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Me.ga Is Dead, Long Live Mega.co.nz

Kim Dotcom’s dream of hosting the follow-up to Megaupload at Me.ga fell through last week when Gabon’s government objected. No worry: instead it will appear at the rather less snappy Mega.co.nz. https://gizmodo.com/megauploads-new-website-me-ga-has-already-been-shut-dow-5958358 While it might not sound quite as good, chances are the new domain will be rather more secure with its New Zealand backing…

Megaupload’s New Website Me.ga Has Already Been Shut Down

Kim Dotcom has been hyping up Megaupload’s new website Mega for so long that it seemed like a given that the file sharing site would come back bigger and badder. But it doesn’t look likely because Me.ga has already been shut down by Gabon, a small country in Africa that controls the .ga domain. https://gizmodo.com/megaupload-s-new-website-is-me-ga-5956369…

Haha, Kim Dotcom Wants to Build an Underwater Broadband Pipeline

Kim Dotcom is trying to build an undersea broadband pipeline that connects Australia, New Zealand, and Los Angeles. Translation: the Megaupload founder is trying to resurrect a project that is seriously never going to happen. The project, called Pacific Fibre, is something Dotcom’s tried before. But it never got off the ground because Dotcom wasn’t…

Megaupload’s New Website Is Me.ga

Kim Dotcom just announced where Megaupload will be reborn: Me.ga. As in, that’s the new file sharing website that will officially launch on January 20th next year. Go check it out. Right now, it’s only a splash page that’s up at me.ga but it describes how Mega will work, details how to become a hosting…

MegaUpload Slated To Rise From the Ashes on the Anniversary of Its Death

MegaUpload has been down for almost a year now, but mastermind Kim Dotcom has had no intentions of letting it stay that way. Previously, he’s teased some details about a relaunch and the servers are bought and paid for. Now, we’ve got a date: January 19th, 2013, the one-year anniversary of the takedown. https://gizmodo.com/is-megaupload-relaunching-this-year-5934132 The…

The New Megaupload Has a Super Clever Way to Avoid Getting Raided Again

From the ashes of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom is launching a new file-sharing service: Mega. Mega is like Megaupload but will be safe from raids and government interference because it has “ironclad safe harbors” in place to protect Mega. How does it work? Though Mega is just like Megaupload once was in that it allows users…

Check Out Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom’s Next Project: Megabox

We’ve sort of known that Kim Dotcom was launching Megabox from the remains of Megaupload but we didn’t know exactly what it was. Now that Dotcom has leaked a video about the service, we have an idea: a music service that wants to destroy labels and put the artist in charge. https://gizmodo.com/is-megaupload-relaunching-this-year-5934132 This ain’t piracy.…

New Zealand Police Blamed for Kim Dotcom’s Illegal Surveillance

The case of Megaupload’s founder Kim Dotcom gets odder by the day, with the latest official documents revealing that the police simply didn’t know, or didn’t bother checking, if Kim Dotcom was a New Zealand citizen or not. The newest twist reveals that the Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand’s monitoring/spying department, asked the Organized…

Prime Minister Admits That Government Spies Illegally Bugged Kim Dotcom

As more details leak out about the investigation on Kim Dotcom, the more embarrassing it gets for government officials. After thinking Dotcom had a doomsday device, it’s now known that government spies illegally bugged Dotcom at the behest of the US government. https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-thought-kim-dotcom-had-a-doomsday-device-that-c-5933870 As ridiculous as Dotcom’s life may be, it seems like the government…

Megaupload is ready to make a comeback: its code is 90 percent done and servers have been ordered. [TorrentFreak]

US Suffers Another Blow in Its Case Against Kim Dotcom

Is it okay for me to say that I’m a little glad we’re doing so poorly in our case against Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom? I am. I am so glad. I miss Megaupload dearly and I’m truly pleased by this latest news: Judge Winkelmann of the High Court of New Zealand has upheld a ruling…

Is Megaupload Relaunching This Year?

Since the insane raid of his property earlier this year, Kim Dotcom has morphed into somewhat of an internet freedom fighter, garnering the support of Woz in the process. Now, he’s posted a tweet which suggests a very big Megaupload announcement is just round the corner. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-insane-special-forces-raid-against-kim-dotcom-5932918 The Next Web interpreted the message to mean…

Kim Dotcom Is Too Much Man for Cheap Lawn Furniture

Well, well, well. WELL. It seems we missed this animated GIF from the roundup of the best worst photos of Kim Dotcom. Clearly, Kim Dotcom is too much man for your cheap lawn furniture. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-worst-photos-of-megauploads-kim-dotcom-5877987 My apologies, folks. But don’t worry, here it is. Fixed. As you were. [Thanks Karl!]

Feds Are Going After Swizz Beatz to Take Down Megaupload

The feds are looking for an angle that lets them prosecute Megaupload on U.S. soil. And apparently the way they’re trying to make it happen is by pulling rapper and producer Swizz Beatz (a.k.a. Mr. Alicia Keys) into the case, by claiming he was CEO of the company. But wait—wasn’t this cleared up in January?…

Kim Dotcom: Please, Bring Us to America

We reported earlier that the legal proceedings in the case against Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom have been delayed to March 2013. And it seems Dotcom is none too pleased about this latest turn. “Hey DOJ, we will go to the US. No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & living expenses,”…

Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Pushed Back to March 2013

Legal proceedings against Kim Dotcom aren’t going so well for the US authorities. First a New Zealand court ruled that the Megaupload seizures were illegal, and now Dotcom’s extradition hearing has been pushed back to March 2013. The hearing was originally due to take place August 6th, but a series of complications—including the siezure ruling…

Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown

Kim Dotcom has come out explaining that he knows who was behind the shutdown of his company and related sites. Speaking to TorrentFreak, Dotcom has explained that he believes Vice President Joe Biden directed attorney Neil MacBride to target the site. When Megaupload was shut down in January, many questioned the speed and force with…

New Zealand Court Declares January Megaupload Seizures Illegal, a Coup for Kim DotCom

New Zealand’s National Business Review and TVNZ are reporting, says The Register, that the January seizures the the Coatesville mansion of Megaupload kingpin Kim DotCom were illegal and as such are therefor invalid in court. Judge Helen Winkelmann is reported to have said that the warrants did not adequately describe the offences to which they…

Steve Wozniak Slams US Government On Megaupload Case

Kim Dotcom may be the king of bad taste, but the Feds’ handling of his criminal case is pretty bad, according to Apple co-founder—and Gizmodo hero/friend—Steve Wozniak: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-worst-photos-of-megauploads-kim-dotcom-5877987 When crimes occur through the mail, you don’t shut the post office down. When governments dream up charges of ‘racketeering’ for a typical IT guy who is…

Whiny FBI Ordered to Copy 150 Terabytes of Data Seized From Megaupload Kingpin

A New Zealand court has ordered the FBI duplicate 150 terabytes of data seized from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s compound in January. That’s 6000 single-layer Blu-ray discs worth. The FBI whined that it’ll take two and a half months to copy, but the judge said tough nuggets. Fair is fair! This data is not the…