The Return of Megaupload!

Not intentionally trying to get your hopes up, and we've still got roughly two months to go, but the CEO of MegaUpload just released the following information on November 1, 2012.

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Kim DotCom is again making news on his most current release of information pertaining to the "son of MegaUpload".

DotCom told Reuters today that he will launch Mega, the son of MegaUpload, near the first anniversary of the police raid on his home and the shutdown of MegaUpload, a storage service accused of hosting millions of pirated movies, music and other digital media.

Police in New Zealand arrested DotCom last January at the request of the U.S. government, which has alleged in an indictment that DotCom and six associates are guilty of criminal copyright violations, conspiracy, and money laundering. DotCom and the other defendants deny wrongdoing and are fighting attempts by U.S. prosecutors to extradite him to this country to stand trial.

The new cloud storage service will differ from MegaUpload in an important ways, according to DotCom. First, instead of using the .com domain, it will operate on the Gabon-based domain .ga, as Me.ga.

The service will also not make use of any U.S. hosting companies. Mega will also enable copyright owners will be able to get "direct delete access" of pirated content provided they agree not to hold Mega's operators responsible for the infringement, DotCom told Reuters.

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Source website: MegaUpload will be reborn as Me.ga in January | Internet & Media - CNET News

So it's not the return of MegaUpload, but the birth of Me.ga? Misleading title or what!

I just hope for Kim's sake he wins against the feds. Seems like such a genuine guy.

me.ga was shut down like 2 weeks ago.

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/267906977273876480

At least they won't be liable for any copyright infringement on the new Mega website :)

I've been waiting for a while. Ever since Kim posted on twitter in like June about megaupload will return.

Sounds like Dotcom has his things in order, should be interesting to see how it turns out.

Read about this a couple of days ago. I still don't think MegaUpload or 'MEGA' will be the same as it was at first.

This is amazing news.

Kim Dotcom - Megaupload Song HD - YouTube

M.E.G.A UPLOAD to me today send me a file MEGAUPLOAD!:rolleyes:

The fact the domain me.ga was taken down even though the site wasn't even up yet really irritated me :(

That's so ingenious though? I can't believe it hadn't already been taken advantage of!

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Originally Posted by MentaL

me.ga was shut down like 2 weeks ago.

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I am pretty surprised nobody saw that the link - me.ga was just a redirect domain,the website is still up,just the domain is dead.

see by yourself :
MEGA

the .ga extension is from Gabon iirc. They didn't want the trouble so prevented me.ga :(

It's unfortunate that the .ga site was closed, but that particular matter is sheepish in comparison to the January 19, 2013 release date set by Dotcom. Perhaps it won't be the same as the old site, or nearly as powerful (or lacking the same rules), but it'll still conquer the "uploading" world, and have the strongest cloud servers.. or at least, I'm forced to assume so.