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Dotcom has only circulated two videosВ in YouTubeВ and from these we can see that it is going to be a music sharing system with many digital community/social networking elements (this is 2012 after all), a lot of content management tools and a very intuitive user environment. The exact function of Megabox is not yet well known Mr. Dotcom is not in the same league with the creators of Napster: he is already a millionaire, he has given much thought to cultivating his public image focusing on the political and financial aspect of his problem with the law in the Megaupload case (this is particularly obvious in his personal web siteВ and his new endeavor hope to bring artists to his side and not against him even though details havenвЂ™t been known, rumor has it that his new project, Megabox, will allow artists to freely distribute their music and take 90% of the revenue. Still, it seems that an incarnation of their idea is about to hit the Internet airwaves, this time created by another famous Internet figure: Kim Dotcom, creator of Megaupload file sharing system and a person who for the last year has been center of attention, especially because of the shutting down of his network by FBI. That it was, in essence, illegal makes little difference to the fact that since the opening of the particular PandoraвЂ™s Box, music industry has been trying to face its consequences usually not in a very successful way.ДЄs was to be expected, Napster only lasted a couple of years having against it opponents the size of Metallica and the record companies that go with them, the three young Americans who created it didnвЂ™t have much chance of survival and today their names are only remembered by the insiders of the American Internet market. But it was the service that made it famous, together with the idea of вЂњmusic sharingвЂќ, that is the exchange of music files over the Internet. Napster didnвЂ™t invent the MP3 format this honor goes to two researchers from the legendary AT&T-Bell Labs. Dotcom has entertained himself by making music videos with his family, as well as hosting visits from people including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.Once again, I will into dive the depths of online history, this time to dig up Napster, a program (and service) which even though younger users probably havenвЂ™t even heard of (Internet history is unforgivingly fast and the thirteen years that stand between now and 1999 when Napster was around equal many decades in the real world), was the pioneer for the millions of music collections hosted in computers, media players and cellular phones all over the world. The New Zealand government was forced to apologise to the entrepreneur today after an official report showed that the country's spy agency had carried out illegal surveillance on him.Д«ut house arrest has not deterred the industrious German national, who officially changed his name from Kim Schmitz in 2005. Now released on bail, Dotcom faces fresh attempts by the US authorities to extradite him but will not face an extradition hearing until March 2013.Дotcom's arrest and the closure of by the US Department of Justice triggered attacks on several high profile sites including the DoJ and Universal Music. Dotcom has been charged with internet piracy and breaking copyright laws with a business that made as much as $175m (ВЈ100m) allegedly distributing copyrighted material. Megabox appears to be a reinvention of the infamous MegaUpload site that led to Dotcom's dramatic arrest on 20 January this year.

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The site is understood to let users access music for free and compensate artists with a share of advertising revenue by using the Megakey app, which would replace existing ads with Megabox adverts.

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Today's teaser highlighted four artists вЂ“ The Black Keys, Rusko, Two Fingers and will.i.am вЂ“ as 'exclusive' artists that are part of a site that Dotcom has said will 'give artists full control over their work'. The video followed a tweet on Saturday that claimed: 'Code was 90% done. New Zealand tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is preparing to launch a new music site called Megabox, he has claimed.ДЄ video teaser, posted on YouTube on Wednesday, showed off search, community, location and sentiment tracking features, and showed a developer team apparently working on the site with the introduction: 'This is what they don't want you to have.