News report
Mega spectacle at launch of Kim Dotcom's new file-sharing site
The Guardian, January 20, 2013. Megaupload successor: Kim Dotcom's launch of Mega from his Auckland estate on 20 January 2013, one year to the day after the Megaupload seizure.
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- January 20, 2013
- Research grade
- S1
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Published
- January 20, 2013
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- What it supports
- Megaupload successor: Kim Dotcom's launch of Mega from his Auckland estate on 20 January 2013, one year to the day after the Megaupload seizure
- Dataset id
- src_guardian_mega_launch_2013
Research notes
- published_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2013-01-20T14:48:46.000Z).
- WebFetch is blocked from theguardian.com in this environment; the headline and date were read from the page's HTML directly.
How this source is used
Cited 1 time across 1 record type.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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MegaLater outcome
Same operators, Megaupload seizure