Megaupload coder pleads guilty, admits to illegal downloads of copyright infringing content

The U.S. government has its first conviction of a Megaupload employee, nearly three years after a raid took down the site for good. Andrus Nomm, a coder for the site living in the Netherlands, plead guilty to criminal copyright infringement, and as part of the plea agreement, Nomm also had to admit that Megaupload stored copyright-infringing content and that he downloaded such files from ... [ read the full article ]