Kim Dotcom Teases Megabox, Reveals Exclusive Artists?

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September 26, 2012
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Kim Dotcom is determined to put the major music labels out of business with Megabox. At the same time he promises to give artists full control over their own work and a healthy revenue stream. Today Dotcom released a video on the making of Megabox which unveils some of the service’s features. The video also shows “The Black Keys,” “Rusko,” “Two Fingers” and “Will.i.am” as exclusive artists.

December last year Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom revealed his plan to put the “dinosaur record labels” out of business.

Not through piracy, but with the release of a revolutionary music platform called Megabox.

A month later, however, the Megabox domain was seized as part of the criminal case against Megaupload. While many thought this was the end of Dotcom’s ambitious plans, the Megaupload founder announced a few months later that Megabox is not dead yet.

On the contrary, Dotcom told TorrentFreak that some of the world’s top artists have already signed up.

In recent months Dotcom has been working with a team of developers to get Megabox ready for a highly anticipated launch later this year. Today, Megaupload’s founder gave us a look behind the scenes of Megabox and revealed some rather interesting details.

Megabox is coming

Aside from providing a sneak peek at some of the Megabox features, the video also shows a few frames where it lists “Megabox exclusive artists.” The four artists that are displayed in this section are “The Black Keys,” “Rusko,” “Two Fingers” and “Will.i.am.”

While we can’t be sure that these are indeed artists that have partnered with Dotcom and Megabox, the choice to include these names seems far from random. Will.i.am previously worked on Megaupload’s Mega Song for example, and the other three artists are not really the most logical choice for dummy data.

TorrentFreak asked Kim Dotcom whether the exclusive artists in the video are indeed launch partners, but Dotcom said that he can’t share this information just yet. We’ll have to wait a few more weeks for official confirmation.

So why would artists join Megabox in the first place?

The goal of Megabox is to give the public access to free music and compensate artists through advertising revenue. Megaupload’s founder believes that this “free music” business model has the potential to decrease music piracy while giving artists proper compensation for their work.

This revenue comes from the Megakey application that users have to install. Megakey works like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads it replaces a small percentage with Mega’s own ads. Those who prefer not to install the app have the option to buy the music instead.

“Music will be free for users who install the Megakey App. Anyone who does not like the App can just purchase the music,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak previously.

Most of the revenue generated will go directly to the artists with Megabox keeping a small share. This fraction pales in comparison to the amounts held back by the major labels.

“These new solutions will allow content creators to keep 90% of all earnings and generate significant income from the untapped market of free downloads,” Dotcom said.

In the weeks to come Kim Dotcom and his team are hoping to get Megabox ready for a public release, with or without “The Black Keys,” “Rusko,” “Two Fingers” and “Will.i.am” as exclusive artists.

In addition, Megaupload is also expected to return before the end of 2012.

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Shiny Jirachi

I still think this is probably one of the best business models.
- Anon
  
  I think it’s one of the worst business model.
  Don’t get me wrong, I like the fact that he tries to find alternative way to make a business.
  What I don’t like is the fact that it hijack adverts preventing any other businesses from earning money.
  Not only that but only one company can have this working at a time. Once other companies starts to do a similar ads replacement tool, they will try to hijack each other and possibly causing problem by doing so.
  - Guest
    
    So what?
    
    Am I supposed to care if the assholes who plaster the internet with ads fight eachother?
    
    I’ll actually be happy if Megakey makes them lose some money.
    - benbristow
      
      Someone’s bound to make a userscript/chrome extension/firefox addon to fake the install of ‘Megakey’.
    - Janny
      
      That’s it! Have the attitude of pirates.
      
      Unlike digital piracy, ad replacement can be proven to have lose in potential $$$. I’d even go as far as saying it’s “stealing ad revenue”. Instead of downloading for free he wants you to view websites for free (by free I mean not getting paid with ad revenue).
      
      –
      
      Example;-
      
      For the users;
      Great, free music! I don’t mind the ad replacement.
      
      For the webmasters;
      How am I going to pay for this months server bill?
      
      –
      
      The real question is, what percent of people in 2 years time will be using Megakey rather than viewing the websites real ads?
      
      Adblock is 5%-ish but Megakey is hoping to be a mainstream product resulting in a larger percent one day.
    - Anon
      
      I run unobtrusive ads on my iPhone apps just to break even, not to be an asshole. People who adblock and people who hijack ads are the real assholes.
    - http://profiles.google.com/orfetheo Orfeas Theofanis
      
      @f50f6c38bbe8c538355709234f7b6a8c:disqus
      I use adblock not because I’m an asshole, but because I don’t like popup/popunder ads and people who create and use those are the real assholes.
      I don’t mind seeing ads on a website, if anything it’s a good thing, otherwise you would have to pay for the services.
      
      But popup ads are the worst thing to happen when browsing.
      Especially in TPB, where some time ago they put an ad in every click… You have to close 3 windows to download anything, so no thanks, I’ll keep my adblock.
    - http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
      
      The Internet is far better under a hobbyist model instead of this new monetization crap. Want money? Get a job. I don’t pay you and you don’t pay me. I have always released my programs and apps for free since 1989, starting with my FTP and fserve. Commercialization of the Internet is one of the biggest loads of crap that ever happened and filled it with nothing but whiny newbies.
      
      We all know people with hobbies who do things like work on their cars, boats, wood shop…whatever. Not very many of them bring in more than they invest into that.
    - No bigims NO bigim
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus
      
      No need to Bigim your Bigim, you Bigim
    - http://www.rollingstone.com/ Rolling Stone Magazine
      
      Megabox is gonna shit so much and so fucking hard on Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and the newly merged Universal-EMI, that these 3 mother fucking music labels will file for Chapter 11 within 3 years of the launch of Megabox. God willing.
      
      The big three music labels are going to get their arse stretched so wide by Megabox, in readiness for a MegaGangRape by Kim Dotcom’s unique approach to the distribution of media, that their arses will bleed with eternal pain.
      
      These big three music labels (formerly big four music labels) have had their heads stuck up each others arses for well over a decade now, so much so that they enjoy each others brown acrid, pungent stink. They still persist to ignore the root cause of piracy and they are finally going to have their heads severed from their gay arses, until they bleed to death.
      
      We shall witness a spectacular fall from grace by these big three bastardized entities, and in a few years time when they go into administration, Megabox will be King, fair and honest in its dealings with artists and performers.
      
      To the big three music labels, your days are numbered.
      
      A Mega fuck you hairy asshole bastard flies out to Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal-EMI.
    - Guest321
      
      @997c67b386aaf521ca49a5b000cadfc8:disqus I will always use adblock because nobody likes ads and popups. Find some other way to monetize your apps or GTFO asshole. We don’t owe you a living.
    - GUESTA
      
      Blocking ads on internet it’s like not watching commercials on TV.
  - Banana
    
    It is is not mandatory, tou will the one buying the songs instead of replacing crap ads.
    - yello
      
      well, ive survived up till today downloading from other sources, why am i suddenly going to change to megabox?
  - puddpuddi
    
    I use adblock, do you hate me too?
    - Willie
      
      Yeah, amen to that!
  - lol wot ?
    
