The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Warner Music, UMG, Sony and Capitol and comes three days after Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a similar complaint. They claim Megaupload has earned more than $175m from pirated content and are causing "more than half a billion dollars in harm" to copyright owners.

"What works" on the web is not a mystery to publishers any more. The secrets of scaling are no longer confined to a sophomore's sock drawer in a Harvard dorm. This new age of digital enlightenment means that when organisations are born they come with built-in expectation inflation. No recent journalism launches have attracted the same interest as last week's Vox.com debut and the FiveThirtyEight's that preceded it.

Ralph Rivera, director for BBC Future Media, said: "The BBC was there at the beginning, helping to usher in a whole host of online technologies that are now ingrained in our everyday lives. The web certainly looked different back then but it has retained the same potential to change our lives for the better, and we continue to be at the forefront of this exciting industry. We're continually looking at how we can use the technology of tomorrow to bring even better services to our audiences today, and help improve access to information and entertainment."

Player FM, a podcast app and cloud service that we previously covered on Gigaom, added Chromecast support to its Android app Friday. Also now Chromecast-capable is Rocket Music, an Android music player that includes features like an equalizer and lyrics viewing. Don't want to listen to your podcasts or music on your TV? Then you can always turn Chromecast into a networked audio player.

Here's an archive of our career advice Q&A, with a focus on writing CVs, applying for journalism jobs and furthering your career. Whether you are a student looking to take your first steps on the career ladder, or a journalist wanting to pursue a new opportunity and keen to better understand which skills most impress editors today, our Q&A offers great advice from industry experts.

Telegraph photographer Lewis Whyld demonstrated one of his drones at the Shift conference in London on Friday. Whyld kidded on that he was going to use one of the full-size drones he has used to capture impressive cinemative aerial photography for the Telegraph. But instead he used a rather smaller device in the auditorium of the British Library. See the video here.

With a new focus and drive, the team are now offering on average 13 completely original videos per month, being a mixture of gear for music making, producer tips and the industry celebrated 'In The Studio With...' series - previously the preserve of the magazine's covermounted DVD - that has featured international artists such as Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, Armin Van Buuren, Martin Garrix among others.

Conservatives have created a BuzzFeed article, slagging off shadow chancellor Ed Balls. This is an interesting propaganda move ahead of the 2015 general election. With the 2010 election being called 'the first social media election', does this mean that tactics will ramp up for next year, with sites such as BuzzFeed used to poke fun at rivals, instead of using debates?

Speaking via Newswatch on the BBC iPlayer, BBC News Channel controller Sam Taylor revealed that Peaches Geldof's death on Monday saw "increased viewing figures well above normal on the news channel in the hours that followed" and "one of the biggest number of people reading the BBC website story," with 13.5 million views between 6:30pm and midnight on Monday 7 April.

The US publishing company, which is behind the Time, Fortune and People magazines, has been forced to leave its UK counterpart behind due to its departure from Time Warner whose empire includes the film and television studios Warner Bros and HBO.