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  1. www.cloudwards.net › what-is-megauploadWhat Is Megaupload? Kim Dotcom’s File-Sharing Website in 2024

    Feb 20, 2024 · The website was founded in 2005, with its headquarters located in Hong Kong. Throughout its seven years of existence, more than 175 million people registered an account, and the site received over ...

  2. www.seattletimes.com › business › popular-filePopular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down | The ...

    Jan 19, 2012 · Dotcom, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand, and a dual citizen of Finland and Germany, made more than $42 million from the site in 2010 alone, according to the indictment. Dotcom had his ...

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  4. arstechnica.com › tech-policy › 2012Explainer: How can the US seize a "Hong Kong site" like ...

    Jan 20, 2012 · Megaupload wasn't just some Hong Kong enterprise that "happened" to be used by US residents. The site had leased more than 1,000 servers in North America alone; 525 were at Carpathia Hosting and ...

  5. www.networkworld.com › article › 690372Megaupload seeks return of millions in frozen Hong Kong ...

    Apr 24, 2014 · The company’s assets were frozen by Hong Kong at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice around January 2012 after its operators, including founder Kim Dotcom, were indicted by U.S ...

    • Jeremy Kirk

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MegauploadMegaupload - Wikipedia

    Website. megaupload.com (archived) Footnotes / references. [1] [2] Megaupload Ltd was a Hong Kong –based online company established in 2005 that operated from 2005 to 2012 providing online services related to file storage and viewing.

    • 21 March 2005
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  8. www.bbc.com › news › world-us-canada-16657800Profile: Megaupload file-sharing site - BBC News

    Jan 20, 2012 · Boasting some 150 million registered users, Megaupload was one of the biggest file-sharing services in the world before it was shut down this week. At one point it was estimated to be the 13th ...

  9. www.reddit.com › r › lawHow can the US go into Hong Kong and shut down Megaupload?

    The recent news of the DOJ shutting down a site in Hong Kong has me scratching my head. I looked for a bit and found a few articles talking about the…