    Adblock plus
    
    I also skip through ads on TV
    
    U MAD ?
  - Judge
    
    This corporate paid trolling is really getting old like their business.
    - AntiCorporateProp
      
      By the way there is no need to post fake shit again with using other names such a Janny to try to make people believe that there is plenty of yourself. And Stop voting for yourself because we got this too idiot!
    - Janny
      
      Haha, AntiCorporateProp, I’m currently laughing at your ignorance. Judge is yet another person on torrentfreak who labels people as a troll. And how blind you are to believe it’s someone renaming themselves to put a point across >_<. You're blinded by what you want to think… but infact, if you look at previous articles you'll see that whenever someone has a different opinion they always get masses of people saying "paid troll" "MAFIAA troll" etc.
    - Steven
      
      Small webmasters are who are hurt the most by Megakey.. lucky to ever break even and you fail to realize the world isn’t full of “real life jobs” so the internet is only how some people can make an income. Stop being an asshole and realize not everyone works for a big company on the internet and Megakey is killing exactly who they are targeting.. the little guys
  - Gubatron
    
    exactly, imagine all the sites that are going to be suing his ass for hijacking ads on all the traffic he steals.
    - Zzzzzz
      
      By the amount of paid for outrage every time Megabox is mentioned it’s obvious the music industry is shitting bricks.
      These assholes had every chance to change their business models so they only have themselves to blame now someone has come along and done it instead.
  - Gma
    
    I am glad that I am not the sort of guy that got addicted to music or movie (hey life goes on with and without it so don’t tell me that you can’t do neither). But I am an angry guy because of these copyright troll got everything content censored on the net. I always grateful to the fact that Kim Dotcom always not on our side fighting for internet freedom but haven said so I am not happy either with the fact that he is hijacking other people revenue with his new Megabox thingy. Life had never been easier for small webmaster with most of us using ad-blocker nowadays and now here come another problem. Yes, I mean Megabox is not a great idea.
  - Shanesome1988
    
    This is what leads to further innovative competitiveness. This is not a bad business model. It will free musicians and give them a way to make money that hasn’t really been available since the napster days. Online access to music has ruined the record industry. This is just evolution of the music industry.
  - Pariah
    
    None of the advertisers now are being guaranteed space on my screen. They paid a relative pittance to send out massive spam ads. So some of them get screened. Technically, it will be using anti popup/banner add software that I INSTALLED on my computer. No other advertiser will have that power, not without me installing another app on my computer. And personally, that won’t happen. So I get free downloads for installing one app, that at least makes my add experience more controlled. Meanwhile, anybody whining that I am screening their adds is in the exact same boat they were when I installed the previous addblocker software. They gambled on people watching their digital diarrhea, they get to live with the consequences.
- Monster
  
  I think it’s great but people need to understand that most artists are already under contract with labels for a total of 3-8 albums and will not be able to use megabox unless they want to get their asses sued off. I thnk what we’ll see is going to be a place for underground artists and indie record labels to garner a bigger fan base.
  - Anyone
    
    not all artists are that bound to the labels
    and there are ways around that bondage, for example Prince simply renamed himself for that reason ;)
    - Monster
      
      you think that since that has happened the record labels haven’t covered their asses there too? Like I said I’m for this megabox shit but I honestly don’t see it playing out the way everybody is expecting it to. I hope I’m wrong. :)
    - Janny
      
      What pirates/TF users aren’t taking into consideration is that artists NEED labels unless they have skills in marketing themselves and have lots of money for investment. Being a 1 man artist would be very difficult to organise tours, merch, social media, marketing, music video production etc.
    - Anyone
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus
      none of what you listed is done by the labels themselves, but by other specialized companies
      artists are free to hire those as well, and don’t end up losing 90% of their revenue to useless middlemen
    - ANo
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus
      Utter bullshit.
      
      “”artists NEED lots of money for investment from labels “”
      Implying lot’s of money is required.
      Implying the labels invest for artists and not profit.
      Implying NEED.
      
      as for…..
      “”organise tours, merch, social media, marketing, music video production etc.”"
      Called MANAGEMENT, same applies for marketing.
      
      Labels need artists to EXPLOIT.
      They give, up front payments…. to put people in debt to them.
      Tie them up on contracts.
      Use them for only ONE purpose, money.
      Thousands of people are in debt to labels BTW.
      
      Why should artists have to be slaves for the labels ?
      Heaven forbid you BUILD a business and career from the ground up.
      Get financial investment based on proven business, from a bank. (like everyone)
      
      Artists Need Labels ( today with the interwebby thingy and cheep Tech )
      
      I call …… Utter BULLSHIT
    - Janny
      
      ANo, please, give me a plan which you think would actually get an artist a sum of money to live from without using a label…
      
      Most artists want to make music and get paid from it but barely any of them have any skills in marketing to get them an audience. Can you name ONE band or artist which is Unsigned to a label which has a big fanbase or any sign of them making a lot of money? … Don’t dare say “Dan Bull”, he is only popular because he used his pro-piracy songs to go viral. Even the bands I listen to in Metal all have labels, they are required unless you want to have only 300-max streams on your songs.
      
      Anyone,
      >none of what you listed is done by the labels themselves, but by other specialized companies
      Labels sort it all out for them and have the money to put in to promote them.
      > losing 90% of their revenue
      Where did you get this “90%” crap from. Not all labels take 90% of the revenue. Stop being so ignorant to believe all labels are evil money grabbing whores. As I asked ANo, name a single artists (other than Dan Bull) that managed to get famous as an Unsigned artist. None? Thought so.
      
      Both of you should frequently check up on http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/ which has artists there and I’ve never heard anyone there say how easy it is to make money as an Unsigned artist. The music industry is very very very hard unless you have a label backing you (then it just gets only a tiny bit less-hard).
    - Plop
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus ”As I asked ANo, name a single artists (other than Dan Bull) that managed to get famous as an Unsigned artist. None? Thought so.”
      How about The Arctic Monkeys. They got famous and built a MASSIVE following simply through MySpace. It was only once they’d built that fanbase that the labels took any notice, because before that they were looked upon as ‘unmarketable’. As ANo said, management can easily take care of all the things you mention (I know from personal experience that this is true) – that’s their job.
    - ANo
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus
      
      Get real…. How many employees of record labels are actually artists ?
      The majority of musicians are session, paid by the session, no royalties etc…
      The others are technicians etc… and in other fields like marketing and management. ( 1 in 20 ? )
      Of course Labels can help in certain cases, especially with cash advances, but they are an employer with only one aim, to make money. Their aim is not to make artists money. The advances are there for a reason.
      BTW…Cash advances hurt artists more than they help, MOST of the time.
      
      …..here is a common story…..
      
      A band uses label to create album.
      Gets cash advance as part of a one album deal.
      They don’t have a choice in how much it costs to make the album.
      Label uses EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE studio services, management services, marketing services, etc…
      TODAY it is highly debatable if they needed to use ANY of those services at all.
      
