Kim Dotcom recently unveiled Mega, a new service that he plans to launch on January 19, 2013. Ever since MegaUpload was taken down, Dotcom has apparently been involved in the development of the service which he claims will be the first of his kind. Now, he has given us a glimpse of one of the racks of the new Mega.
Kim Dotcom, the founder of MegaUpload, recently caused quite a stir when he announced a new cloud-based service called Me.ga. However, things may not be too smooth for Me.ga, as the Gabon government, where the domain is based, has announced that it would suspend the new website.
Kim Dotcom seems to have a lot of interesting ideas up his sleeve. While he has recently launched a new cloud service called ‘Mega’, he is now eyeing the $400 million cable project for New Zealand. The project would significantly bring down costs of broadband in New Zealand while at the same time, bolstering bandwidth.
The content industry has been actively hunting down file-sharing websites, with the most notable example being that of MegaUpload. It has been argued in the past that file-sharing promotes the overall music sales. And now a comprehensive study about the file-sharing trends in the U.S. and Germany establishes that file-sharers buy up to 30% more music compared to those who don’t indulge in P2P sharing.
In recent past, a number of popular file-sharing and torrent sites have been taken down by the U.S. authorities. The pretext to do so is simple – the whims of the content industry. Online pirates lost Demonoid, Megaupload and BTJunkie this year, besides others. But a number of anti-piracy over-active groups seem quite ignorant of this.
FBI convinced New Zealand’s anti-terrorism squad to arrest 38 year old Kim Dotcom, a German national and the founder of well popular file sharing site Megaupload. He was arrested on January 19. FBI brought copyright infringement and piracy charges against him. Kim Dotcom wanted to see the allegation evidences, but FBI didn’t show him. On last Monday, 13 August Kim Dotcom got his bail and the New Zealand court has ordered FBI to show Kim Dotcom and his lawyers the allegation evidences, otherwise the extradition hearing will not happen. Seems like the case is going towards a new direction.
Surfthechannel.com owner has been sentenced for four years prison by the UK authorities for the copyright infringement. Anton Vickerman, 38, founder of Surfthechannel, is the first British citizen in the United Kingdom who got this prison for running pirated content website.
Kim Dotcom, the founder of file sharing site Megaupload that was shut down in this January by the FBI, had been struggling to get a bail. He finally got it suddenly on Monday morning. And, after being released from police custody, Kim Dotcom announced his new take on the content industry. This time, it would follow the law and it would be disruptive. So, what is it? Megabox. A music download service that will allow artists to sell their works directly to users.