Kim Dotcom Launches Another File Storage Site Named Mega

By: Talha Bhatti  |   January 21st, 2013   |   Business, News

Notorious tech entrepreneur, Kim Dotcom, has just launched new secure file-storage and file-sharing platform called Mega. The entrepreneur made an interesting move by launching his new venture on January 20 at 6:48 a.m. New Zealand time. This is the exact one-year anniversary of a widely reported raid by authorities on Dotcom’s house in New Zealand. The action was taken after U.S. shutdowns the entrepreneurs  previous file-sharing and file-storage site Megaupload. Dotcom was accused of many counts of copyright violations and was taken to court.

 

Kim Dotcom tweeted at launch, “As of this minute one year ago #Megaupload was destroyed by the US Government. Welcome to Mega.co.nz.” Almost immediatley after that he sent anoter tweet stating that, “Wow. I have never seen anything like this. From 0 to 10 Gigabit bandwidth utilization within 10 minutes.” Dotcom went on to further claim that the thousands of people were signing-up per minute after the news of the launch went public.

Mega is allowing anyone to sign up tot he site and gives users 50GB storage space as part of their free basic service. Paying customers have three tiers to choose from which allow them more storage space and bandwidth.  Partners like Instra, EuroDNS and Digiweb are reselling the service to users in partnership with Mega.

Dotcom new site has an interesting quirk that had some wondering if it would survive the launch. The site times out unless a users uses a secure link by using the “https” prefix for the domain. It did not seem to be an issue and the site has easily handled the traffic. Mega, which is run by Mega Ltd. has big plans for the future. The company will be jumping into the streaming music sector with Megabox in a few months. There is a planned launch event for Mega and more details are expected about the project then.

Source: Tech Crunch