SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego’s mayor has ordered a two-month nighttime shutdown of a beach after cameras set up to monitor a seal colony captured people kicking, punching and sitting on top of mother seals and their pups. Original post on sfgate.com Comments on reddit.com
Eustace Conway, 51, who has been called ‘The Last Great American Man’ for his rustic way of living, could lose his camp in the Appalachian Mountains, his home for the past three decades. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom says that a “credible source” has indicated that US Vice President Joe Biden ordered the cloud-sharing website to be taken down in January. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Before Megaupload was shutdown the company was preparing to go public and enter the US stock market with a multi-billion dollar IPO. While the US authorities were conducting their criminal investigation, Megaupload had discussions with some of the ‘Big Four’ auditors and several of the world’s largest investments banks. The top of the financial world was looking at a huge potential tech IPO with a billion dollar valuation, but these plans ended abruptly in January. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
The recent federal takedown of notorious file-sharing service Megaupload was initially seen as a huge victory for owners of copyrighted music and movie Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown Bloomberg interviewed Yochai Benkler, Prof. of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Benkler criticizes the actions of the Department of Justice, which he characterizes as Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
