Nov 10, 2017 · German investigators shut down an illegal file-sharing site with around 27,000 members as part of a police sting targeting 42 suspects across Germany, the Frankfurt attorney general's office said

February 2012 – FileServe and Filesonic, both popular file sharing sites voluntarily stop all sharing services, while another site, uploaded.to, begins blocking all IP addresses from the U.S. February 2012 – Btjunkie , one of the most popular BitTorrent sites voluntarily shuts down. Mar 08, 2012 · Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US. The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Jul 21, 2016 · Kickass Torrents -- the world's top website for illegally sharing movies, TV shows and music -- has been taken down by the U.S. government. The website's alleged owner, Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old 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

Jan 19, 2012 · But amid the SOPA political backlash comes a huge announcement by federal authorities that Megaupload, one of the world's biggest file-sharing sites, has been shut down and some of its key leaders

Kickass Torrents -- the world's top website for illegally sharing movies, TV shows and music -- has been taken down by the U.S. government. The website's alleged owner, Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old News From Nepal updated daily breaking news, politics, business, forex, culture, tourism, economy, health, sports news, world news, travel news File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.File sharing may be achieved in a number of ways. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, World Wide Web-based MegaUpload, one of the largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The site's founder Kim Dotcom and three others were arrested by the police

Megaupload wasn't the first peer-to-peer service forced to closed shop. See which other sites have bitten the dust in the past.

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 After over a decade helping people download movies, music and other files, popular file-sharing service RapidShare will shut down next month, by choice. The site is advising people who use it to 1 File-sharing site isoHunt to be shut down as part of settlement with MPAA. 2 Fitbit may soon make emergency ventilators to tackle COVID-19 crisis, says CEO James Park. 3 Apple promotes its Everyone can Create, Everyone can Code initiative with series of inspiring videos.