      THE END RESULT ( for the band )
      An album that cost a lot more money to make, than if they sourced the work themselves.
      Marketing that cost more, management that costs more.
      The label HAS TO get their money back…. any way at all.
      BEFORE the artist gets a pretty fucking penny, debt gotta be paid.
      The artists get screwed in performance royalties and sales ( the labels Cut )
      Get NO FUCKING mechanical copyright royalties
      And to top it off, they owe the labels that advance
      So even if the label Only breaks even, on sales and royalties.THEY PROFIT
      well who’s services were being used after all.
      
      TL;DR WORST CASE….
      
      The album needlessly cost them hundreds of thousands to make.
      The band is in debt for the full advance
      They receive no royalties or money from sales
      
      Ever wonder why Independent artists exist at all ?
      It’s for no rational reason….surely
    - Dat Dude
      
      you don’t think record labels got hip to that, hince 360 deals they own everything you create anything that’s attached to your name. Changing your name wouldn’t work in todays industry. I find this all and good, but it’s not the answer, secondly it will start of as a honest plan but in time he will or some other will find a way to screw people, it always happens. also the ones mad at the artist for making the amount of money need to chill, because the majority of artist don’t make any money at all. Look at bow wow, he had to take a job at BET cause he ‘s not making what the public thinks he is.
  - meowmix
    
    i think this is potentialy a massive revolutionizing of the record industry as we have known it. all dotcom needs is one or two artists to make it big from his service. airplay being proof as well as music channels that play vids, like mtv used to when it was a music station, and he’ll have changed the world for ever.
    
    once someone makes it big, the new generation of bands and artists will move over to his type of service, i’m sure he’ll have competitors once the idea takes off.
    - Ole Juul
      
      I think you got it bang on, meowmix. If this isn’t the one, then we’re at least close. This is how it is going to happen when it does. This is the new radio.
  - teenygozer
    
    So, what you’re saying is that basically this is for the next generation of great artists out there. Even if so, I’m still not sure why you seem to think this is bad just because it doesn’t service the current crop of artists. We have to start somewhere; think of this as an investment in our culture’s future.
- Stewbags
  
  free music with adds! As long as i get to choose what i want to play and its not another internet radio and it works on most or all my devices, I’m all in. Hope it brings music industry to its greedy knees
- Blergh
  
  That’s a pretty clear sign you don’t own a business.
Jonathan Evans

Can’t wait for the record labels to be screwed over!
- meowmix
  
  they won’t be screwed, they’ll be surpassed by the new digital world which they failed to recognize or attempt to migrate too.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maclovio-Williams/100002087191236 Maclovio Williams

From the ashes…
Umpyxedd

Will there be any DRM on the files? I could set Megakey up in a VM in that case. I bet there wouldn’t be a linux version of the application anyway…
- Anon
  
  Maybe, but after Kim’s experiences over the last year, from the raid to getting support from the EFF and Woz to becoming an internet freedom fighter, you’d think he’d make sure the most free OS on the planet is represented, if not right out of the gate, then shortly thereafter.
  
  If he doesn’t have something that works with Linux, it would probably be worth mentioning it to him after MegaBox is up and running. He might be receptive.
  - meowmix
    
    of course he will, he’ll want to exploit all avenues of revenue. i bet he’s even support os/2 and beos.
- Guest
  
  Well at least some of Megabox programmers are using Ubuntu Linux (1:39, 1:51).
Bittorrent OG

As simple as this stragity is, why wouldn’t music labels do this? You can get advertisers to pay as much as you want. While keeping it free for the public.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Because what this will NOT generate is a 900% profit margin for the labels…Though it might multiply the actual revenue the artists get (from 0,5% of a big cake to 90% of a much smaller one)
- Anyone
  
  because they can’t screw over the artists this way
  with this model the artist keeps 90% of the earnings, with the current model the artist gets 10% if he is lucky, the rest is leeched off by the greedy middlemen
  in the case of bands that 10% still has to be split with your bandmates
  
  they also don’t get to decide who actually gets to release music, they will lose their role as gatekeeper
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    10%? Try 0,5%.
    
    See, most of the “advertised” royalty the artist gets is already earmarked for paying off the “advance” (huge phat loan) the label makes the artist take in order to record and market a hideously expensive video (in a huge studio owned by the label and using the labels own marketing of course – all at inflated prices).
Jones

I’m sure everyone else will appreciate Megabox stealing their ad revenue.
- smith
  
  No-ones stealing anything you moron
  - Jones
    
    “Megakey works like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads it replaces a small percentage with Mega’s own ads.”
    - chronoss chiron
      
      so ill need a ad-adblocker ROFL
    - Qjo
      
      Does it really matter whose ad I ignore?
- Guest
  
  I’m sure artists will appreciate receiving 90% of the profits, which I care infinitely more about than how much ad revenue some douchebags get for their fake virus warnings.
- Fandango
  
  Oh what a lovely little troll You are.
  - Zzzzzz
    
    Oh what a butt hurt corporate shill you are.
Guest

I wonder if the MAFFIA will put loads of pressure on the advertisers to stop advertising with Mega when this all takes off.
- chronoss chiron
  
  when they see the number of peeps coming it wont be able to do that.
  ITS like if you get a mall and had 1 million come buy your store and so someone tries to close the mall you just move to YOUR OWN MALL…..
  - Guest
    
    Not if the MAFIAA actually make it ILLEGAL to advertise on his service, then they’d be scared to advertise even if there are millions using the service.
    - meowmix
      
      not all advertizers are in the us, not all countries like the us. i don’t see how the fuckheads can make it illegal to advertize on it, bar banning us comps from doing so and i don’t see that working out to well as it’ll be fucking with buisness, which we all know pays the us goverment lackys.
    - Guest
      
      @c466900e9ef956f0dae9cdf09de60af1:disqus Not if the MAFIAA put pressure on other countries, the only ad companies will be Chinese and Russian ones, not much of a market there for clicks.
- Qjo
  
  Of course they will. Expect massive retaliation and (il)legal action. Stay tuned!
  - Anon
    
    You are talking about the MPAA/RIAA. The parenthesis on illegal was unnecessary and incorrect. Illegal action is the only kind of action they know how to take. They only get away with it because they have the deeds to the souls of most of the people that could punish them.
- meowmix
  
  they’d be sued for screwing with enterprise and the free market, a definate no no in corporate whore land, america. dotcom’ll be playing the music industry at thier own game, but with a fresh deck of cards that haven’t been stacked.
  - Guest
    
    ” they’d be sued for screwing with enterprise and the free market, a definate no no in corporate whore land, america”
    
    I believe the proper US legal term you are looking for is
    “felony interference with an outdated business model”
    - meowmix
      
      so you can be a repeat offender and only be taken to court once for the crime? drugs dealers are on a win win footing then, go to court, do your porrige, get out start dealing again and you’re safe as houses.
  - Stitch
    
    I wonder if you’re familiar with the legal concept of Double Jeopardy (no, it’s not anything to do with the gameshow). Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_jeopardy#United_States
    
    In short, you can’t be tried for the same crime twice.
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      “Alex, I’ll take “Big Boned” for $500.00″. “My little man Kimble isn’t fat, he’s Big Boned”.
      
