2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand (apnews.com)

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U.S. prosecutors say Megaupload raked in at least $175 million — mainly from people who used the site to illegally download songs, television shows and movies -— before the FBI shut it down in early 2012 and arrested Dotcom and other company officers.

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