Last year was a banner year for production in the nation’s capital -- more than a dozen high-budget film and television projects ranging from “Bourne Identity 4 to “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss ‘Obese’ Season 2” spent time in the city -- but its future as a film location may be in jeopardy.

As the Washington Post noted this week, filming there got even harder this year, thanks to security concerns and jurisdictional tugs-of-war over the city’s more picturesque locales...

The Department of Justice’s takedown of New Zealand-based Megaupload is having reverberations throughout cyberspace.

Popular file-sharing sites FileSonic and Uploaded.to have dramatically truncated services on their sites, with FileSonic limiting users to retrieving only those files the they personally uploaded, according to several reports.

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Uploaded.to has suspended service in the U.S. but, according to slashgear.com, is still available in other parts of the world.

The actions of the two file lockers appear to be in reaction to the...

Hacking collective Anonymous shut down the Department of Justice’s website Thursday, along with those of several other organizations that support anti-piracy efforts.

Among the victims: Universal Music Group, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the U.S. Copyright Office.

YourAnonNews, a Twitter account affiliated with the group, said this was its biggest attack yet.

The immediate impetus for the attack was the Department of Justice’s indictment of seven owners and operators of file sharing site Megaupload....

Federal authorities have charged the owners and operators of the video locker service Megaupload with operating a criminal enterprise that distributes pirated material, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday. 

Although the sites they operate advertised that they provide personal storage for users' content, the indictment claims they actually trafficked in hosting television shows and movies -- often offering them to users before their official release.  

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