      What did Mrs. Schmitz say when people said her son was fat?
      
      “Alex, I’ll take “Big Shit’s” for $100.00″…..
    - Monster
      
      there’s so many fucking loop holes through and around that law. hahaha
      
      internet/wiki lawyers! ..I love it!
Eugene Blackman

Hey everyone can some please explain to me how this megakey is suppose to work? What is the difference between this and for example google play, grooveshark,spotify and iTunes. Please explain and my apologies for not understanding.
- ndmushroom
  
  From the point of view of the consumer, the difference between Megabox and itunes/google play is that it’s free, and the difference between Megabox and Spotify/Grooveshark is that (if I got this correctly) Megabox allows you to download the music, while Spotify/Grooveshark only allow you to stream it (in other words, you can listen to music from Megabox even if you’re not connected to the internet).
  From the point of view of the musicians, the difference is between making 90% of your work and making around 0,1% off your work, which is the case with the record label + itunes combination.
  From the point of view of the labels, the difference is between life and death. Megabox has no room for the labels. The revenues are split between Megabox (10%) and the artist (90%).
  
  Hope that helps.
  - chronoss chiron
    
    you realize if you crack any stream drm you effectively have a download too…but ya its why i never liked streaming its DRMED and its pay per use in effect.
    
    artists have to realize that there music is the advertisement and the shows they put on are the venue and what you can make via that advertising of music is GREAT. EVEN NEIL YOUNG said piracy is the new radio
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      Exactly, I’ve been saying for a long time, that music being played on the radio isn’t entertainment, it’s 100% advertising.
  - meowmix
    
    the only part of the old music industry pardigme i see remaining will be tour managers.
- Glumbo
  
  They are all different. Grooveshark is free (use tinyshark or html5 version on mobile). This is just combining Groovesharks business module with his old ideas.
ElseAndrew

Can’t wait for Megakey to come out, so I can find a way to block it from hijacking my ad revenue. I don’t understand why he thinks it’s okay to steal from other users making money from there websites.

No better than the people who are trying to put him out of business.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Wait, what? USERS have had complete adblocking for many years. NOW you get your knickers in a twist for an “adblocker” which will block only a small percentage?
  
  Indeed, megakey users probably cannot block other ads as easily (conflict with other adblockers) and might be motivated to let them through instead. So actually, Dotcom is providing you a far greater potential audience for your own ads as well.
  
  Are you trolling on purpose or are you actually dumb enough to miss those two rather relevant aspects? You might want to join the RIAA with that view…
  - Anyone
    
    statistics suggest about 25% of people use adblockers
    I doubt MegaKey will add many more, those who can’t be bothered to install an adblocker now will not bother to install MegaKey
    
    for a current example NoScript does similar, it blocks most scripts but annoys you with ads every time you start Firefox. that’s why I removed it, the AdBlock guys gave up blocking NoScript because they updated it so often to circumvent those blocks
    not sure what the current state is
    - SomeoneElse
      
      I’m a happy NoScript user and in my experience it DOES NOT annoy you with ads. It only shows a one-time webpage to you when there is a new Noscript release, explaining the new blocking features.
      
      Conclusion: Either you have been exposed to a corrupted version of the plugin or you are a moron that can’t read what’s in front of you.
    - Anyone
      
      @3dc1570ed3d6e38313aa287a90ef06a0:disqus
      that one-time webpage has ads
      and at that time there was a “war” with adblock with NoScript releasing new versions daily to circumvent the newest adblock update
      
      but since then AdBlock has given up trying to block NoScript ads, so I guess NoScript toned it down as well
  - Guest
    
    I get the impression he already has.
  - Janny
    
    >which will block only a small percentage?
    Megabox hopes to become a very popular website, resulting in a lot of Megakey downloads – unlike Adblock which isn’t commonly known by the common web users.
    
    >Wait, what? USERS have had complete adblocking for many years.
    Ad block and ad replacement are very different. If someone blocks an ad it’s because they don’t want to see crappy ads. Ad replacement isn’t people who want to block ads but to see ads (and most likely have popups on non-popup websites) and result in a loss in revenue.
    
    Or are you saying people who want to block ads will now use ad replacement? That’s not how this would work…
    
    >and might be motivated to let them through instead.
    Wow, I cannot believe what I’m hearing. People who use ad block use it for a reason – they do NOT want ads. Enabling ads and using an ad replacement defeats the purpose of adBLOCK.
    
    >Are you trolling on purpose or are you actually dumb enough to miss
    those two rather relevant aspects? You might want to join the RIAA with
    that view…
    Congrats, labelling someone who has different opinions as a troll. Just like the typical user I see on Torrentfreak.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      1) Users today have the option of complete adblocking. 100%. Users who want to make use of megabox need to install the megakey, resulting in ads actually going through. This increases the potential ad views in general.
      
      2) “Ad block and ad replacement are very different. If someone blocks an ad it’s because they don’t want to see crappy ads. Ad replacement isn’t people who want to block…”
      
      You obviously have no clue. Technically speaking, an ad replacer first needs to block the ad which was actually sent, then redirect the query. That means two plugins likely in conflict if you try to use adblocker simultaneously. It’s going to be one or the other, not both, unless you hack megakey with every update of it. “So no, there is no diffference concerning the way this must actually work.
      
      “Wow, I cannot believe what I’m hearing. People who use ad block use it for a reason – they do NOT want ads. Enabling ads and using an ad replacement defeats the purpose of adBLOCK.”
      
      Yes, and trying to enable adblocker will disable any redirect as well – meaning megakey won’t allow access. It’ll be either/or.
      
      3) “Congrats, labelling someone who has different opinions as a troll. Just like the typical user I see on Torrentfreak.”
      
      If someone displays monumental ignorance the only two alternatives are stupidity or deliberate obfuscation. The latter is according to the textbook definition “Trolling”.
      
      You will note however, that I did leave him the alternative. I now must extend you the same courtesy.
      
      Honestly, if all you can produce is a line of verifiable falsehoods and erronous assumptions then you shouldn’t be astonished at all when you get called on your BS.
      
      And so far every last post you’ve made in this thread has contained nothing but irrelevant nonsense.
- Anon
  
  I run adblock 24/7 on any browsers I used. It is literally the first extension I install on a browser. Do you think I “steal from other users”?
  
  Also, I might actually consider installing Megakey, if for no other reason than to give a symbolic one-finger salute all the corrupt anachronisms out there that tried to (illegally) shut Kim down.
  - Nate
    
    Yes, you steal from website creators.
    - Qjo
      
      Then why are adblockers legal? Perhaps it is the invasive ads which are forced on the public that should be prohibited. I have no sympathy for the poor Madison Ave. execs whose automobiles cost more than my home, nor will I lose any sleep over their lost revenues.
    - The_seventh_guest
      
      Using adblock is not stealing, is ignoring those ads!
    - Anon
      
      Guess what? I don’t watch much TV at all. When the TV is on, I usually use commercial breaks as time to mute the TV and go make a snack, start or fold some laundry, or do some other chore. I’ve been doing that for years, so how many felonies have I racked up by your reckoning?
    - EnGarde MotherFugger!
      
