Company and Services
The company's registered office is in Room 1204, on the 12th floor of the Shanghai Industrial Investment Building in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
The company web services included: (a) Megaupload.com, a one-click hosting service; (b) Megapix.com, an image hosting; (c) Megavideo.com and Megalive.com, video hosting services; (d) Megabox.com, a music hosting service; and (e) Cum.com, hosting for pornographic content (formerly Megaporn, Megarotic and Sexuploader). Other services included Megaclick, Megafund, Megakey and Megapay, all of which were advertisement and financial services. Two additional services, Megabackup and Megamovie, were in development before their closure.
| Website | Description of Service |
|---|---|
| Megavideo.com | Megavideo.com was an associated, ad-supported video hosting service. For non-members, it was time-limited; it blocked itself after 72 minutes, and then allowed users to resume watching after a 30 minute period. |
| Megapix.com | Launched in late 2010, Megapix.com allowed for the uploading of images, competing with other image-hosting services such as Photobucket, ImageShack, TinyPic, Imgur and others. |
| Megalive.com | Megalive.com was a live video-streaming service; it competed with Ustream, Justin.tv and Livestream. |
| Megabox.com | Megabox.com was a music/audio-hosting service for the uploading of whole music libraries and playlists. |
| Megaporn.com | Megaporn.com was a file-sharing service aimed specifically towards pornographic movies and images. |
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