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Megaupload's Takedown: How Is Swizz Beatz Involved?

Swizz Beatz, a.k.a Kasseem Dean or Mr. Alicia Keys, was officially listed on Megaupload's website as its CEO prior to the site's shutdown, but he hasn't been implicated in the lawsuit that led to the site's takedown. In fact, the Atlanta-based rapper's role in the file-sharing website has come under scrutiny, as its power players seem to be based primarily in New Zealand. The indictment, which was handed down on January 5 and led to the shuttering of Megaupload on January 19, led to seven people being charged and four arrested, including the site's founder, the oddly-named Kim Dotcom. But why didn't the feds go after the company's purported CEO?

Swizz Beatz's name and title appeared in the now-defunct About Us page, but that's about the only set-in-ink connection reports show he seems to have to the company. It's likely that he was listed in recent weeks after the company's late 2011 redesign, which saw the company partner with major recording artists, presumably for greater exposure. Beatz is not listed in the indictment as holding any share in Megaupload -- Dotcom owned 68 percent, and six other non-celebs owned the rest. In fact, Beatz's name doesn't come up at all in the 72-page document. And it was far from Beatz's primary gig: he also has titles as Reebok's creative director, KidRobot's brand ambassador and creative designer for Lotus Cars. If he acted as the CEO of Megaupload, it probably wasn't a time-consuming job.

So what, indeed, was Beatz's role in the company? Perhaps it was simply gaining star power for the brand. In December, Megaupload released a viral commercial featuring music superstars singing the praises of the site -- a quizzical move considering Megaupload's frequent implication in illegal file sharing. But sure enough, the video features the likes of P. Diddy, Will.i.am, Kim Kardashian and, naturally, Beatz's wife Alicia Keys, proclaiming their "love" for Megaupload. But shortly after the $3 million video gained viral steam, Universal Music Group, the record label that represents Diddy and Kanye West, among others featured in the video, requested the video be removed from YouTube. Why? Not unexpectedly, UMG claimed the artists' performances were unauthorized. Swizz Beatz and Megaupload fired back at UMG with a counter-suit to stop the label from blocking the video.

As part of Megaupload's Dec. 9 relaunch, the site was planning a new music venture called Musicbox that would allow artists to sell music directly to consumers, intended to shelve traditional labels. According to TorrentFreak.com, Megaupload's website was updated mere days ago to reflect Beatz's CEO title, though, as the page has now been deleted, it's impossible to verify when Beatz's name was added. But the feds weren't fooled, evidently.

As of Friday morning, Beatz had not yet sounded off about the effect of the Megaupload shuttering. The day of the shutdown, he tweeted a fortune cookie, with a caption simply reading "Blessings."

UPDATE: On Friday, Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken told VentureBeat that Swizz Beatz was not the CEO of the company. "To my knowledge, Swizz Beatz was never involved in any meaningful way," he said. "He was negotiating to become the CEO, but it was never official."

UPDATE 2: A spokeswoman for Swizz Beatz told the Wall Street Journal Friday that the musician and producer was named CEO, but that they "were trying to clarify" if the title was valid and determine how he was involved in the company.

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[95hellrazer]

were ALL fucked 

[TCOOOReggae]

@95hellrazer At least most of us.



[BroUmad1994]

@TCOOOReggae sir .. I live in the middle east do you think that I am doomed too ?

[TCOOOReggae]

@BroUmad1994 Where in the middle east do you live?

[BroUmad1994]

@TCOOOReggae Arabian Gulf/Persian Gulf.

[TCOOOReggae]

@BroUmad1994 So you were already a little bit restricted right. For example a lot of porn was shared on megaupload, I don't think you had the freedom to partake of that, did you? I don't want to talk about things I don't know but from what I gather from the western media you may not have all the internet freedom we enjoy in the west. Like even with megaupload being shutdown, I could go find another file sharing site and download some porn if I wanted to right now.

[fresh224ful]

Danny Brown sent me

[chicagopoetry]

Dude you are completely whacked. First of all they will have to successfully prosecute MegaUpload before they could go after their users, and that will take years and judging by all the holes in the indictment, that may never even happen. Look how long it took for them to act in regards to a blatant copyright infringer, now imagine how long it would take them to figure out the identities and successfully prosecute 130,000,000 users. The country would go bankrupt just attempting it.

[jslovin23]

all this effort over copyright laws, but our former president commit major abuse of power laws that no prosecutor wants to touch. How about wall street and banks that screwed house owners and most of America.

[bomfunk1991]

i have never used megaupload to download large files(movies,games,os...) or any other sharing websites !! i use torrents because their infrastructure is totally legal ( visit wikipedia) and they have the largest user base in the world over 300,000,000 active users online(seeds/peers) !! they can never shut-down bittorent because it's peer 2 peer and nothing is ever uploaded on a server :D §§ last time i checked i downloaded 6542GB of torrents in the period of 3 years :D pretty cool !!

[chicagopoetry]

@TourianskiJulia Just in case you still think that the gov is going to prosecute twenty five percent of the world here is the breaking news, data from megaupload servers will actually be DELETED on Thursday,

news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-5736­8037-93/megaupload-data-could-­be-erased-thursday-says-report­/

[chicagopoetry]

@TourianskiJulia The point he is making is idiotic, dumbass. There are better ways of getting people's attention then by spreading bullshit lies, such as 25% of everyone has used MegaUpload. I doubt they will even be able to successfully prosecute MegaUpload let alone anyone who merely used it. Besides, copyright infringement IS illegal afterall, so if you don't want to get FUCKED don't participate in it.

[TourianskiJulia]

@chicagopoetry he's just making a point dumbass. Getting people to pay attention. It matters even if ONE person is fucked from this, and there have been hundreds now sued.

[msiloveanime123]

Shit... I have BitTorrent... Fuckers... YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!! XDD

[MrNatayada]

Shut up.....

[DarkvindFromIllier]

Ya know... All those news try to make Megaupload just a copyright case of them having illegal files... However, they basicly nullified every legal defense by not going by the copyright law by not removing the copyrighted files, just making the links for them invalid and they were also accused of money laundering... after a year long investigation.

[himadri0327]

I do not support SOPA/PIPA. This drama guy in this video is just crying wolf and trying to get famous by scaring people. Nothing is going to happen to any downloader from Megaupload. Watching this video was a waste of time.

[Rimersum]

Fuck china. Come at be bro's.