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The FBI has arrested three East Haven, Conn., police officers and one sergeant on charges of racially profiling Latinos. When asked what he would do to help the Latino community, East Haven mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. responded, I might have tacos when I go home, I'm not quite sure yet.

After the U.S. Department of Justice rejected South Carolina's voter ID law, Texas is anticipating a similar fate.

AT&T is expected Thursday by analysts to report net income of 44 cents a share, down 20 percent from 55 cents a share.

After Megaupload's entire service was shut down and its founders arrested, a new report has emerged, which details a new Megaupload venture called Megabox that would've given music artists more money than and leverage against the Recording Industry Association of America.

Hackers collective Anonymous will reportedly take down world's No.1 social network site Facebook on Jan. 28, according to a YouTube video. However, many people doubt whether that will happen.

Federal prosecutors shut down Megaupload and Megavideo last Thursday, accusing the Website's executives of mass copyright infringement. But not all of the site's 50-million daily users were breaking the law during their access.

While the FCC and Department of Justice haven't indicated opposition or concern, some people point to the wireless carrier's ability to roll out its 4G wireless network as reason that it doesn't need more spectrum.

The sudden crackdown on popular online storage and file-sharing site Megaupload has prompted rivals FileSonic and uploaded.to to commit suicide by voluntarily limiting their file-sharing services and allowing users to only retrieve the files they have personally uploaded. No wonder, the U.S. feds' action has left everybody wondering whether other sites like Rapidshare, MediaFire, Dropbox, etc., which offer file-sharing and cloud storage services, will be next in the crosshairs of anti-piracy ...

The hacktavist group Anonymous is launching a Megaupload & Megavideo alternative

This is not the first time Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom had his brush with the law. In 2002, he was convicted in what was then the largest insider-trading case in German history and a Munich court sentenced him to 20 months probation and a 100,000 euro fine. Can he win the legal battle this time?

In the wake of the U.S. Government's shutdown of file-sharing website Megaupload, another site, FileSonic, has suspended their file-sharing services

Anonymous hackers took down multiple Web sites involved in the SOPA/PIPA anti-piracy legislation push and Megaupload takedown, including justice.gov, RIAA.com and MPAA.com, on Thursday in an effort to protest against the bills. However, Anonymous tricked bystanders into aiding their attack.

Close on the heels of the Senate delaying the vote on PIPA (Protect IP Act), U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) also announced that the House of Represenative has shelved the anti-piracy bill SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) until there is wider agreement on a solution.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Friday reaffirmed his support of overturning a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

Web sites connected to SOPA were attacked and temporarily knocked offline. Notorious hacker collective Anonymous took credit for the attacks that included Whitehouse.gov, the DOJ Web site, and Web sites for the U.S. Copyright Office and Recording Industry Association of America. Anonymous claimed to have hacked the government sites in retalliation for the Megaupload sites, and the others because they are lobbying heavily for passage of SOPA.

Following the recent outrage of Netizens against the anti-piracy bill Protect IP Act (PIPA), the U.S. Senate announced, Friday, that it has delayed voting on the controversial bill, which was originally scheduled for next week.

Megaupload is reportedly part of one of the biggest criminal copyright infringement networks U.S. authorities have ever taken down. Seven people were indicted by a Virginia grand jury Jan. 19, and charged with racketeering, money laundering and other charges. Megaupload was allegedly using the Web site as a front for black market content swapping, and had many legitimate users on the site sharing many kinds of legal content. Members who felt cheated out of their money took to Facebook and Twitte...

Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload and otherwise known by his alias Kim Dotcom, was arrested by the Department of Justice Thursday for content piracy and losses to copyright owners that amount to $500 million. Schmitz was found by police in his New Zealand mansion's safe room, with what looked like a sawed-off shotgun Detective Inspector Grant Wormald said.

Popular file-sharing sites, Megaupload and Megavideo were shut down by federal prosecutors on Thursday and hackers from Anonymous retaliated by launching an attack on federal and public Web sites: The online battle over Internet piracy just got personal.

Megaupload.com was shut down on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted seven owners of the file-sharing site for content piracy and losses of half a billion dollars to those with copyrights. Contrary to rumors, music producer Swizz Beatz is not the CEO of Megaupload and does not own a stake in the company, according to court documents filed by the Department of Justice.

Within a few hours of the closure of the video locker service Megaupload, scammers have started flooding social networking sites and online forums with fake links claiming that the site is back online.