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The MegaUpload site was closed down due to a copyright infringement scandal that had nothing to do with the programmers. The government shut them down to make an example of them. Users were using the site to download copyrighted versions of films. However, there was a ton of controversy over whether the government overstepped their authority...

Megaupload - Wikipedia

On 19 January 2012, the United States Department of Justice seized the domain names and closed down the sites associated with Megaupload after the owners were arrested and indicted for allegedly operating as an organization dedicated to copyright infringement. Subsequently, HK$330 million (approximately US$42 million) worth of assets were frozen by the Customs and Excise Department of Hong Kong. The company's founder, New Zealand resident Kim Dotcom, has denied any wrongdoing, and the case against Dotcom has been the subject of controversy over its legality. As of 2015, Kim Dotcom was fighting extradition to the United States.

The programmers working for mCig have all been cleared of any legal liability. Here's a video of Steve Wozniak defending what MegaUpload did as normal and legal for that type of service...

Steve Wozniak about megaupload

Statistics
Unique visitors: 82,764,913
Page Views (in history): over 1,000,000,000
Visitors per day: 50,000,000
Reach: 4%
Registered Members: 180,000,000
Storage: 25 petabyte (25,000 terabyte)
Once the 13th most visited site on the Internet
According to Sandvine, MegaUpload accounted for 1% of total traffic on fixed access networks in North America.
In a proceeding before the High Court of New Zealand on 2 February 2012, Kim Dotcom stated that Megaupload was "hosting 12 billion unique files for over 100 million users."

Software

Mega Manager

Mega Manager screenshot
Megaupload also released its upload/download manager, Mega Manager,[19] a download manager that featured a link-checker for Megaupload links as well as options to manage uploaded files, and to access the online control box that was on MegaUpload.

Megakey

Megakey was an adware application which removed bandwidth limitations on Mega services during "happy hour" periods. In return, the users running Megakey agreed to supply some personal identification and demographic data and to allow the substitution of ads on third party websites they visited with those of Megaupload.

Megabox

Megabox, a new form of media downloading site, was the first of its kind. Kim "Dotcom" described Megabox as "very similar to iTunes" except that it operated in a web browser using HTML5 technology and loaded "much faster than iTunes or anything else out there".[20]

Filebox

FileBox was a Flash applet that could be embedded onto any external webpage. It allowed users to upload content to Megaupload without having to visit the website itself or download the Mega Manager.

The company made hundreds of millions of advertising revenue before it was shut down.