The U.S. Federal Government has taken down MegaUpload , the enomous file-sharing site endorsed by some major celebriries and partly run by Alicia Keys' husband Swizz Beatz.It's the latest twist in a rapidly widening fight over online content that includes the controversial Stop On Line Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation in Congress , which led scores of major websites to go dark on January 18 in protest .
In today's dramatic shutdown of MegaUpload , the Department of Justice called the site an "international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online privacy ."
At the request of American officals , several MegeUpload executives , including Kim Dotcom (Kim Schmitz) were arrested in New Zealand .
Beatz , who is listed as the company's CEO , was not named in the indictment .
In retaliation for the closing of MagaUpload , the hacker collective Anonymous claimed credit for taking down the websites of the Department of Justice , Universal Music , the Motion Picture Association and the Recording Industry Association of America .
A "cyberlocker" site , MegaUpload allowed users to transfer large files ... which was often copyrighted movies , games , TV episodes and music .
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