Many analysts had predicted that the Chinese portals, which had to separate their mainland content from the rest of their business in order to get Beijing's permission to list, would bomb in the new dotcom-unfriendly environment.
The Mega business plan has been vetted by more than 20 lawyers across the US and New Zealand, Dotcom says including those at Rothken's firm, and New Zealand law firms Simpson Grierson (one of the largest corporate law firms in NZ) and Lowndes Jordan (an intellectual property specialist).
While Megaupload was based in Hong Kong, Mr. Dotcom lived in New Zealand.
The dotcom bubble brought forth new firms that hoped to build the infrastructure and capacity to support the internet.
Mr. Dotcom later started a new life in Hong Kong, where he was the mastermind behind Megaupload, among other businesses.
Dotcom says that the new Mega will be an attractive product for anyone concerned about the state of online security.
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The US Government managed to get the plug pulled on the system and are trying to extradite Dotcom and his associates from New Zealand to stand trial.
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Four men, including Megaupload Ltd. founder Kim Dotcom, were arrested in New Zealand on charges including conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal copyright infringement.
Kim Dotcom was refused bail in New Zealand following his arrest at the request of the FBI for allegedly profiting from online piracy through Megaupload, the internet's biggest file-sharing website, which was founded by Mr Dotcom.
Mr Dotcom was arrested in January in New Zealand because, alleged the FBI, his site was being used for piracy.
The case prompted an apology from Prime Minister John Key to Mr Dotcom - a German national with New Zealand residency - last year.
Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom has announced his plans to launch a new website, despite still being under arrest.
But when Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested in January at his lavish New Zealand estate, he went from unknown entrepreneur to a flamboyantly rich cult hero.
SingTel just announced that he had reached a "non-binding conditional agreement" to take 14.5% of Time Engineering, 20% of Time dotCom and 20% of Time's new Internet Service Provider, Time Online.
As well as Mr. Dotcom, prosecutors are seeking the extradition from New Zealand of Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk, each of whom held senior positions at Megaupload before authorities shut it down in January.
Certainly, regulators are scrutinising their track-record during the recent dotcom mania, when the price of so many new issues fell steeply within days.
The New Zealand prime minister has issued an apology to Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom.
In my second post about the new MEGA encrypted file service I discussed the chess game that Kim Dotcom was playing with the policers of copyright.
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He said sorry because a New Zealand law enforcement agency was judged to have illegally spied on Mr Dotcom.
New vineyards were planted to cash in, a trend that accelerated as dotcom millionaires from nearby Silicon Valley began to invest in vanity vineyards.
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Dotcom was denied bail on Wednesday, forced to stay in a New Zealand prison while awaiting an extradition hearing.
He particularly respects Robert Rodriguez, manager of the FPA New Income Fund, in Los Angeles, who took heat for calling the dotcom and housing bubbles before they popped.
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Dotcom said Mega was a different beast to Megaupload, as the new site enables users to control exactly which users can access uploaded files, in contrast to its predecessor, which allowed users to search files, some of which contained copyrighted content allegedly without permission.
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There followed the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, which promised to make silicon the new gold in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He tells how Sohu.com "caught the last train" to list on New York's Nasdaq technology stocks index in July 2000, just as the dotcom boom came crashing down, but survived to turn its first profit in the third quarter of 2002.
The New Zealand attorney general had asked the appeals court to exclude the GCSB from Mr Dotcom's lawsuit seeking compensation, after the high court ruled last year that the agency could be held liable for illegally spying, but the court rejected the bid.
And they have charged Dotcom with criminal copyright infringement and are seeking his extradition from his home in New Zealand.
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Mr Dotcom has rebuffed the accusations and is fighting a legal battle to stay in New Zealand from where he ran Megaupload.
Despite this trend Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, has recently said he intends to create a new service despite the US's continued efforts to extradite him and his former co-workers from New Zealand.
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