Megaupload boss: Site popular among US government users

Iain Thomson
The Register
March 12, 2012

The boss of the recently shut-down Megaupload file-sharing site claims that his records show plenty of US government users, including members of the Senate and the Department of Justice.

“Guess what – we found a large number of Mega accounts from US Government officials including the Department of Justice and the US Senate,” Kim Dotcom (formerly Schmitz), the portly potentate of Megaupload, told the Torrentfreak blog. “I hope we will soon have permission to give them and the rest of our users access to their files.”

No doubt government officials will claim that these accounts are for “research processes”, or owned by a few “bad apples”, but it does seem that Dotcom is willing to name names when his case comes the trial. Megaupload was one of the largest sites of its type, and the fallout could be very interesting if lists of users are made public.

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This article was posted: Monday, March 12, 2012 at 3:09 pm

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