Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular and now defunct file storage and viewing site Megaupload, is predicting he’ll be “the first tech billionaire who got indicted, lost everything and created another [sic] billion dollar tech company.”
Since July 5th, Dotcom has been tweeting that “Megaupload 2.0” is on its way. The website is set to formally relaunch on January 20th.
Megaupload is coming back.
Spread the word 🙂— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 6, 2016
According to Dotcom, the new version of the service will reinstate most former accounts of the original Megaupload platform and give them “Premium privileges.” The original service was shuttered on January 19th, 2012, when the U.S. Department of Justice seized the domain names, closed sites associated with Megaupload and arrested the founders, accusing the company of facilitating copyright piracy.
Dotcom has since fought extradition to the U.S. from New Zealand, and denies wrongdoing.
Some other features of the new platform have also been detailed in Dotcom’s string of tweets, including 100GB of storage per user, no data-transfer limits, “on-the-fly” encryption and the ability to synchronize all devices with the account. He’s also said that Megaupload 2.0 will involve Bitcoin.
I can tell you that Megaupload and Bitcoin had sex. There is a pregnancy and I have a feeling that the baby will be such a joy.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 10, 2016
This is not the first time Dotcom’s attempted a comeback. On January 19th, 2013, he started Mega, a cloud storage and hosting service, but resigned from its board of directors in 2013 and has since been openly critical of the service on social media. In recent tweets, he’s encouraged current Mega employees and former Megaupload employees to join his new company.
For those eager to get back on the platform, Dotcom says that followers tweeting “#Megaupload is coming back” will get beta access to the new site.
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