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(Digital Music News) he FBI and Department of Justice are continuing to make their case against MegaUpload, especially as attention shifts towards trial phase. According to expanded indictment documents sent to Digital Music News by DOJ prosecutors, 90 percent of all MegaUpload users were exclusively downloading content – without ever uploading a single file. ”Although the defendants have claimed more than 180 million registered users, the records on their internal computer systems suggest that they had only 66.6 million registered users as of Jan. 19, 2012,” DOJ prosecutors relayed.
“The records also indicate that only 5.86 million of these users ever uploaded a single file to either Megaupload.com or Megavideo.com, demonstrating that more than 90 percent of their registered users only used the defendants’ systems to download.”
On the flip side, a portion of the remaining 10 percent were exclusively uploading content, which means that the percentage of users actively uploading and downloading files was staggeringly low. Which, if the FBI stats are accurate, makes MegaUpload look more like a candy store than a healthy locker service.
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