Kim Dotcom has Hollywood studios begging Google to censor new Mega service

Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file hosting service has gotten the attention of Hollywood. Warner Bros. and NBC Universal have asked Google to remove Mega from its search results, claiming that it is hosting copyrighted content on its servers. Dotcom responded to the requests in a statement to TorrentFreak, calling it the requests the same “unreasonable content industry behavior” he has had to endure for years. He still blames Hollywood for shutting down his Megaupload service in 2012, which he believes is “the ultimate illegal takedown by the content industry.” Google hasn’t yet complied with the requests and the Mega domain remains visible in its search results. Dotcom notes that a number of these requests are false alarms, often resulting from



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