      I call bullshit on you. Defend your point.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      I see. Well, according to that line of argument, looking away from a billboard is theft as well.
      
      Damn, the pro-copyright crowd really are happy about expanding the definitions of that word, aren’t they…?
    - Guest
      
      Stealing?! BTW Internet is not Television (excluding DVR) where you can’t skip ads. But I would gladly disable it on Megabox website.
    - Zzzzzz
      
      You went full retard, never go full retard.
      
      Not happy with the level of stupid required to call file-sharing theft you idiots had to go full retard and claim that not watching adverts is theft.
- Walternate
  
  Else, you just scored the DumbAss of the Year award. I’m completely with Scary Devil Mon on this one. STUPID MORON! STOP USING THE WORD STEAL unless somebody breaks into your house or your car
BobButtons

1) X ( – . – ) X Here’s to hoping previous lifetime members keep their status, though doubtful.

2) I wonder if people would be able to install Megakey and Adblock Plus and listen to music for free without any ads.
- Janny
  
  Regarding that “2)”;
  Megakey was around before now, people previously managed to get free premium accounts by downloading megakey and turning PC off for 24 hours then uninstalling Megakey then you have a free premium account. Also, Megakey had an anti-adblock programme which detects if it blocks the ads then doesn’t give them a premium account. (Any website could do this with a simply javascript code, it’s just websites don’t force users to use adblock … but I recon websites will start blocking Megakey ads if detected).
PirateSoldier

You can be sure the record labels will quickly try and adapt to kims’ idea by then it will be too late. Take a taste of your own medicine and die quickly while we the public will be laughing
- Anyone
  
  I really doubt the labels will give up 90% of their revenue
  - Batmon
    
    Tre, not willingly. But that’s not the same as saying it won’t happen anywaY. As an analogy, I guess the Sheriff of Nottingham didn’t appreciate Mr. Hoods efforts of wealth reassignment either.
Anonymous

boy, am i looking forward to this really taking off and the sooner the better! my only concern is what lengths will the US government, law enforcement and entertainment industries, including Hollywood go, given what they have tried to do up til now, to stop this getting off the ground, let alone succeeding! there are going to be a whole lot of people really pissed off at him. i wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t ‘contracts’ put out on him. as it is, there will be meetings held in greater secrecy even than the TPP ones going on at the moment, attended by execs from the major labels, movie studios and their friends from government, all trying to come up with ideas on how to get him put out of the picture permanently, without getting caught and without being implicated.
- SickPuppyJedi
  
  Me, too but again – remember that these are the forces of darkness. As soon as their agenda is exposed to the public it fails. Look at SOPA/PIPA and the EU equivalent (i forgot it’s name). Putting a hit on Dotcom would only make things worse for him.
  
  I’ts the old Obi-Wan line; “Strike me down Darth, and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine” – They arrested him, destroyed his business and impounded his belongings and he becomes an overnight hero of the rebellion (yeah, that’s us).
  
  Could you imagine what would happen if somebody tried to kill him? I dare hardly think that through….
  - SickPuppyJedi
    
    ”make it worse for him” – I ment – worse for THEM
MPAA MegaFcked

MegaUpload backups coming to a server near you !!

It’s a MegaDotCom thingy lol ;)
Judgedred

The only 2 things I have against ads in websites and which led me to use adblock plus are, first, when i see a site with like 20 ads in a single page, that´s just to damn much, especially when they are not just confined to the borders of the page and also pop up in the middle of an article, and the second thing I hate about ads are those damn ads that keep using like 50% of my computer´s cpu, and then the fans just start working like there’s no tomorrow, well that’s just no acceptable for me. If megakey behaves well on these 2 things than fine by me, but if not than…well, thepiratebay is just one click away anyway so no harm done lol
- BobButtons
  
  The other issue I have is when an article takes a simple “Top Ten” type list and spans it across 10 individual pages. I don’t mind supporting your site with normal banner ads, etc, but do the right thing and just make it a list.
AndyLame

I would buy from Kim just out of spite.
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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ETIA6JH4F63IKX33ZFPCVSU4EU Arturo

Thumbs down. Perhaps that Dotcom want to be one more.
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Anonymous

megabox.com?
Violated0

I think we can say that this makes a great platform for which to launch MegaBox on when he already has much publicity and support. As from this video they are looking very good indeed then I can only wish them the best of luck.

The most interesting aspect I noticed was the ability to search for local musicians to check out what is happening with music in your local region. Supporting you local bands that you can go and see seems a lot better in my opinion than supporting those bands half a planet away.

MegaBox offering 90% to musicians will certainly get them noticed. I am sure the few members left within the RIAA are running scared when their old business model collapses more as each day passes. Now there is little more than UMG left buying up other labels like the latest EMI. As musicians often get screwed over in such sales, when contracts end when the company ends, then you would hope musicians are wiser these days and dream of their own control under services like MegaBox than with dreaming to be the next Lady Gaga.
Arb1

“December last year Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom revealed his plan to put the “dinosaur record labels” out of business.” is probably why the labels got the US gov to kill megaupload cause what he was planning to do with megabox would of.
- SmegHead
  
  There is nothing more dangerous than a determined man on a mission…
  
  They tried to stop him, and it looks like it’s failing miserably.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    “There is nothing more dangerous than a determined man on a mission…”
    
    Yes there is, a vengeful woman with bi-polar dissorder or schizophrenia whose off her meds.
    - Gordons
      
      ” Yes there is, a vengeful woman with bi-polar dissorder or schizophrenia whose off her meds.”
      
      Is there any other kind???
MrDoe

The MegaKey is just an ad-hijacker. It will work in generating revenue since everytime you search on google and the ad words on the right hand side are replaced by Kim’s = $$$$$. D’oh. It just hijacks every ad that’s displayed by a network. It’s an “adware”.
- ScrewEwe2
  
  Dotcom must be a masochist, because if MegaKey is a ad-hijacker, all sorts of advertising companies and lawyers are going to be waiting in line to sue his oversized ass for damages. I will never pay iTunes, Amazon, Megabox or any other company a single penny for any song(s). I will pay a reasonable price to go to a concert, but $125.00 per ticket to see a dinosaur will never happen.
Time to Wise Up

The only thing that this fraudster is interested in is his own self-enrichment. One would have to be incredibly naive to believe that he wants to help artists – after he’s spent years destroying them.
- Anonymous
  
  fuck off you industry troll!!!!
  - Time to Wise Up
    
    Goody… I’ve rattled somebody’s cage
    - Anyone
      
      I don’t think you can get that rich on just 10%
    - MPAA Marketing
      
      No, we’re just tired of you trolls ratteling the saber
      F?ck off and die miserably..
    - Janny
      
      Wow, Anonymous & MPAA Marketing. Yet another two twats who label someone with a different option to you as a troll.
      
