Recent history of the Internet can be summarized in 2 times: before and after the fall of Megaupload. The front groups that forbidden love between users and audiovisual productions. The subsequent fall is not only the complete building service, but whose structure depended on the Web site.

At this time of darkness in which initiatives are beginning to emerge and has been just the creator Megaupload, Kit Dotcom, which has come to show its own as music is concerned.

Megabox called and is only a proposal and plans was when he was arrested in January. The idea of ​​the project at a glance is simple: allow artists to sell their creations directly to users without going through third parties such as houses or labels.

There are not many details on the site in question but the Dotcom has said that 90% of the revenues of content creators will directly , looking to change the business model of music (at least to sell “alternative”).

The news is not new (has been around officially since the end of June) so it is more likely not see in the remainder of the year but in 2013 and when he mentioned for his Twitter account that is involved in all activities of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization that aims to help those who lost the data stored on servers Megaupload.

In this future, it is likely that the man beaten clean your name (at After all had fewer fights with Julio Assange Wikileaks) but will not do much without help and there would the backing of bands like Radiohead who have managed to dent the market with its proposals for distributing music.

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