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The company's registered office was on the 12th floor of the Shanghai Industrial Investment Building in Room 1204 in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. [11] [12] [13]The company web services included Megaupload.com, a one-click hosting service; Megapix.com, an image hosting service; Megavideo.com and Megalive.com, video hosting services; and Megabox.com, a music hosting service.
A German-born programmer named Kim Dotcom founded Megaupload, which is a Hong Kong-based company established in 2005 for the use of file storage and file sharing. At its peak, Megaupload was the 13th most visited website on the Internet. Megaupload's sister sites include Megavideo.com, Megapix.com, Megalive.com, and Megabox.com.
The law firm Quinn Emanuel, retained by Megaupload to argue for the retention of Megaupload's data, claimed in a motion filed to the court that there was a concerted effort by the United States Department of Justice to deny Megaupload fair legal representation. In the brief, Quinn Emanuel alleged that several law firms had dropped out of the ...
Megaupload was once one of the most popular sites on the internet. U.S. prosecutors say it brought in at least $175 million, mostly from illegal downloads of music, television shows and movies.
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In February 2003, Dotcom set up Data Protect Limited, but changed the name to Megaupload in 2005. [21] He was the chief executive officer. [62] Megaupload was an online file hosting and sharing service in which users could share links to files for viewing or editing, much of it pirated. [63]
Megaupload Ltd., a Hong Kong Corporation, did not have a corporate office in the United States and therefore could never be served. The Judge has yet to make a final ruling on the motion to dismiss, leaving Megaupload in a state of limbo where all of its assets were frozen by the US and it is both not dismissed and not served. [citation needed]
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