Kim Dotcom to launch new Megaupload

[dlevere]

Kim Dotcom, the founder of famous file-sharing site Megaupload, has announced plans to start-up a similar website and music service before the end of the year.

Dotcom is facing racketeering charges in the United states and is currently fighting extradition.

[dlevere]

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 20, 7:56 P.M.

Kim Dotcom's new "Mega" cloud service appears to be a hit. According to Dotcom over 1 million have signed up for their free 50 gigabytes of storage. Although that is about 1% of the Dropbox user base, it's not a bad start.

From the article:

"Mega quickly jumped up to around 100,000 users within an hour or so of the site's official launch. A few hours after that, Mega had ballooned up to approximately a quarter of a million users. Demand was great enough to knock Mega offline for a number of users attempting to either connect up or sign up for new accounts, and Mega's availability remains spotty as of this articles' writing."