The shutdown of file-hoster Megaupload.com and arrest of founder Kim DotCom was a shocker. Now while the trial is still underway, Kim DotCom is all determined to give anti-piracy agencies future sleepless nights with his promise for a new API which would make file-sharing, safe, easy and private.

Tweeting “They abused the wrong guy. I am going to turn this world upside down. Power to the people. Bye bye Echelon." (Echelon - a secret government operated global digital spying network), in further tweets Kim DotCom revealed his plans for an API which seems to offer developers power to create file-sharing applications which would use storage and bandwidth of globally distributed servers with on-the-fly encryption, ensuring complete privacy from government agencies.

Developers get ready. The Mega API will provide incredible powers. Our API and your Mega tools will change the world.

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 28, 2012

We are building a massive global network. All non-US hosters will be able to connect servers & bandwidth. Get ready.

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 28, 2012

The new Mega will offer one-click-encryption of ALL your data transfers, on the fly, easy to use, free of charge, TOTAL PRIVACY!

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 28, 2012

One of the most popular online file-hosting/content-locker service Megaupload.com had their servers searched and employees arrested in New Zealand, on January 19 on copyright infringement accounts. To users bad-luck, millions of user-accounts also got locked with this seizure without any possible way to retrieve their files, now there is some ray of hope to legitimate users having non-copyright infringing files in there accounts as Megaupload's hosting company "Carpathia" teams up with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to identify legal files and help users retrieve them before all illegal content is purged from the seized servers.

We have shared lots of services and tools facilitating hassle free downloads from one-click file hosters like LeechPack, RDesc, Mipony, RSFind, FreeRapid, Tucan Manager, Rapidshare Auto Downloader, Rapidshare Plus, Instant Megaupload Download, CryptoLoad, RapidShare Inspector and RapidLeecher etc., many of these tools are now obsolete and have been replaced by all-in-one tools capable of downloading from many services.

Free and open-source utility Megaupload Downloader is one such software designed to let users download files, easily and without limits from file-hosting sites like Megaupload, Rapidshare, Mediafire, EasyShare, DivShare, Uploaded.to, Youtube, Vimeo, MegaVideo and many others.

Megaupload Downloader is as easy to use as it can get, everything is automated once links get copied to the utility, add to that various service plugins are available for users to expand the supported service list. If this is not enough the utility also supports downloading videos from sites like Veoh, Megavideo and YouTube.

File-sharing service Megaupload forces free-downloader's to enter image-verification code and wait for 45 seconds to download the file, we had shared many tips, tricks and tools to bypass this limitation but all of them are obsolete now.

Today I am going to share a wonderful, fast and simple way to bypass megaupload limitation allowing you to download files as premium users even with your download manager.

There are quite a few decent automated downloaders supporting simultaneous downloads from various file-sharing services like RDesc and Tucan, but all new Java based multi-platform FreeRapid Downloader would be one of the best multi-service downloader we have ever came across, supporting fully automated downloads from 87 file-sharing services like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire and Hotfile to name a few.

The utility supports plugin based architecture allowing easy expansion of supported file-hosters and comes equipped with features like support for proxy lists, download history, smart clipboard monitoring, simple CAPTCHA recognition, automated plugin updates, multi-language support and interface skins.