(NO IDEA ON THE SOURCE OF THIS, NOT MINE)
The “Megakey business model” was adware on people’s computers that replaced legit ads on sites with their own so they could make more money off of piracy. Megakey was actually an existing, but what they were doing was hijacking your computer to make money off any site you visited that had ads on it.
If you went to VGChartz, for example, it would block the the ads and replace them with MU ads, so Dotcom and crew would get paid for you reading the site instead of Brett.
Also, your source there is an article quoting only the owner of MU, a criminal convicted multiple times of computer fraud, making untested and unverified claims.
Here is an Ars Technica article that looks at the unsealed indictment from federal court and lays out what the U.S. is accusing MU of:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars
In other words: Megabox was also fraud.
No one should feel sorry for this idiot:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/mega-man-the-bizarre-rise-and-sudden-downfall-of-kim-dotcom.ars
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