Copyright is a form of protection to an authors work such as music, pictures, videos, writing. I found an article called "US shuts down popular file sharing website megaupload.com".Basically megaupload.com was a filesharing website that people used to pirate music and movies.Megaupload generated more than $175 million in criminal proceeds and caused more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners. This was the largest criminal case ever brought by the US and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.