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BIG Business! Swizz Beatz Is The CEO Of Megaupload?! (DETAILS)

Posted January 18, 2012 by Dimas Sanfiorenzo for Global Grind Staff

Swizz Beatz has a lot of titles: producer, rapper, clothing line designer and father.

Add CEO to that list.

The New York Post's Page 6 is reporting that Swizz Beat is the CEO of the popular storage and file delivery service Megaupload. It's something we all would have known if we ever looked at Megaupload's About Us page!

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Even though being CEO of one of the Internet's most entertaining tools is pretty cool, it also has its pitfalls, like the current situation Swizzy is in.

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Back in December, the file sharing site put a funny pro-Megaupload video on YouTube that featured Diddywill.i.amAlicia Keys, Kanye WestSnoop DoggChris BrownGameMary J. Blige and Kim Kardashian.

Universal Music Group instantly pulled the video off YouTube, with the company saying their artists’ performances were unauthorized. 

Megaupload then followed up with its own counter lawsuit to Universal. A Megaupload rep told page 6:

“We have never received any word that any artist has [individually] filed a take-down... [we have] legally binding agreements with the performers that appear in the video ... They promised that they had the rights to enter into that agreement and it’s not interfering with any third-party rights.”

This little spat between the two companies could get real interesting. Swizzy, all we have to say is, sometimes it costs to be the boss!

SOURCE: NY POST, Complex 


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