      How is he trolling when Kimble WAS a fraudster and IS a criminal, have you not flipping researched him? He stole credit cards, he sold pirated content, he scammed thousands from investors and more. Google, use it!
    - Anyone
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus
      he might have a shady past, but he paid for those crimes and deserves a clean start and a second chance
      he was a model citizen since then and ran a legal business that the MAFIAA destroyed for no reason
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      @7c5e8389b1015fec79d94d6af2505157:disqus
      
      “How is he trolling when Kimble WAS a fraudster and IS a criminal…”
      
      According to that line of argumentation, the Canadian Record Industry Association (for instance) now qualifies as a criminal organization which should never be given the benefit of doubt in court. After all, they spent 20 years stealing 300,000 songs from artists and selling them without permission from artists.
      
      According to your definition, then, is a person or organization “criminal” even after paying their dues? If so that door swings both ways.
      
      Your argument is decidedly one-sided here. Dotcom isn’t a criminal until he’s had his day in court. Given the trend of your previous comments I’m not at all surprised you chose to conveniently “forget” that little catch in your argument.
    - Guest
      
      Do you only have access to 3 IP addresses? LOL.
- retaliate
  
  So he’s like the record labels then… except his business model would see a higher percentage of revenue going to the artists and fans won’t be getting sued for obtaining content for free?
  
  Ex-fraudster or not, his business model seems like an evolution to the one the RIAA are clinging on to – AND, in case anyone has forgotten… the RIAA did engage in a price-fixing scam throughout the 90s – they were racketeers!
  
  Might as well go with the ex-conman that offers the fairest deal and who hasn’t had to bribe politicians to make infringement become a criminal offense. The proverbial “Devil We Know” is such a rancid asshole that Kimble’s attempts to monetize music seem like a refreshing change in comparison.
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Anon

Block ads and replace them? lol This’ll be made illegal the week after it launches. lol Piracy is so eternally stupid.
- Guest
  
  The RIAA will probably be screaming that he is profiteering from piracy etc.
  - Walternate
    
    They really need to come up with a new song. That one is getting ancient…
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  That comment begs the question…If piracy is so “eternally stupid” then how come we still run rings around all comers ever since the cassette tape was invented?
  
  The inescapable conclusion is that our adversaries must have all the smarts of a dessicated potato.
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guest

its not about stealing anything, its about webmasters being able to pay to run their sites. I run a few sites, which are very popular with the community they were created for. However without adsense revenue, I wouldn’t be prepared to pay for them all myself and would simply not host them anymore and many people would loose out. If ad-hijacking kicks off, you’ll see how many small-ish sites close down
- Anyone
  
  adblock programs exist today already
  so what’s the issue with another one?
  - http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
    
    Don’t you get it? It’s 2012! Everyone with a hobby is entitled to be paid!
    
    New paint job and rims on your car? the city should pay you for making their roads look nicer with your car’s presence!
    
    Do it because you love it. Hell, the people who contributed to the development of the TCP/IP protocol standard that we are all using now didn’t get paid a fucking dime.
    - Guest
      
      If you didn’t get paid, that’s on you. You did it as a hobby, business owners are doing it as a job. Not everyone’s got to do it your way.
  - Masau Fuku
    
    There are three important differences 1) The ad blocking software isn’t forced upon you in order to use a service* 2) The creators aren’t making money off of blocking ads (aside from whatever donations they get) 3) A fairly small % of users use adblocking software. If Kim gets his way (and if other companies start doing ad-hijacking as well) this % will increase quite a bit.
    
    *Yes, there’s the option to pay per song instead…but then it’s just itunes with a larger % of the rev going to artists (which would be great).
    
    This isn’t an ad blocking program but an ad replacing program. Usually, these (and similar) programs are labeled as malware or adware.
    - lattari
      
      Actually they are. At least the guy who wrote adblock for Chrome, made a long and emotional plea for ‘donations’. It actually red more like, give me your money or I’ll starve and be homeless.
    - Anyone
      
      how many people used MegaUpload when compared to the whole of internet
      or how many people currently use spotify/itunes etc.
      sure, it’s a few million people for those services, but by no means the majority of the “internet”
      
      I don’t think this will significantly increase the amount of blocked ads, most people are fine with paying for stuff
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Mc

Everyone talking about “stealing ad revenue”. Its already my choice what ads run on my machine, i am not obliged to run any at all. In fact i currently adblock nearly anything, and make exceptions for sites i visit frequently and find useful. With megakey, i might end up see more ads from ad networks, not less.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  My point earlier exactly. People installing megakey will actually see ads. Meaning that of the 25% who currently run adblock a significant proportion will start generating ad revenue for the advertisers, donating eyeball time they hadn’t before.
KiRE

Who,, Who, Who, and some dude who turned the mars rover into a fucking mp3 player?
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ScrewEwe2

“This revenue comes from the Megakey application that users have to install. Megakey works like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads it replaces a small percentage with Mega’s own ads. Those who prefer not to install the app have the option to buy the music instead.“Music will be free for users who install the Megakey App. Anyone who does not like the App can just purchase the music,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak previously.”

“Megakey, We don’t need no stinkin’ Megakey”. That would be my position on a Megakey decision.
- http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
  
  LOL! Surely though there will be no way into fooling Mega’s servers into thinking a user has MegaKey installed when its functionality is really disabled? I give the hackers a week at most.
  - Anyone
    
    or install it and run an “ad-adblock” extension for your browser
    people wanting to block it will be able to block it, I’m sure Kim knows that this is a cat and mouse game he cannot win ;)
  - Banana
    
    Probably 99% of music listeners are not tech savvy enough to even think of that,.Those dummies would even do it if they knew about ’cause it would be more trouble and less security..
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    Depends on how often megakey is updated. Hacking a plugin once will be done, ten times a month? Not likely. Not for the simple payoff of not seeing selected ads.
Roswell1701

THIS JUST IN:

After eating a stalk of bananas, five oranges, a bag of apples and a big bunch of grapes, Kim Dotcom is expected to shit a brimming bowl of fruit salad at any moment. Local authorities are on the scene and plan to charge him with delusions of grandeur. Meanwhile, Entertainment Industry Executives are in rout and expected to examine Dotcom’s dump for copyright violations.
- http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
  
  How did you get your avatar so much bigger than mine? Damn. My penis has shriveled up so small that I can’t even take a piss without getting my balls wet.
  - Roswell1701
    
    Avatar Envy! Thanks, Dude, I’m flattered. :)
- Hey I can fly a UFO
  
  In related news, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd were caught in a motel in Reno, NV performing mutual felatio. Several US senators were found bound and gagged in the bathroom showing signs of rectal abuse.
  - JordanKratz
    
    After being caught they all claimed they were abducted in a UFO and it is all the Aliens fault for their bizarre behavior.
    - UFOelleman
      
      Right-o – I’ve heard of those blokes. They’re the one with spaceships powered by pure greed. You leave a dollar bill floating in space in one end of the galaxy and tell the ship’s computer about it and it will get there faster than the Hingefreel’s ships, powered by Bad News.
http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq

Curious as to how this will be implemented into a mobile platform such as Android when root is required to even use the Adfree app (blocks ads anywhere on the device, although I think Firefox can do it in-browser without root). Yes, I do run Adfree and yes I’m an asshole. DEALWITHIT.GIF

Okay, I’m actually a pretty nice guy. My neck beard though… he’s a total dick.
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Kawabunga!

