The FBI on Thursday shut down popular file-sharing website Megaupload.com and charged the site’s founders and five others with running “an international organized criminal enterprise” responsible for “massive online piracy.”

Megaupload Limited and sister company Vestor Limited generated “more than $175 million in criminal proceeds” and caused “more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners” through the piracy of “numerous types of copyrighted works,”according to FBI.

Seven people have been charged with online piracy crimes in an indictment, dated Jan. 5 and unsealed in northern Virginia. Four of those suspects are already in custody, authorities said.

Among those charged are site founders Kim Dotcom and Kim Tim Jim Vestor and Chief Marketing Officer Finn Batato.

Megaupload CEO Swizz Beatz, a rapper and producer and husband to pop star Alicia Keys, was not listed among those charged. Read More

Mixtape: Kirko Bangz “Progression 2: A Young Texas Playa”

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January 19, 2012

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Ski Beatz feat. Curren$y – “Fly”

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January 18, 2012

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Ski Beatz drops the third single off his upcoming album 24 Hour Karate School Presents Twilight in stores February 14, 2012.

New Reality Series: Dirtee Money coming soon

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January 18, 2012

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Dave Bishop, Sharonda Taylor and Fauna Burks Celebrates NYE “Dirtee Money Reality Series” coming soon…

log on to : www.dirteemoney.com for more info

GWOP Report: 10 Year Old Entrepreneur, Moziah Bridges

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January 17, 2012

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A 10-year-old boy is a bow tie entrepreneur.

Moziah Bridges is the designer and proprietor of Mo’s Bows.

Although his mom still helps him get dressed now and then, Moziah — or Mo — is a young dandy, a well-dressed man with a sense of flair.

Bridges is exacting when it comes to his designs, choosing colors and patterns from his grandmothers’ fabric collection that dates back 50 years. Read More

Happy 70th Born Day Muhammad Ali

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January 17, 2012

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“It’s Hard to Be Humble, when you’re as great as I am”

–Muhammad Ali aka Cassius Clay

“It’s not bragging if you can back it up”

–Muhammad Ali

more pics of Ali after the jump.

NIKE: Welcome to the #KobeSystem

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January 17, 2012

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Where do you go from the top? You go over the top. The #KobeSystem: Success for the Successful is Kobe’s winning, results-oriented philosophy on how to adapt to succeed. You’re Welcome.

The First Album Recorded Entirely on the iPhone

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January 17, 2012

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Alabama-based rock band One Like Son wanted to challenge themselves when they returned to the “studio” to record their third album after a 10-year music hiatus. So on Jan. 1, 2010, band frontman Stephen Poff vowed to spend the year recording a new set of songs solely with iPhone track apps.

“I feel this is one of our best sounding recordings,” Poff said. In the past, Poff recorded two albums the traditional way – in a studio using condenser microphones, hard disc systems, amps, cables, patchbays and other accessories.

According to Poff, recording tracks using only applications was much more difficult than he anticipated. His previous iPhone-recording experience only involved experimenting on basic four-track applications that allows users to record, then overlay four tracks of music to play together.

The 11-track album was finished right before the new year on Dec. 31, 2011. Read More

Weekend @ The Box Office: January 13-15

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January 17, 2012

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Title/ Weekend Gross (in Millions USD $$$)

Contraband $24.5 m
Beauty and The Beast (3D) $17 m
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol $11.7 m
Joyful Noise $11.2 m
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $8.6 m

Wikipedia Blackout: Websites Wikipedia, Reddit, Others Go Dark Wednesday to Protest SOPA, PIPA

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January 17, 2012

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Google, Twitter Also Protest Bills Meant to Protect Movies and Music From Online Piracy

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Wikipedia will go dark all day Jan. 18, 2012, along with Reddit and Boing Boing as a protest to the SOPA and PIPA bills from Congress.
Do not try to look up “Internet Censorship” or “SOPA” or “PIPA” on Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, on Wednesday.
SOPA and PIPA are two bills in Congress meant to stop the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet, but major Internet companies say the bills would put them in the impossible position of policing the online world.
Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, now says his site will go dark for the day on Wednesday, joining a budding movement to protest the two bills.
“This is going to be wow,” Wales said on Twitter. “I hope Wikipedia will melt phone systems in Washington on Wednesday. Tell everyone you know!” Read More

Mixtape: Young Dro – We Outchea

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January 16, 2012

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Lil Boosie Letter To Fans From Jail

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January 16, 2012

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Currently awaiting trial for murder charges in April, Lil Boosie sends out a letter from the Angola State Prison to give fans an update on his current status. Read More