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Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain"

Posted by Unknown on from the everyone-loves-racketeers-this-year dept.

hypnosec writes "Kim Dotcom's plan to launch a 'bigger, better, faster, stronger, safer' Megaupload successor, Mega, is already in peril as Gabon's government has suspended the domain me.ga . Announcing his decision, Gabon's Communication Minister Blaise Louembe said 'I have instructed my departments... to immediately suspend the site www.me.ga' in a bid to 'protect intellectual property rights' and 'fight cyber crime effectively.' Dotcom revealed through a tweet that he is in possession of an alternative domain name and that the recent suspension 'demonstrates the bad faith witch hunt the U.S. government is on.'"

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  1. Re:1000 times bigger than Mega? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Informative

    1024 times to be precise ;)

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  2. Re:Rich Gabon by Hentes · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have enough oil not to care about a website. They don't want to piss off one of the biggest oil importer.

  3. Re:Witch-hunt by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...and no real surprise given Gabons political history of servitude to foreign interests under the PDG.

  4. Re:1000 times bigger than Mega? by agentgonzo · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK, since you're a bit thick, I'll explain it to you slowly.
    It was a joke. Of course gi.ga is under the same TLD as me.ga. That's part of why it was funny.

  5. Re:Welcome to obamaworld by alexgieg · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am certain that Romney would make it his first act in the office to loosen the copyright/IP witchhunt. It was totally the election between pro-buisness Obama vs the liberal candidate Romney

    These elections are never a choice between a pro-business and an "anti-business" (?) candidate. Choosing between one and the is at best prioritizing which set of corporations will be in the front row and which one will get the afterthought treatment: the oil and military ones with Republicans, or the MAFIAA with Democrats. As things are, the MAFIAA got 4 more years of preeminence.

    That isn't to mean Romney would have stopped the witchhunt. He just wouldn't "care" as much about it as Obama.

    Should have worked harder to elect someone like Ron Paul.

    Well, you *do* know that most libertarians are anti-IP, right? We understand all IP to be government interfering with our private property.

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