Sunday, 4 November 2012
Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, and possibly the most hunted man on the internet, has revealed plans for the successor to his wildly popular file sharing service. Before it was shut down in January, 2012, Megaupload was one of the largest file storage and viewing services in the world, averaging about 50 million hits per day. With over 25 petabytes (25,000 terabytes) of data stored on its servers, the portal was widely known and used, and its shutting down led to great outrage in the online sphere, with many severe responses from the file sharing community, including denial-of-service attacks on a range of websites belonging to the U.S. government and copyright organizations.
Now, the latest offering from Dotcom and his co-workers seems to be filling the gap left by Megaupload’s shattering.
While the new site boasts faster upload speeds and larger storage
capacity, the encryption technology marks a major shift from Megaupload
as Mega operators and owners will not have access to user files and
therefore be immune from content liability.
U.S. authorities have released no
official comment yet on the planned venture. The announcement was
delayed by an hour on account of overloading by users on data. In a tweet,
Dotcom suggested that a lot of the traffic was driven by U.S.
authorities: “FBI agents pressing reload... We see their IP addresses.”
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