To the web “masters” etc. above, who seems to solely rely on ads for income . Quit yer whining and get a real job. Nobody is feeling sorry for you lot. Do like any other pr0n site: Have a small free-section and a paid section. If your content is good enough, people will pay for it. Just look at GartnerGroup. CxO’s read their crap like satan reads the bible and pay through their noses for a subscription

To the marketeers: You do not have any sort of default right to have your ads displayed on any screen of mine. I will block you out per default and only alow you if I so chose.

To Kim: You have the momentum and it appears you have the support of most around here. At least many are willing to give your new service a try. Don’t abuse this trust.
- Roswell1701
  
  I am neither a “web master” nor a “marketeer.” I’m just a Pirate, a damn good one, in fact. And I’ve been pirating since the mid 1970′s, which I’m sure was long before you hit the scene. You should really work on your sense of humor. :)
  - Kawabunga!
    
    So, what’s your point?
    
    You might want to lay off them assumptions based on language – you’re not the only old-timer around here – I copied someones punchcard program once. Quid quo pro, Clarice.
    - Roswell1701
      
      Punchcard program… Oh, Clarice, those shoes, that perfume; you’ve been shopping at Wall-mart again, haven’t you?… How about making Grade “A” copies of blockbuster films from local theatrical prints and producing copies to VHS and Beta in real time? How about running a wall of over 100 tape cassette decks, so you could provide less expensive copies of popular albums to the masses?… Fly away now, Clarice. Fly, fly, fly. :)
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Kyle Hutton

you guys a funny if you use adblock to block Megakey ad’s then nobody will make shit, why would i pay for ads no one will see?
- Anyone
  
  you don’t
Banana

I can’t see it working for the artists but only time will tell. Just, think of how many they can profit by person with ads and the average number of songs one person owns. I’m not really the average but i would not be able to pay via ads before i die.
Shadowrealmdvd

The people that are bitching about blocking ads are either not educated or just idiots. This practice happens alot on websites already and you dont realize it. Next time you visit you next ad loaded website, notice how many of the ads are from places YOU FREQUENT or even have been to recently. Tracking cookies do that. Move along trolls.
Time To Wise Up

Anyone who voices scepticism about this venture is being labelled a troll on here, but folks need to get a grip. Would any sensible person on here put their faith in this known fraudster? Would you buy shares in a property venture, food retailer or insurance business run by somebody with this guy’s track record? For the very same reason no sane artist should entrust their music to this guy – he’s only going to pocket the lot to enrich himself. Folks on here may have strong opinions about copyright, piracy etc. but why abandon everyday common sense?
- Anyone
  
  he had a great track record with MU
  and there are quite a few artists already signed up with him, one even acted as CEO for MU for a while
  
  the labels are just so much worse that many artists will take “chances” with him.
  getting 90% is just so much better than just getting 10%
  - Time To Wise Up
    
    How can you be so naive as to believe that!
- Guest
  
  Since when has it been a crime to pocket the lot to enrich oneself lol
- Guest
  
  Because the charges for which he has a track record have been dealt with and he’s done time for them, and this time ’round there’s been a shitton of oversight and broken law just to get to him?
  
  Tell you what – on the grounds of something you may or may not have done, we’re going to send the police to arrest you! Sounds fair, innit?
  - Time to Wise Up
    
    There are many more deserving people who are genuinely remorseful for past crimes, and gone out into the community to work with underprivileged kids for example. and given people a reason to find faith in them.
    
    Kim Dotcom has done no such thing, quite the opposite – revelling in his own self-enrichment from criminal activity.
    - Anyone
      
      what criminal activity?
    - Guest
      
      There are many more deserving crimes and problems that need attention – yet Kim Dotcom was prioritised with illegal spying, no proper arrest warrants and a fucking SWAT team backed by helicopter… why?
      
      The RIAA and all its efforts cast the first stone long ago. If you can’t see that… well, sounds like someone’s getting their bread buttered with industry phallus juice.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  ”
  Would any sensible person on here put their faith in this known fraudster?”
  
  Your argument suggests everyone should in a similar vein assume the same about RIAA/MPAA/Ifpi and BSA. Given their long and hardy record of court convictions.
  
  To put it bluntly, Dotcom’s previous crimes pale into insignificance compare to, say, those of the CRIA.
  
  Given the choice, go with the smaller criminal.
  - Time to Wise Up
    
    That’s stupid talk – a nasty cynical attempt to justify wrongdoing is OK by making out (falsely) that everyone is up to it. Your parents must be in despair… assuming they tried to teach you the difference between right and wrong.
    - Anyone
      
      the MAFIAA has lost court cases, they have been proven criminal
      so has Kim, but on a much smaller scale than the MAFIAA
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Right and wrong. Right.
      
      So because of your personal opinion Dotcom is a criminal despite the fact that he’s not had his day in court for what he is now accused of, and despite of the fact that he’s paid his dues for past offenses? Here’s a hint. Innocent until proven guilty applies. When you discard that principle you do not have the moral ground to stand on charging others with your own presumptions.
      
      And then you turn around and accuse ME for not knowing the difference between right and wrong?
      
      Thank you for making that position clear. And may I say that nick of yours is indeed deliciously ironic.
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Blergh

If the stupid in these comments could be harnessed, it could power the world.
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TinkRow

I think fatboy has become quite full of himself lately.
PrivacyCrew.tk
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Aliena Ferox

LOL good luck getting me to install that shit. I have ad block for a reason….and can’t we all just go to TPB to get their music for free without installing the app? I mean, if they are exclusive to Megabox and you can get them for free, what’s to stop them from appearing on TPB the same day?

Hijacking ads will also cause problems with people who display ads, etc. Not that I care but it sounds like an awful business model, tbh.

