Did he get hundreds of millions in cash and dozens of luxury cars by pirating songs on the Internet?
Actually to that end he got millions in cash facilitating piracy of movies/tv/software
But, I misspoke--the point I intended to make is that MU was making far more from download users than upload users. I made it sound like subs weren't a part of that, but they were. It's a question of what they were actually paying for.
Technically the subscriptions were paying for storage, but the indictment also cites MUs on database as showing only 5 million out of 60+ million registered users ever uploaded anything.
I mean, is it really a file sharing service if the vast majority of your paying customers don't share any files?
Yes, the belief is that the source of his wealth was from MegaUpload and Mega.