Kim Dotcom Outs Mega Teaser Site, Finalizes Domain Name

hypnosec writes "Kim Dotcom has let out more information about the launch of Megaupload's successor Mega, which he claims will be 'bigger, better, faster, stronger, [and] safer.' Mega is currently looking for partners willing to provide servers, support and connectivity to become 'Mega Storage Nodes.' The prime requirement, according to Dotcom, is that the servers should be located outside the U.S. and that the companies should also be based outside of the U.S. For this reason, Dotcom has decided that the new service will be launching with 'Me.ga' domain name."

Comments

Looking forward to downloading warez & pr0n

[Anonymous Coward]

Kim,

Thanks for fighting the good fight.

Yes!

How long until:

[ledow]

"The domain name associated with the website Me.ga has been seized pursuant to an order issued by the U.S. District Court"

(or equivalent).

Re:How long until:

[ledow]

Yeah, the US would never interfere in foreign countries where they have no jurisdiction to get their hands on a suspected copyright-infringer, would they?

Gabon looks like just the kind of place that a little backhander and/or exchange of oil purchases could make anything happen.

Re:How long until:

[SuricouRaven]

In theory, yes - though it'd take some time to be implimented. It'd be a big step though, as it would undermine all trust in the DNS system, and that is something the US can't afford to do right now. The UN is already pressing for a more multinational management - an abuse of power by the US would only prove them right.

It should be obvious whos internet will win.

[Anonymous Coward]

And its not going to be "America's" internet.

We are going back to our old ways of isolating ourselves from the world because of the greed of a very few.

While Kim may be greedy and potentially an asshole, he's going to win and is playing by rules far more legitimate then our current IP circus.

To those of you in the MPAA, RIAA, and software, mobile phone, and ISP industries. You cannot fight this. Learn and adapt or you will fail while people like Kim refuse to lay down and prosper.

Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win.

[misexistentialist]

It's not like the governments of other countries are enthusiastic about an open internet.

Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win.

[houghi]

To those of you in the MPAA, RIAA, and software, mobile phone, and ISP industries. You cannot fight this.

Sure they can fight this. They have been fighting since Gutenberg. OK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law says :
Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books.
And :
Popes conceded at different times to certain printers the exclusive privilege of printing for specific terms (rarely exceeding 14 years)
That is 50 years after Gutenberg started printing.

So don't say they can't fight it. They have been fighting it for a LOT longer then you and me are around and they will continue fighting it.

Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win.

[runeghost]

Wanting to get paid for your work is not greedy. Charging many multiples of a product's 'fair market value' by leveraging legislative or other control channels you possess (aka. rent extraction), or preventing people from legally-mandated fair access to content they have bought and paid for, is both greedy and wicked.

The public does not make nice distinctions between "oh, the restrictions on this IP here are pretty reasonable while those on that IP over there are just crazy". To the vast majority of people, IP and copyright are fungible concepts that do not vary from one product or author to another. Most readers had a very good idea of what was fair (checking out a book from a library, lending it to a friend, selling it to a used bookstore) and what wasn't (printing copies of books and selling them for personal profit, stealing ideas or entire texts without attribution). Those institutions that dominated the IP regime in the United States for decades (the MPAA and the RIAA, among others) decided that they were going to play hardball and lock things down so hard that people should consider themselves fortunate to be allowed to read their own books or listen to their own music. They lost. And then they doubled-down and lost again, and again and again. Now that they've finally screwed themselves (and the basic idea of Intellectual Property among a whole generation) to the point where they can see their own deaths approaching, NOW they're suddenly crying, "Omg! Won't someone think of the poor IP creators?". (The IP creators who the corporations screw over every chance they get.)

Too bad. They blew it. Do I feel bad for those talented folks who are going to find it difficult or impossible to make a living on their work? Do I mourn the creations that might have been but now never will be? Absolutely. But the bloated corporate monstrosities that killed the very of idea of decent copyright? They can burn, and when they run up to me begging, I may laugh, but I certainly won't put the fire out, not even if it gives me a chance to piss on them.

I'll just leave your false equivalence between digital and physical goods to lie there and rot, as it deserves.

Re:Ugh

[Hatta]

I'm sick of hearing about the US projecting its bad laws outside its jurisdiction.

Re:US IP Laws

[gstoddart]

Seems like our IP laws are really helping our industries right now. Soon all data centers will be located out of the reach of *AA ?

Out of reach? Given the way the US is exporting its IP laws with some serious diplomatic pressure ... if SOCOM can rustle up someone to go in and do a raid where they're not supposed to be, I wouldn't put that past the influence of the *AAs.

American foreign policy is in large part driven by what those guys want. To the point that documents written by industry are part of governmental briefings -- even if the conclusions in the document is entirely in the service of the interests of the *AAs.

Welcome to the oligarchy. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that it's the industry calling the shots, not the government.

Re:Ugh

[funwithBSD]

Just wait until it is the UN dictating the rules.

They are already lining up "blasphemy" laws restricting free speech and eyeballing a global Internet Tax.

Huh...

[koan]

I get the feeling the RIAA, MPAA and the rest of the anti-piracy morons are holding us back, dragging us down.

At some point I stop caring about your "intellectual property" and "media licenses" and long for you to disappear.

re: encryption and legislation

[Anonymous Coward]

I just pointed out to a friend of mine in I.T., last week, that it seems odd how U.S. govt. largely forgot about their interest in controlling encryption. I mean, it wasn't THAT long ago that they were still forcing Microsoft to make a separate version of Internet Explorer because it was a federal crime to export it with 128-bit encryption capabilities in it. And remember how worked up they got over the Pretty Good Privacy software when it was first released to the public?

But despite CPUs getting many times more powerful and the "common man" encrypting things with 1024 bit encryption in many cases as default settings in programs, you don't really hear a peep out of govt. about it these days.

I have to assume this means they're capable of breaking it on-demand, so they're happy to let people use the stuff freely and get a false sense of security. Maybe there's a back-door or flaw in the math the NSA knows about, or they simply have such massive super-computer data centers at their disposal now, they can brute force break it? I don't know ... but it's HIGHLY unusual for government to just quit concerning itself with something it was really paranoid about just years earlier, when it purports to make sure they can't view the contents of communications between people.

Re:Ugh

[Hatta]

Sure, the MAFIAA can trawl file sharing sites and get the password to the key. But they can't trace it back to who uploaded it, so they can't sue you. And Mega can't know that you've posted the key, so Mega can't know what's in the encrypted file. So they can't sue Mega either.

Re:Domain name/public internet access

[kenorland]

Kim DotCom cannot get rich with Freenet or other such technologies. Whatever he (or anybody else) comes up with as a business automatically has a single point of failure: the people running it.