on january 19, 2012, the united states department of justice shut down the popular domain of megaupload (established 2005). the file sharing site has claimed to have over 50,000,000 people a day. kim dotcom (formerly kim schmitz) was arrested with three associates in new zealand on january 20, 2012 and is awaiting extradition. the case involving the downfall of the world's largest and most popular file sharing site was not well received, with hacker group anonymous bringing down several sites associated with the take-down. in the following days, other file sharing sites began to cease services; filesonic blocked public downloads on january 22, with fileserve following suit on january 23.