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Megaupload’s lawyer once defended Clinton

4 of 7 arrested on copyright charges

By Matthew Barakat

 |  Associated Press  

  January 21, 2012

In what authorities have called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the FBI have seized the website Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.

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