A brief history of Megaupload and its controversial founder Kim Dotcom. Find out how a teenage hacker built one of the largest websites in the world, which was eventually seized by the FBI for piracy. 

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Megaupload was amazing, by that time it was by fat the best option to host pirated content. The nicest part was that you could even stream videos you uploaded to the platform, making it possible to either download or just a stream a movie. That was uncommon by that time.
I used to manage a piracy forum online and we relied primarily on Megaupload and Rapidshare. When Megaupload went down it was shock.

Now that paying for legitimate streaming platforms can also mean forfeiting your legal rights, piracy might seem like the more reasonable choice.

Chad enabled me to watch all the weeb anime when I was 15 with MU.

Daily.dev needs a way to mark some posts as “not evergreen”. This just popped up in my feed THIS MORNING. Kinda stale by now.