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In a Skype interview with British publication, The Guardian, eccentric entrepreneur Kim Dotcom confirmed that he planned to introduce a mail encryption service with his new platform Mega.
Dotcom, whose real name is Kim Schmitz, said that Mega had amassed 3 million registered users since its launch last month. He said that in its first operational month, 125 million files were stored on the platform. Continue Reading
Kim Dotcom has announced that Mega, the new site he launched in January will start accepting bitcoin as currency for storage packages. On Saturday he tweeted; “#Mega now accepts #BITCOIN via our newest reseller Bitvoucher: https://bitvoucher.co/”
Mega offers its users an incredible amount of storage, with 50GB available for free and options to purchase as much as 4TB.
Just recently, Reddit announced their plans to accept the virtual currency as payment for their Gold accounts as bitcoin grows in stature and popularity. Continue Reading
In another strange twist in Kim Dotcom’s battle against the copyright-mongers, the video of his Mega Launch party was taken off YouTube by what appears to be a bogus copyright infringement takedown claim.
Dotcom’s Mega launch party was a grandiose affair which featured numerous different musical performances. The whole thing was broadcast live over the web and a recording was put up on YouTube yesterday. However it was only up for a few hours before German music rights group GEMA put in the claim and had it taken down.
This incident might feel a little like déjà vu to Kim Dotcom, because a few years ago he had a similar problem.
Back in 2011, despite the fact that Megaupload was in the U.S. government targets, Dotcom recorded and released a promotional video that featured some of music’s biggest names. Continue Reading
Since larger-than-life entrepreneur Kim Dotcom launched file-hosting and storage site Mega on Saturday, a hell of a lot has been written about the new service and indeed the exceedingly flamboyant party that Dotcom hosted at his New Zealand mansion to celebrate the launch.
There was a colorful Māori performance on a festival-sized stage, a powerful and affecting speech from Dotcom himself and of course the “agents” rappelling into the party from a black helicopter that was labeled FBI – a stunt put on by Dotcom to commemorate the raid that took place at his property, exactly one year prior to the launch of Mega.
Fans of Dotcom and Mega who weren’t lucky enough to attend the launch party in person (and I imagine that there are many of you) can now watch it in its entirety as Dotcom has been kind enough to put it YouTube!
This weekend larger-than-life entrepreneur Kim Dotcom launched his eagerly anticipated file-hosting and storage site Mega and had a flamboyant party to celebrate this at his New Zealand mansion.
The site went live on Saturday and in under an hour it had acquired more than 100,000 members and the numbers continued to grow at an unprecedented rate reaching a quarter of a million in just a few hours. In fact, the demand for the site was so high that it could not cope and many visitors were unable to access the site that day. Dotcom wasn’t worried by the overload however, tweeting:
Attempts by the U.S. authorities to get Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom extradited took a major blow this week when Justice Helen Winkelmann deemed that the police who raided Dotcom’s Auckland mansion acted illegally.
More than 90 officers were involved in the operation in January which saw the Megaupload founders’ house completely ransacked. Police arrived at the property in helicopters and reports state that they even cut through to the safe room where Dotcom was hiding and arrested him!
Justice Winkelmann criticized the police involved in the raid, stating that they had ‘exceeded authority’. In a 56-page document, Winkelmann made a number of damning statements about the way in which the police working on the case had behaved. She said that the warrants that were used in the January raid (which also saw the homes of several others connected to Megaupload searched) were too broadly cast. She said that these warrants were: “lacking adequate specificity as to the offence…The search and seizure was therefore illegal.” Continue Reading
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