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community website Torrent Freak. "Gin’s voice is special; she could be the next Amy Winehouse. She seemed excited too. At least that’s what she texted me after the recording session. She was hopeful that we got something we could work with. The following day I received a call from her manager telling me we couldn’t use Gin’s voice."

Dotcom dropped Wigmore’s vocal and hired Grammy-nominated Macy Gray to sing. Gray, Printz Board and Dotcom share vocal credits for the song.

A light, fluffy pop number, it extols the benefits of using Megaupload, championed by some of the recording industry’s biggest stars. There was Printz Board and Macy Gray, but Dotcom also secured Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, three-times Grammy-winning rapper and hip hop star P Diddy, Kanye West (among the biggest selling digital artists in the world), Grammy winner Chris Brown, Academy Awward and Grammy-winning actor and singer Jamie Foxx, socialite Kim Kardashian, singer and entrepreneur Lil John, Grammy Award-winning The Game, world-champion boxer and five-division title holder Floyd Mayweather, tennis great Serena Williams and Grammy-winning singer Ciara.

It was a Who’s Who of entertainment and sporting royalty. On the day the song was released, Torrent Freak declared it a "stunning PR coup" and "a huge feather in the cap of Megaupload". In an interview with Torrent Freak, Dotcom talked about the impact he intended the Mega family of businesses to have on how people accessed entertainment. He said "Megabox" would be used for "free musical premium content" and "Megamovie" would have "free premium movies". The sites would be funded by Megakey — software which stripped out embedded advertisements to make way for Mega-linked advertising, sold to fund the free content.

The Megaupload song was uploaded to YouTube for viewing. Dotcom told Torrent Freak: "The song, the lyrics and the video took a lot of love and time to make. I learned that I can be creative and be good at it and I am looking forward to doing more creative work in the future." Torrent Freak asked Dotcom of the threat posed by the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. Dotcom told Torrent Freak he wasn’t worried. "We are a legitimate online service provider."

The Megaupload SONG was an easy viral hit which was later said to have cost $3 million to make. The link was trending on Twitter, and the YouTube views begin to click over then rapidly escalate. Torrent Freak

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