Megaupload

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Megaupload Limited
Type	Limited
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Revenue	?
Employees	?
Website	www.megaupload.com
Type of site	one-click hosting website
Available in	18 languages
Launched	March 21, 2005 (2005-03-21) (3 years ago)

Megaupload is an international one-click hosting website driven by Megaupload Limited, Hong Kong, available in many languages.

1 Usage
2 Internationalisation
3 Software
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Usage

The domain megaupload.com attracted at least 10 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.^[1]

The basic service is available for free and allows users to upload files of up to 1024 MB. Free users cannot download files larger than 500 MB, however. Free registered users are offered 50 GB of total file storage. Premium users are offered 250 GB total file storage. After a successful file upload, the user is given a unique URL which allows others to download the file.

Any file uploaded anonymously will expire if there are no downloads for at least 21 days. For free registered accounts, the expiration period is at least 90 days of inactivity, which can be manually reset. Premium accounts have no expiration period as long as the user remains a premium member.

Users must fill a text-based CAPTCHA when downloading a file. Non-registered users await 45 seconds in the download queue (registered users still have to wait 25 seconds) and 360 minutes between transfers after a certain amount of megabytes has been downloaded (100–200 MB).

Paying users get a premium account with a wider range of privileges.^[2]

Note that even paying members, do not get a direct hotlink for non-paying members to upload. Non-members trying to download your uploaded file are forced to Megaupload's site and have to wait 45 seconds to initiate a download.

[edit] Internationalisation

The website is localised in 18 languages:

[edit] Software

Megaupload has released a toolbar for both Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ and Mozilla Firefox 1.0+. This toolbar allows a user to gain premium access for a short period of time every day between 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM Eastern time. The toolbar also claims to give double download points for every file that is uploaded with the toolbar, but this feature has never been proven. Megaupload also released its upload/download manager, Mega Manager, which features a link-checker option. There are also options to manage your files, and to access the online control box that is also on the Megaupload site.