While cable cord cutters are bemoaning the loss of Megaupload, supporters have been trying to resurrect it on various servers around the world. The U.S. Department of Justice accused the site of promoting piracy by allowing users to anonymously share files and seized it, but ABC News reports, "Megaupload is now on a server that has no domain name but has the address http://109.236.83.66. According to the website www.urlquery.net, the Megaupload's new server is based in the Netherlands. Overnight supporters for the site hosted the remnants of Megaupload at www.Megavideo.bz indicating that content was being hosted in Belize." Also, did you realize that when New Zealand cops went to arrest Megaupload's founder, he was discovered in Dotcom Mansion's safe room?
A New Zealand police detective, Grand Wormald, told the Wall Street Journal that they were contacted by the FBI last year about persons of interest, including founder Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor:
"They've got pretty sophisticated security on the property, two of the three gates have gate posts with manned security guards in there so you don't get in without speaking to someone. Then the house itself had security cameras around the perimeter and then there were security measures around the house which we had to deal with as well. When we first entered the property Mr. Dotcom was not overly co-operative and in fact fled into what can best be described as a safe house, or a safe room and it took us some time to get through the security measures that were in place and he was subsequently found in that safe room with a loaded shot gun resembling a sawn off shotgun."
The cops had to cut their way through the safe room.
The federal authorities are planning to use internal Megaupload correspondence to show that the employees were "operating in bad faith." In other Megaupload news, Swizz Beatz was never the CEO—he was only in "talks" to be the CEO.
