MegaUpload executives, including Kim Dotcom, who are facing extradition to the US, have begun appealing their case in the New Zealand Supreme Court. The appeals got under way today.
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Kim Dotcom, famous for MegaUpload, has opened a new service, named Bitcache, for 10,000 early users in order to test the service. It is still a work in progress and won't be open until next year.
Kim Dotcom will be appealing New Zealand's extradition ruling, which would send him back to the US to face trial for copyright infringement. But in a plot twist, the trial will be livestreamed.
The notorious internet mogul, Kim Dotcom, known for his file sharing companies, said that a new service will launch soon. He also hinted that the new service will come in January 2017.
Kim Dotcom, famous for creating MegaUpload and subsequently Mega, is warning users off of the service he launched. He seems to believe their data is no longer safe and the company might disappear.
This afternoon, in front of a packed gallery, a New Zealand judge ruled that Kim Dotcom could be legally extradited to the US in order to face charges of copyright infringement.
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Yet another file sharing website will soon be lost to history, and again for undisclosed reasons. The site is now displaying a message on its homepage asking users to backup their data, or lose it.
Andrus Nomm, a developer who claims to have worked with Megaupload prior to its shutdown has been arrested in the United States and could testify against Kim Dotcom in the ongoing legal battle.
Megaupload, shut down in January 2012, is getting back the data confiscated by the FBI at the time of said shut down. It's a small victory for both founder Kim Dotcom and the users that paid him.
Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, and others request stays on civil suits pursued by the music and movie industries to prevent their 5th amendment rights being violated in the ongoing criminal cases.
Mega founder Kim DotCom is planning to launch "Megaparty" in time for the New Zealand elections. The eccentric millionaire hopes to get the youth and internet users to be excited about voting.
Hotfile.com who have been in a legal battle with the MPAA since 2011, had reached a settlement with the organization which included certain conditions to continue operating has closed anyway.
A judge in New Zealand has ruled the evidence gathered in 2012 by law enforcement in the Megaupload raid can be accessed by its founder Kim Dotcom and his defense team.
Kim Dotcom, the founder of the Mega file-sharing service, posted word today that it now has over 3 million users a month after its official launch, along with over 125 million uploaded files.
The newly launched Mega file sharing website has pledged to offer new options that will allow users to change their passwords sometime in the future while defending its current security methods.
At the official launch party for his new Mega file-sharing service, Kim Dotcom announced that Mega already has over one million registered users one day after it opened to the general public.
Mega, the cloud-based file serving website, had server issues as it launched to the public earlier today as it had to handle a massive flood of registered users that currently total 250,000.
Some members of the press can now access Kim Dotcom's new Mega file sharing service, which includes the pricing for premium services and word on what features will be added in the next few months.
When Kim Dotcom's upcoming file sharing web service Mega launches on Sunday, it will offer up 50 GB of file storage space for free to its customers, but there's no word yet on premium services.
Kim Dotcom has posted up another screenshot of Mega's interface, which will have an accelerator for uploads and downloads of file for his upcoming cloud service.
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom will hold a press event for his next website, Mega, at the New Zealand mansion which was raided in January by law enforcement as part of the Megaupload shutdown.
MegaUpload creator Kim Dotcom has posted up some new screenshots of Mega, the successor to his now shut down file sharing website, on his public Twitter account.
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Kim Dotcom's extradition to the United States hearing could be pushed all the way back to July 2013, with the family's case reaching box-office proportions in terms of plot twists and turns.
Kim DotCom's new on-line service will have a New Zealand-based domain, the entrepreneur confirms. And it will work with the due respect of the local laws.
Megaupload's successor, Mega, isn't even out the door and is already running into problems. Months before launch it has lost its me.ga domain but owner, Kim Dotcom says a backup was already in place.
Even as Kim Dotcom prepares to launch a successor to his ill-fated Megaupload, he's working on other exciting projects, like building a fiber system for New Zealand - and it's free, at least to ISPs
Kim Dotcom might be gearing up to launch his new venture, but the EFF's fight for Megaupload users' data is far from over, and now the government is saying that they don't really own their cloud data.
Kim Dotcom has launched a preview site for 'Mega', the file sharing service that will rise from the ashes of MegaUpload, and which promises to "change the world" when it launches next year.
Kim Dotcom, the founder of the shut down file sharing website MegaUpload, revealed the first details of the site's successor, Mega, even though Dotcom is still facing online piracy charges.
For users who lost access to files at the time of Megaupload's shutdown, there may yet be some hope that they can retrieve their data from the petabytes of data still available to the server's hosts.
New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key, apologizes to MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom, after it was found that the country's government illegally spied on Dotcom's activities.
Kim Dotcom, the now-famous internet media mogul, has revealed further details on Megabox. Anyone interested will be disappointed to discover the supposedly revolutionary service is "coming soon".
Megaupload is coming back, and sooner than you think. Founder Kim Dotcom says that the new, decentralized and 'unstoppable' service is 90% coded, and servers are already being deployed.
The Motion Picture Association of America has deemed file-sharing hub Hotfile the "most blatant inducer of copyright infringement" during legal proceedings, beating even Megaupload and torrent sites.
Filesonic, previously one of the major file-sharing websites on the internet, has been gone for the past few days with no explanation, and the main domain having suddenly changed hands.
Kim Dotcom is to receive up to $6,000,000 from the New Zealand government to aid his legal battle for the future. This money will be secured from $10,000,000 in bonds that were frozen back in April.
Kim Dotcom has shared some of his extremely ambitious plans with the internet via his Twitter account, indicating that he isn't going to give up on his goals for the future.
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