 On January 19, the website was shut down and its founder, Kim Dotcom, along with four others involved in the website, were arrested.The indictment issued claims that Megaupload has cost copyright holders $500 million due to its facilitation of illegal downloads.The MPAA requested Carpathia, Megaupload's server host, to retain Megaupload's 25 petabytes of data in case the MPAA decided to sue Megaupload for copyright infringement.