Dotcom's Megabox to Launch "A Few Months"� After Mega

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With his upcoming project titled Megabox, Kim Dotcom is hoping to put the major music labels out of business. The music service promises to shift the balance of power away from multi-billion dollar corporations to the artists who actually make the music. Initially Megabox was scheduled to launch this year, but Dotcom informs TorrentFreak that it will take a few more months to get it ready.

December last year Kim Dotcom revealed his plan to put the “dinosaur record labels” out of business.

In a guest post for TorrentFreak, Dotcom said his revolutionary music platform called Megabox was about to go public, but due to a well-known intervention from the U.S. Government that launch never happened.

Dotcom, however, is not giving up that easily. With a team of developers he’s working hard to get a new Megaupload (or Mega as it’s correctly titled) as well as Megabox ready for a public release.

The separation between the two projects hasn’t been made entirely clear in the press with several news outlets reporting that Megabox will launch next month, confusing it with the new file-storage platform Mega.

However, presently there is no official launch date for Megabox.

“Megabox will launch a few months after Mega,” Dotcom informs TorrentFreak, adding that he can release no further details at the moment.

The music service is currently being developed by the Portuguese company Triworks, also featured in the teaser video below.

Megabox is coming “soonish”

When it’s released later in 2013 Megabox will give the public access to free music, while compensating artists through advertising revenue.

Dotcom believes that this “free music” business model has the potential to decrease music piracy while giving artists proper compensation for their work.

This revenue is expected to come from the Megakey application users will be required to install in exchange for free content. Megakey works like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads it replaces a small percentage with Mega’s own ads. Those who prefer not to install the app have the option to buy the music instead.

“Music will be free for users who install the Megakey App. Anyone who does not like the App can just purchase the music,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak previously.

Most of the revenue generated will go directly to the artists with Megabox keeping a small share. This fraction pales in comparison to the amounts held back by the major labels.

“These new solutions will allow content creators to keep 90% of all earnings and generate significant income from the untapped market of free downloads,” Dotcom said.

According to Dotcom there are several “top artists” lined up for the launch. Whether Megabox will be able to challenge the mighty influence of the major labels will become clear in a few months’ time.

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[calguyhunk]

Sounds deliciously interesting for everybody concerned - the creator, the consumer and the middleman. Hopefully it works out. :thumbsup:

My only concern is with privacy. God knows what that MegaKey is gonna send back to Dotcom and his Mega Servers. Dunno if I can trust somebody who has at various times been charged with serious fraud and money laundering :dunno:

[Ambrocious]

It really looks like MegaBox has soom top musicians going on......maybe more will signup with him and smash the current music label systems which rob the artists so much of thier money and talent.

[edwardecl]

Doubt it...

The music labels still own the rights to older music, which accounts for over half the music sold, I very much doubt they will lease or sell to Kim so that's 50% of people not using his service at least. Unless the artists themselves buy back the rights to their own music I really don't see how this will even dent the music industry as it is currently.

Not to mention new music kinda sucks, but who knows maybe Kim will attract some real talent that will stay loyal to the service and promote better bands than the recording industry can create.