Then again, people are stupid and don’t know what ad block is or what TPB is so making a business off of stupid people might actually be pretty smart.
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isawsasquatch

I hope this proves a viable option for musicians, but I’m quite sure it won’t go very far in putting the labels out of business. As it stands now, the greatest benefit for artists that the labels provide is the capital to pay for the recording (a venture which includes everything from the advance to write and rehearse the material, to the studio time, technical personnel, artwork, design, packaging, duplication, marketing, and so forth). Established artists (who, it should be noted, in most cases have earned their success via the label system) may have the capital and notoriety to cover much of these concerns, but for new artists, Megabox may still prove of little use in terms of securing the “healthy revenue stream” we see touted here.
Boyareallofyoudumb

I’ll stick with iTunes, thank you. They haven’t missed a royalty check, and the people behind actually know how to make money and what they are doing. If you want to listen to my music for free – cool – you can go to my website and listen all you want. If you want to buy it, then cool – go to iTunes, Amazon, or a bunch of other places. I still get 70+%.
- ScrewEwe2
  
  So who you is in the music biz? Without an artist name, we can’t tell if your music is lame. Are you some sort of famous fuck, or a one hit wonder tryin’ to make a buck? If your music is dumb, I’m gonna stick with “Comfortably Numb”.
- Gordons
  
  Boyareyoudumb, a new method of revenue comes along that could potentially increase your income and you won’t try it.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  That at least sounds as if you’ve chosen an option which doesn’t give 99% of what you do earn to a label. Good for you.
  
  Megabox promises another alternative. How well that pays is still in the air.
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torrent freakster

I started to use a ad blocker when i realized nearly all, if not all, ads where malicious (virus, false advertisements tricking user with fine print tricks, etc), not useful to me and slowed down my surfing considerably (the ads was made by stupid morons that could not develop a site if their life depended on it, lots of bad java and html code)
Ad companies destroyed for themselves.

I have told many ad companies, if you want users to see your ads FOLLOW THE COMMON SENSE RULES !
Use non-intrusive advertising (https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads)
Something that do not disturb the user while reading by blinking, flashing or making sounds or other attention whore seeking crap

This Megakey sounds like bad news, if it behaves as i think it will.
While it is an interesting model, why do they needs to force you to install a most likely malicious program on your computer ?
Remember bad toolbars that comes with other programs ?
Why isn’t the ads provided on the megabox’s site enough ?

Since we know toolbars are bad (slows down surfing, spyware and malicious, etc)
What guarantee do we have that Megakey will not monitor the user and do bad things like toolbars ?
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Billy2000

I will pass on having to download anything from dotcom. I bet it will probably track eveything else your doing online. I just stick with the good old methods of downloading music.
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http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq

If advertisers would adopt a strict, industry wide, code of ethics then they’ll find many people will have no problem seeing them and disabling their blocking add-ons for those domains. I don’t think the developers of Adblock and ABP would be against the idea of allowing users the option to unblock ads from domains that follow a code of ethics. They already do it for the non-intrusive text Google adsense ads.
- Anyone
  
  AdBlock already has the option of allowing ads on sites that you like
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Horsemeat

Whats the difference between this and Spotify?

I’m sorry but this has been dome before and it did not destroy the music industry.
Mchlgibson9

Ok i have read all the comments on here about this, and here is my take on it.

I could be a new artist who wants to get my music out into the world for all to hear. To do so i make a video of my band and myself playing, and put it on youtube or facebook. Now i know im not going to make any money from that but what i am hoping for is recognition in the industry. People watch my video, hear my songs and like what they hear, tell me about it, reply to the postings. So i make a full cd. So now i have a fan base not a big one mind you, but a base none the less. But how do i make money at it, i go to my local superstores (walmart, target, best buy) and so on, they tell me that they only buy in large quantities so that it can be in all their stores, and before that it has to be approved at a corporate level. So i try the smaller regional stores, they are willing to give me a chance if i can get enough product to them to sell. Now i have people buying my music and im making money, i dont see whats wrong with that. Here comes the labels, sign with me ill give you money, women, cars, fame, all we ask for is a percentage of your profit. If you dont well guess what a month later a new band with a similar sound comes out on the label and now the base i had goes to them. So i sign to keep making money, keep doing what i like, but now instead of all my work paying off to me, i have to pay the label, for doing what? i ask.. mass producing my cd? could of done that myself after saving up my money. Advertising? i was getting that on youtube and facebook. for free. so i ask whats the harm in signing with dotcom? not a thing, its my music, my sound, my life, if i can make people happy listening to my music and making money so i can make more music, so who cares if i am with a label or not? the answer …. the label because i am making money at something that i dont need them for. i am making money without them and without them they go broke. i say let them go broke. 50 yrs ago when there was no internet social media, no faster than light instant communication between everyone, yea a label was the way to get your voice out to the people of the world, today i can do that just by uploading to a free website and waiting 5 minutes. we need to get with the times about a lot of things hopefully this is one of them
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Guest

Yo guise MAFIAA does not like dis.
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TheTapsa

“Small webmasters are who are hurt the most by Megakey.. lucky to ever
break even and you fail to realize the world isn’t full of “real life
jobs” so the internet is only how some people can make an income. Stop
being an asshole and realize not everyone works for a big company on the
internet and Megakey is killing exactly who they are targeting.. the
little guys” -Steven

So fuck logic?

Seems to me that technology has arrived to situation where it is moneywise stupid to be efficient. It’s the monetary system that needs the upgrade, not filesharing etc efficient piece of tech that needs downgrade because someone is losing his/her job. And if it is work you want, go ahead, start a farm without tractors or something. Very much work that way. And unnecessary too, if you’re not some kind of hobbyist who just happens to like it more that way. That would be somewhat logical even. But having everybody suffer from poverty and other technically preventable problems just because someone wants to play with outdated inferior model of society is just stupid and arrogant in my opinion. In fact I think it would be perfect if I didn’t have to do anything, and just do what I want.
Change is going to happen anyways and history too has shown that it is pretty much no use trying to stop better technologies from coming to use. (Typical example being writing press.)
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thenron

http://al.ly/MBY
gingernuts

K.Dotcom is very very fat. could it be he has a very big wallet too?
just an observation many of you have neglected to mention. it could have some meaning though but i don’t know where this is going.
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T3

art can’t be compensated with money. if people like your art and pay money for it , it’s fine. but building a system where “monetary compensation” for art is not only justified but implented as law is a step in the wrong direction. in the bible, jesus throws the “greedy jews” out of the temple and forbids to make business there. i am not a big fan of religion but i understand what the author wanted to express with that. so all you greedy money-whore-jews, go fuck yourself ! yes and Dotcom can fuck himself too, installing adware on my pc to download music? i rather go back to emule
- someone
  
  Newsflash, art isn’t always free to create. What makes you think it’s ok to take it for free? Software costs money to create, all these things you would like to enjoy cost someone something in some way so what make you think its ok to just take take take. If anyone is greedy here it’s people like you. Not saying these companies aren’t also greedy but its sort of the pot calling the kettle black.
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Ksorceron

One question. Record labels pay for marketing, recording time, etc (through the form of a loan). How would newer artist without the start up capitol be able to compete with the already successful artists who already have money to pay for a proper studio recording without the help of labels? Don’t get me wrong, I see the problems with labels but I think its shortsighted to not see the the good things they do, such as artist development. Not every musicians wants to record with cheese dick audio plugins and consumer grade budget recording gear.
Barbara Moss

Well, I don’t think it matters because once Mega goes live everyone who goes there will see Justin Bieber’s face or Lady Gaga’s face or Nicki Minaj’s face on the homepage etc. These artists from major labels will still dominate the site. What is the difference?

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