The launch of a new service, set for Jan. 20, could be a risky endeavor for Dotcom, who along with six others were indicted by a grand jury on criminal copyright infringement charges in U.S. federal court in January and face possible extradition from New Zealand.

He has revealed few details of the service, but in an interview last month in , said that Mega will only store files that have been encrypted by the service's users. Only those users would have the power to share the key to unlock the content.

In theory, the encryption scheme would give Mega's operators plausible denial that it has knowledge about what users are uploading to the network, acting as a buffer against legal action of the type Megaupload faces now.

On the splash page, Mega is described as a cloud-based storage system that allows users to share their folders. Mega claims it will be faster than Megaupload, which had its storage systems located in "expensive premium data centers."