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| website = (mega.nz ) | alexa = 422 ()〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mega.co.nz Site Info )〕 | operating system = Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire }} Mega (stylized in uppercase as MEGA) is a cloud storage and file hosting service produced by Mega Limited. The New Zealand-based website was launched on 19 January 2013 by Kim Dotcom. Mega mobile apps are available for Windows Phone, Android, BlackBerry OS and iOS. Mega most notably advertises its feature that all files are encrypted locally before they are uploaded〔https://mega.co.nz/#help/security〕 and 50 GB of storage space are available for free〔 and up to 4 TB for paid accounts.〔 As of November 2014, according to Dotcom, Mega has 15 million registered users, and utilizes 350 gigabits of bandwidth per second on average. == History == Kim Dotcom's first file-hosting site Megaupload was seized and shut down on 19 January 2012 by the United States Department of Justice, which began criminal cases against its owners. After Gabon denied the new company domain name me.ga, Kim Dotcom announced it would instead be registered in his country of residence, New Zealand, under the domain name mega.co.nz. Mega launched on 19 January 2013 - a year after Dotcom's original site was shut down. Kim Dotcom reported on Twitter getting over 100,000 registered within the first hour, speculating that this may make Mega the fastest-growing startup in history. Kim Dotcom also reported on Twitter, that the site was extremely busy, and received thousands of user registrations per minute at the time of the tweet. Kim later reported Mega having more than 1 million registered users, and 60 uploads completed every second. Three days later that number was updated to 500 uploads completed every second. To promote his new website, Kim Dotcom hired ice cream chef Gianpaolo Grazioli to create a mega flavour in an extravaganza for his followers. On 7 February 2013, it was announced that the former Chief Executive of InternetNZ, Vikram Kumar, would step in as the new CEO of Mega. Lentino would instead maintain a seat as a director with Mega, and continue to provide his entrepreneurial spirit and skills to the enterprise, he said.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mega Limited appoints new CEO )〕 Early users of the site experienced various issues, including slow-to-nonexistent upload speeds and problems logging in. The service improved slightly over the next three days, but remained insufficient for large volumes of uploads. Others said there appeared to be no way to close an account in case it got compromised. Technology commentators blamed the poor performance on the site's popularity, noting it was ranked in the top 150 websites in the world in the first few days of its existence, subsequently dropping a few thousand places. On 4 July 2013 the Mega Android application was released on the Google Play marketplace.〔https://mega.co.nz/#blog_15〕 Four days later, on 8 July 2013 the Mega software development kit (SDK) and affiliate program was released. On 4 September 2013, Kim Dotcom stepped down as Director of Mega. In a later interview with the Washington Post on 7 September, Kim Dotcom announced Mega was getting 20,000 signups for the service every day.〔(Kim Dotcom is still wanted by the FBI. But that isn’t slowing him down ). Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved on 2013-11-27.〕 Mega is currently hosting more than 500 million files,〔https://twitter.com/MEGAprivacy/status/405884032501567488〕 and 3 million more are added every day. Furthermore, Mega receives about 100 DMCA takedowns per day.〔(Keynote at OSDC 2013 | Internet Ganesha ). Internetganesha.wordpress.com (2013-11-07). Retrieved on 2013-11-27.〕 On 26 November 2013 the official Mega iOS application was released on the App Store marketplace.〔https://mega.co.nz/#blog_23〕 On 20 January 2014 the official Mega Sync application was released for Windows〔https://mega.co.nz/#blog_24〕 and on 6 September 2014 the official Mega Sync application was released for Linux.〔https://mega.co.nz/#blog_29〕 In March 2014, Dotcom announced his intentions to list Mega on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.〔(Kim Dotcom's Mega to list on NZ stock market ). BBC. 25 March 2014.〕 In September, a report published from the Digital Citizens Alliance - commissioned via brand protection organisation NetNames - characterising Mega as a 'shadowy cyberlocker' was branded 'grossly untrue and highly defamatory' by Mega's CEO. In July 2015, Dotcom said he doesn't trust Mega service in a Q&A session with tech website Slashdot, claims New Zealand government has control of the site. Dotcom encouraged readers not to use it and plans to release a detailed breakdown of Mega's status, he said in Twitter.〔(Kim Dotcom: ‘I don’t think your data is safe on Mega anymore ). The Next Web. 31 July 2015.〕〔(Kim Dotcom promises to launch an open-source competitor to Mega ). Engage. 31 July 2015.〕 Mega responded that the authorities have not opposed or interefered with any of Mega’s operations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mega (service)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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