Kim Dotcom has lost the latest legal battle with the U.S. in a New Zealand Court of Appeal, but he won’t be coming to the U.S. just yet. The U.S. has been trying to extradite Dotcom on allegations of enabling users of MegaUpload to store pirated music, movies and other media. He tried to force the U.S. to turn over its evidence against him before his extradition, but the New Zealand Court of Appeal...
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Kim Dotcom is offering a bounty of €10,000 (approx. US$13,580) to the first person who breaks its newly launched file storage service. The New Zealand-based German’s new security system is installed at Mega. After being criticized for the inept handling of security, Kim Dotcom announced a prize to the hackers last week. Negating the points raised by Ars Technica and Forbes, a blog post from Mega said the site will be restored with new updates to boost the...
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega, the cloud storage service launched two weeks ago, could be facing its first big hurdle in relation to a recent “collaborative” search engine Mega-Search.me by some intrepid developers that allowed Mega’s 1 million users to share files they’ve uploaded to their own personal cloud lockers. Mega-Search.me is a crowdsourced service that allows anyone to add links to their own files on Mega. Although, the new search engine cannot index the files Mega’s...
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Megaupload founder, Kim Dotcom, claims half a million users have already signed up to the new-file sharing service ‘Mega’, which was launched 14 hours ago. Facing trouble in handling the massive demand, Dotcom commented on Twitter about the “unbelievable demand” of the new file sharing service that, according to Mr. Dotcom, received huge publicity after the Sunday launch party. Doctom tweeted : If I would tell you how many signups we had since the launch you wouldn’t...
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