> ... cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million ... This bit is standard, trope-style make-believe. However: > ... paying users [...], wh

> ... cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million ... This bit is standard, trope-style make-believe. However: > ... paying users [...], which generated more than $175 million in revenue for the [Kim Dotcom's Megaupload] website. .. if they can prove that bit, it's a much more damning case. Not the usual hand-wavey 'We were banking on several thousand dollars of revenue from each of the 12yo's we're going after' claims, but actual, demonstrable, revenue that was misdirected.