By: iPadfanzz staff on January 20, 2013
The internet entrepeneur Kim Dotcom’s follow-up to MegaUpload, which was closed by U.S. authorities over piracy concerns, has said his new file-sharing service, Mega, has gone live.
"As of this minute one year ago #Megaupload was destroyed by the US Government. Welcome to http://Mega.co.nz," he said in a tweet.
Soon after he further tweeted telling the world about the success in terms of heavy traffic of the new site. “Site is extremely busy. Currently thousands of user registrations PER MINUTE," he tweeted.
While launching the new site was launched at his estate north of Auckland, he announced that the new version sidesteps the America laws under which is being prosecuted for £175m worth of alleged online piracy, racketeering and money laundering.
"This is not some kind of finger to the U.S. government or to Hollywood. Legally, there's just nothing there that could be used to shut us down. This site is just as legitimate and has the right to exist as Dropbox, Boxnet and other competitors," he said.
According to Dotcom, the new site unlike its predecessor empowers the users about which users can access uploaded files. He further added that a sophisticated encryption system will help the users to encode their files before they upload them on to the site's servers.
The bypassing of ownership enables the site’s owners of liability for knowingly enabling users to distribute copyright-infringing content.
However, he further said that Mega would heed to requests from copyright holders to remove infringing material.
Earlier in January 2012, Megaupload was shut down when New Zealand police seized computers and other evidence at the request of US authorities.
The internet entrepeneur Kim Dotcom’s follow-up to MegaUpload, which was closed by U.S. authorities over piracy concerns, has said his new file-sharing service, Mega, has gone live.
"As of this minute one year ago #Megaupload was destroyed by the US Government. Welcome to http://Mega.co.nz," he said in a tweet.
Soon after he further tweeted telling the world about the success in terms of heavy traffic of the new site. “Site is extremely busy. Currently thousands of user registrations PER MINUTE," he tweeted.
While launching the new site was launched at his estate north of Auckland, he announced that the new version sidesteps the America laws under which is being prosecuted for £175m worth of alleged online piracy, racketeering and money laundering.
"This is not some kind of finger to the U.S. government or to Hollywood. Legally, there's just nothing there that could be used to shut us down. This site is just as legitimate and has the right to exist as Dropbox, Boxnet and other competitors," he said.
According to Dotcom, the new site unlike its predecessor empowers the users about which users can access uploaded files. He further added that a sophisticated encryption system will help the users to encode their files before they upload them on to the site's servers.
The bypassing of ownership enables the site’s owners of liability for knowingly enabling users to distribute copyright-infringing content.
However, he further said that Mega would heed to requests from copyright holders to remove infringing material.
Earlier in January 2012, Megaupload was shut down when New Zealand police seized computers and other evidence at the request of US authorities.
