1. Realice un comentario del artículo propuesto (género, público objetivo,

pertinencia del título y de la división en párrafos). Este comentario debe ser

breve y concreto. 

2. Realice un resumen (en inglés) del texto en 200-250 palabras y asígnele un título

diferente.

1. El artículo es un texto informativo, ya que presenta la información y los datos

pertinentes a la ocasión. Está destinado a un público adulto y específicamente

interesado en la informática, y que entiende términos como “servers”, “file-sharing”,

y que entiende el concepto de guardar información en servidores externos. Es

decir, está destinado a aquellas personas que comprenden el funcionamiento de

internet. Además, tiene que existir en el lector cierto conocimiento del problema

que hubo con Megaupload y Kim Dotcom. El título es claro y corto, resume en

pocas palabras el contenido de la noticia. Además, es como otros títulos vistos en

clase, no se estructure como una oración, pero se comprende igualmente. Los

párrafos son cortos y resumen los hechos entre Kim Dotcom y LeaseWeb.

2. Megaupload vs. LeaseWeb

The problems for Megaupload have not yet finished. In January 2012 the page was

shutdown and the founder, Kim Dotcom, was accused of racketeering, fraud, money

laundering and copyright theft.

The function of Megaupload was to store in different servers the information the users

uploaded. Most of the servers agreed to store the information until the end of the trial was

reached, but one of them, LeaseWeb, has now deleted all the data belonging to European

users. Although they allege that they had informed Mr. Dotcom what was about to happen,

through twitter, he said that nobody in Megaupload had been informed about this.

“After a year of nobody showing any interest in the servers and data we considered our

options,” said LeaseWeb. “We did inform Megaupload about our decision to re-provision

the servers.”

In response to this, Dotcom tweeted: “Let me be crystal clear. #LeaseWeb has never

informed our legal team or anybody at #Megaupload about the deletion of servers until

today.”

This is indeed a sad day for the Internet, as Mr. Dotcom said. All the information stored in

that server, belonging to thousands of users is now lost. And Kim Dotcom is still facing trial

and extradition to the United States for the storage and sharing services he offered,

although his hearing is now scheduled for November 2013.