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Megaupload coders on new website - and why they haven't spoken to Dotcom in 7 years

David Fisher
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Senior writer·NZ Herald·
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"You don't abandon your own child to raise someone else's child," says super-coder Mathias Ortmann, of Megaupload fame.

He's talking about Mega, the successor to the infamous Megaupload website brought down by the FBI in 2012. As summer that year approached, he and fellow coder Bram van der Kolk built a new cloud storage site from scratch, launching it on the anniversary of the raid.

Eighteen months later, Kim Dotcom was selling out of Mega and had a new plan.

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