With bombast and flair, Megaupload's successor appears

01.11.2012

The splash page says "We promise, We deliver. Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer. Mega," and has a form for people to submit their email addresses for more information.

He also wrote that he detected IP addresses belonging to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, one of the agencies that had a hand in shutting down Megaupload on Jan. 19.

Dotcom along with Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram Van Der Kolk are living outside Auckland at Dotcom's mansion in Coatesville. They're fighting the indictment in part on an argument that the U.S. never served the company properly since its headquarters were located in Hong Kong.

The case has hit many snags, with a New Zealand court finding that executed at Dotcom's property were too broad, and that evidence seized there was copied and sent to the U.S. .

Also, New Zealand's government one of its intelligence agencies illegally spied on Dotcom. While Dotcom holds German and Finnish passports, he is a permanent resident of New Zealand, which would have made that type of surveillance illegal.