At the end of 2011, Kim Dotcom dropped the “Megaupload Song.”
The track, a blatant promotional piece for the file-sharing site, featured top artists such P Diddy, Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, and Kanye West.
This unprecedented advertisement came as a complete surprise to friends and foes. Not just because of the sheer star power, but also because Kim Dotcom himself wasn’t particluarly public at the time.
Locally, the New-Zealand entrepreneur enjoyed some fame, living the high life in a multi-million dollar mansion. And in gaming circles, he was a legend as well, albeit under his nickname MEGARACER. The public at large, however, hadn’t heard of him. That would soon change.
The Raid
On January 20, 2012, one day before his 38th birthday, police officers stormed his home in a military-style raid. Dozens of police swooped the estate in helicopters, including several members of New Zealand’s elite counter-terrorist force.
Dotcom’s bodyguard Wayne Tempero later recalled that the officers were armed with a*sault rifles and sidearms when they entered the premises just before 7 AM that morning. Tempero was in handcuffs soon after
Megaupload’s founder initially thought that the helicopter he heard could be guests arriving for his birthday party. However, when they knocked down the door, he realized that the situation was more threatening. There were certainly no gifts.
After hearing all the noise, Dotcom fled to a pre-arranged safe room in the house. He stayed in this “red room” reportedly with a shotgun by his side, until police arrived. That took a while, as the officers initially targeted another door, which actually led to a broken service elevator.
“I heard loud banging noises. I was just scared and worried. I thought I’d better wait for them to come to me rather than popping out and scaring someone who might shoot me,” Dotcom later said.
Mega Shock
While the raid was being carried out in New Zealand, law enforcement started to pull the plug on Megaupload as well. Hundreds of servers were taken offline and other Mega properties such as Megavideo disappeared as well.
These actions soon revealed the unprecedented scale at which the site was running. In the space of a day, millions of people were left without their favorite file storage and sharing platform, forced to find a new home.
This instantly boosted the traffic numbers of competitors such as Depositfiles, Uploaded.to, Hotfile, and Rapidshare with many others welcoming hundreds of thousands of extra visitors.
While this traffic was welcome, the criminal charges against Dotcom and his colleagues were seen as a major threat by these former competitors. In response, several sites canceled their payments to uploaders and Filesonic and Fileserve banned third-party downloads completely.
Needless to say, Hollywood saw Megaupload’s shutdown as a massive success. This was corroborated by an MPA-backed study that linked Megaupload’s demise to a boost in digital revenues. However, there’s is also research that suggests that some films were negatively impacted.
After that Rapidshare shutdown and so did just about every other major file sharing host at the time.
Some people were making decent bank from people downloading their uploads on those same hosts that got shook and shutdown after MegaUpload.
I got into it all too, and actually started one of the first mirror upload distribution sites that would let people securely login to multiple file hosts through my site, so that they could get credit for any downloads to make money and also the ability to have files hosted at over 20+ places with only having to upload once, even remotely. That meant dead download links were rare, it was convenient and ideal for uploaders that could make money, and just as convenient and ideal for people that wanted to download whatever too.
Other than that I had a blog where I posted albums, mixtapes, and a forum with over 3 million downloads and movie streams....I won't say what the sites were, but there were plenty of internet exclusive rips, leaks and all kinds of sh*t was a lot more readily available because of them.
Thing was, after all the major file hosts started shutting down after MegaUpload, all the sopa and pipa sh*t was going on and I was getting a ridiculous amount of dmca notices from record labels, software and movie companies. So I eventually said fu*k it, closed shop and shut all my sites and services down like all the major file hosts did at the time.
So MegaUpload shutting down caused a huge domino effect and pirating hasn't been the same since. It's all fu*ked up now. Yea, people that are aware how can still find what they're looking for usually, but it often involves obscure sites and file hosts that don't last that long.
Good days fam still have cds burnt from music off these sites, Rapidshare was my go to it was hella quick for my slow a*s computer. Anyways also wanted to say I bet them servers have dat song with Styles P when he said die in the plain like that Aaliyah bi*ch
Imagine Kim in this era of crypto. He would have cracked the industry - he claimed he could create a platform for free downloads that would get artists paid.
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