Sixth richest woman in China gets death sentence

High Court of Zhejiang Province, China, Rejecting an appeal to the 6th richest woman in China and remain on the death penalty that had convicted him. Women 30 years this has been proven guilty of fraud up to 380 million yuan, or Rp86, 2 billion.

As reported by Shanghai Daily, Wednesday, January 18, 2012, Wu Ying, a formercorporate conglomerate Bense, sentenced to death in December 2009, abolishedall political rights, and confiscated all his possessions. In January 2010, he filed an appeal.

According to court Zhejiang, Wu Ying facts of the case are very clear and the evidence against him can be trusted, and quite adequate. The court said Wu had caused losses to the state and society, and should be severely punished.

Wu fraud carried out on the range in May 2005 until February 2007. At that time, Wuacted as a broker who set up an investment fund investors. Operation for two years,Wu has attracted funding of 770 million yuan (Rp1, 1 trillion) from 19 investors.

Wu pledged 80 percent profit per year. However, rather than invested, Wu used the money to pay her debts which amounted to more than 700 million yuan.

Continued deception, and Bense uses to set up a company engaged in theconstruction and hotel services.
Through this company, Wu benefit tremendously. Through Bense also the Wu was asked to become the sixth richest woman in China in 2006 Hurun magazine.

According to Xinhua, Wu get a death sentence over the protests of many people.The opportunity came to Wu as China abolishing death sentence against 13economic crimes, and crimes without violence. However, the court Zhejiangremained on their decisions

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Megaupload is Dead

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — One of the world's most popular file-sharing sites was shuttered Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.

An indictment accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to make it easier for authorities to go after websites with pirated material, especially those with overseas headquarters and servers.

Megaupload is based in Hong Kong, but some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Va., which gave federal authorities jurisdiction, the indictment said.

The Justice Department said in a statement said that Kim Dotcom, 37, and three other employees were arrested Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials. Three other defendants are at large.

Before Megaupload was taken down, it posted a statement saying allegations that it facilitated massive breaches of copyright laws were "grotesquely overblown."

"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's Internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch," the statement said.

The indictment may have prompted a response from the loose affiliation of hackers known as "Anonymous," which claimed credit for attacking the Justice Department's website. The site was inaccessible Thursday evening.

"The Department of Justice web server hosting justice.gov is currently experiencing a significant increase in activity, resulting in a degradation in service," the agency said in a statement. "The Department is working to ensure the website is available while we investigate the origins of this activity, which is being treated as a malicious act until we can fully identify the root cause of the disruption."

A spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America said in an emailed statement Thursday that the group's site had been hacked, although it appeared to be working later Thursday evening.

"The motion picture and television industry has always been a strong supporter of free speech," the spokesman said. "We strongly condemn any attempts to silence any groups or individuals."

Megaupload was unique not only because of its massive size and the volume of downloaded content, but also because it had high-profile support from celebrities, musicians and other content producers who are most often the victims of copyright infringement and piracy. Before the website was taken down, it contained endorsements from Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys and Kanye West, among others.

The company listed Swizz Beatz, a musician who married Keys in 2010, as its CEO. He was not named in the indictment and declined to comment through a representative.

According to the indictment, Megaupload was estimated at one point to be the 13th most frequently visited website on the Internet. Current estimates by companies that monitor Web traffic place it in the top 100.

The five-count indictment, which alleges copyright infringement as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering and racketeering, described a site designed specifically to reward users who uploaded pirated content for sharing, and turned a blind eye to requests from copyright holders to remove copyright-protected files.

For instance, users received cash bonuses if they uploaded content popular enough to generate massive numbers of downloads, according to the indictment. Such content was almost always copyright protected.

The site boasted 150 million registered users and about 50 million hits daily. The Justice Department said it was illegal for anyone to download pirated content, but their investigation focused on the leaders of the company, not end users who may have downloaded a few movies for personal viewing.

A lawyer who represented the company in a lawsuit last year declined comment Thursday. Efforts to reach an attorney representing Dotcom were unsuccessful.

Megaupload is considered a "cyberlocker," in which users can upload and transfer files that are too large to send by email. Such sites can have perfectly legitimate uses. But the Motion Picture Association of America, which has campaigned for a krackdown on piracy, estimated that the vast majority of content being shared on Megaupload was in violation of copyright laws.

The website allowed users to download some content for free, but made money by charging subscriptions to people who wanted access to faster download speeds or extra content. The website also sold advertising.

The indictment was returned in the Eastern District of Virginia, which claimed jurisdiction in part because some of the alleged pirated materials were hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Va. Prosecutors there have pursued multiple piracy investigations.

Steven T. Shelton, a copyright lawyer at the Cozen O'Connor firm in New York, said opponents of the legislation are worried the proposals lessen the burden for the government to target a wide variety of websites. Shelton said he expects to see the government engage in more enforcement in the future, as technology makes it easier to catch and target suspected pirates.

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Burn Your Fat with Zumba Dance

Many ways you can do to burn off unwanted fat on the body. In addition to running on the treadmill, there are other, more enjoyable.

Dance-based exercise can be an option for those who are lazy to go to the gym.Experts say, dance-based exercise can make fitness more fun dancing at the same time hone talent.

"It kills two birds with one stone," said instructor aerobics class-inflected Bollywood,Rahul Nath as reported by Reuters pages.

Nath said the dance-based exercise allows a person to learn the basics of the dance world as well as burn calories and cardio training.

"You get out of class with sweat dripping. This is what all people want when theycome to the gym," he said.

According to Nath, not classes of dance fitness class for the dancers. Nath who is also a professional dancer and actor said, there are technical differences betweena fitness class with dance classes.

"Fitness is the key, to simplify the movement and get more elements of aerobics in there," he said.

Classes for dancers typically involve five or six movements in 10 seconds on a regular basis. As for fitness classes typically involve the same movement for 30seconds.

"People feel comfortable in the movement. Then I moved to another motion with the format," he said.

Bollywood dances are generally classified as a dance to accompany the Indian filmsoundtracks. However, Nath explains, the genre really has absorbed so muchwestern influence, ranging from hip-hop to rhythm and blues (R & B).

"(Choosing) the music is half the battle," said Nath. "Most people in my class was not a dancer or an Indian. That's what makes the class so interesting."

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