared in a New Zealand court Monday demanding to be released from prison and denying he had done anything illegal.

• 'Anonymous' hackers briefly hijack French Elysee website

  The shadowy online hackers group Anonymous briefly hijacked the French presidential website on Friday in apparent retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.

• Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down

  One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.