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!

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.

[PraiseBob]

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.

Except he had his personal assets seized, his companys assets destroyed, and is facing huge legal fees along with possible extradition and decades of prison time. You say he will win the legal battle, but everything done to him so far has been illegal and yet it was still done. The forces working against him don't really care about following legal procedure, they care about ruining his life. And anybody who wants to follow his business models certainly has to carefully consider how much of their own life they are putting at risk by going against the current IP circus. Or take a look at the guys from Pirate Bay, locked in cages in solitary confinement. Are they winning the fight?

I'm all for a more open internet, but your viewpoint is full of idealistic assumptions that are by no means assured.

Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win.

[AK Marc]

That's a very Machiavellian philosophy, tantamount to Realpolitik. Realpolitik is why the USA supported so many corrupt dictators and bloody warlords during the Cold War. We looked the other way when they committed human rights abuses and atrocities, because they were seen as a stabilizing influence and loyal anti-communists.

Yes, the US is embarking on another campaign to piss off the planet by causing trouble in other countries to push their agenda. We were willing to abandon all our principles when it came to fighting communism. Then again with the war on drugs. And again with the war on terrorism. And again with the war for IP. It's one of those cases where the slippery slope really did happen. If you told someone 100 years ago that the US would be spending trillions to push the corporate agenda of corporations that own nothing but ideas and sell nothing but 1s and 0s, they'd have laughed at you, and if you persisted in telling that correct future, then you'd likely have had part of your brain removed to shut up your insane rants. After all, the government isn't there to fight foreign wars for oil, or make marijuana illegal because the cotton industry found it a threat. Oh wait, it is, and it has. Too late. The only fix is a revolution, and the fat lazy American's are too happy with their bread and circuses.

Re:Ugh

[Hatta]

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

Oblig Futurama

[Revotron]

"You can't shut us down. The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas!"

Re:How long until:

[TheRaven64]

And the more important question: will he be changing his name to Kim Dotga?

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:Ugh

[BetterSense]

According the the article I read in my dead-tree Wired issue, plus speculation, the new service is going to be fully encrypted, forcing all users to encrypt their uploads so that the upload service itself cannot see what the content on its severs is, and so they have total plausible deniability, with the added bonus that the government also can't find clear-text data on their servers to incriminate them with.

This might also allow you and your trusted friends to upload anything you want, and megaupload/your ISP/the government cannot then bust you for copyright infringement or whatever, for the practical reason that they don't know what the data is. Of course this is possible now with current technology, but a cloud storage service with a good user interface with this feature 'built-in' and mandatory might be what it takes to get ordinary people to encrypt their content. Imagine Dropbox with mandatory encryption. True cypherpunks would argue that everything should have always been like this anyway.

Of course, Big Content doesn't roll over for such technicalities so I expect this to simply spawn more anti-cryptography laws.

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.

[US] is not safe for ... any business

[mounthood]

From the page on server limitations:

Unfortunately we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.

When people ask "why use me.ga?" they're going to hear the Kim DotCom story. Eventually it'll be taken for granted that Hollywood has corrupted the Justice Department. This could be the PR move that turns ordinary people against Hollywood.

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.

Re:How long until:

[Anonymous Coward]

The .ga TLD is operated by Gabon Telecom SA, which is owned by Maroc Telecom, which is owned by Vivendi SA.

Re:Have to say...

[MoaDweeb]

He DID have a safe room and went and hid. The Police enticed him out later with candy bars and threats.