He claimed that a reboot of controversial file-hosting site MegaUpload was nearly complete. "Quick update on the new Mega: Code 90% done. Servers on the way. Lawyers, Partners & Investors ready. Be patient. It's coming," Read his tweet for more info.
Yes that's right: according to news, Dotcom announced on Saturday that he was re-launching a new version of MegaUpload which slammed him with charges of money laundering, racketeering and criminal copyright infringement a year ago. Now he is launching a new site which is based on Music Platform and will give full control over their own work and a healthy revenue stream to artists and while taking down the "dinosaur record labels" who were behind his arrest.
Behind The Scene Of MegaBox
Promo Of MegaBox
Megabox will be used To listen to songs, in which users will have two options one is to purchase the music from them and second is to installing "Megakey" software in their computer to listen for free. The Megakey software, as Dotcom explained to Torrentfreak, acts like ad-blocking software—except that it isn't. Megakey allows most advertisements to appear, but replaces about 15 percent of the ads served up by websites with ads hosted by Megabox.
To Give you more information on what happened to MegaUpload and Kim DotCom read this. In 2005 Schmitz who legally changed his last name from "Schmitz" to "Dotcom" founded MegaUpload as a one-click file sharing and hosting service. In 2012, the site founded that it is receiving four percent of all internet traffic, and had been classified as a pirate-heavy "rogue website" by the MPAA, RIAA, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MegaUpload was taken down by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 19th, 2012.
One day later the site's founder and members of the his team were arrested. According to defense attorneys, officers arrived at the sprawling Dotcom estate by helicopter and cut their way into the home's safe room to retrieve Dotcom, who had barricaded himself inside and was allegedly found with a sawed-off shotgun nearby and he was possessed various concealed passports, refused bail on the grounds that he had a helicopter in his backyard. After that he was under house arrest with no access to the Internet.
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