Mega Finds New Home, Dotcom Says

hypnosec writes "Kim Dotcom has revealed that Megaupload's successor, Mega, which is reportedly launching on January 20, 2013, will be operating through a new domain name: Mega.co.nz. Through a tweet Dotcom announced that Mega has found a new home and that the new domain name is protected by the law. Dotcom also revealed that lobbyists won't be able to do anything about this, as 'judges are not influenced by politics in New Zealand.' Recent announcements about Mega's domain — Me.ga — didn't go as planned following a decision by the Government of Gabon to suspend the domain name. Dotcom had announced at the time that despite the blockage, Mega would launch as planned."

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Mega Conz

[Culture20]

Mega CONZ... It's a TRAP! err, a Con!

Sounds like

[Konster]

Domain sounds like Mega Cons when read aloud.

Not a shock, or anything. ;)

Re:Question - "Judges are not influenced by politi

[Evardsson]

Who sets the laws in the first place and who changes laws? (Don't say "the people" you'll be modded down as mental.)

Everyone knows it's those with the cash.

Re:time machine?

[SydShamino]

We'll, it is reported to be launching on January 20, 2012. The report is just wrong.

Under the Piracy category, huh Slashdot?

[jtnix]

Despite all that has been said on this particular topic, I wonder why this is news is classified with a skull and crossbones, not under YRO, and tagged as piracy.

Re:Under the Piracy category, huh Slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Kimble was a famous pirate in the early/mid 90s (Romkids), who narced on BBS when he got caught carding. He then ran a bunch of investment scams, got busted in Germany and Hong Kong. Moved onto New Zealand after burning those bridges, ran a site that gave rewards and turned a blind eye to piracy of everything under the sun. No idea what his next venture is going to be, but the man is a pirate by reputation.

New Zealand is a good place

[tokul]

New Zealand is a good place to start new business after your business is destroyed by your arrest which occurred on some Pacific country. Could you remind me in which country you were arrested, Kim?

Re:New Zealand is a good place

[MadCow42]

And if you followed the story, his bust in NZ was NOT above board. The FBI coerced them into doing it, and taking many many shortcuts and liberties along the way, embarrassing the hell out of the NZ government and police. I'd say it's a safe bet they won't do that again. If he does get taken down again, it'll be much more carefully and LEGALLY done - and Kim I'm sure is taking close care to not step over that line (although he's mighty close to it).

Mega is different because all the content is client-side encrypted before being uploaded. Mega specifically has no access to the content or ability to filter it, and hence no responsibility for it. I'm sure they'll comply with takedown notices too. The liability is on the user, as it should be - otherwise the Cloud business model is already dead.

MadCow.

Re:Question - "Judges are not influenced by politi

[e3m4n]

no no no.. its called "The Golden Rule"

he who has the gold makes the rules

Re:Mega Cons?

[e3m4n]

next thing you know its going to be a full fledged vegas convention with all kinds of weirdo's dressed in costume!

Being sanguine about democracy

[concealment]

Who sets the laws in the first place and who changes laws?

The politicians who receive the most votes.

That means "the people," through their delegates.

Re:Being sanguine about democracy

[Hognoxious]

Classical Athens had a real democracy, where citizens voted

For sufficiently unpoor and non-female values of "citizens".

Governments can do whatever the hell they want

[NewtonsLaw]

Back in 2003, I built the world's first DIY cruise missile in a garage here in New Zealand.

When the media found out, they approached the government for comment and the Prime MInister of the day (Helen Clark) admitted that in doing this, I had broken no laws.

Well when the US government found out what I'd been doing they were outraged and intense pressure was applied to the NZ government to shut down this low-cost-cruise-missile project.

But how could they do that? -- after all, the PM had admitted I'd broken no laws in doing so.

Well as we all (now) know, governments can do any damned thing they want and if they can't achieve their ends by fair means, they'll use foul ones.

As a result, they "Caponed" me and used the NZ equivalent of the IRS to bankrupt me by coming up with all manner of "assessed" tax liabilities and breaching an agreement I already had in place.

A local TV current affairs program did a piece on my plight:

Part 1
Part 2

and you can see from that, just how governments are able to sidestep or force the courts to do whatever they want -- when there's an agenda involved.

So Kim Dotcom ought to be very careful -- who knows what a savage dog will do when you back it into a corner?

I've written a book about this chapter (and others) of my life but suffice to say I have had some issues with publishers who don't want to get involved in a case where it's obvious that the rulebook gets tossed out the door in favor of covering asses at high levels.

Re:Question - "Judges are not influenced by politi

[Tom]

Is it possible we should think of something similar in representative democracies? What if there were a provision to allow the creation of agents with agendas?

It's called a political party.

Yes, I know the current party system is deeply flawed. But what you describe is the idea of political parties, plain and simple.

There is also a more modern system with a more fine-grained and fluid agency system like this, invented by the Pirate Party, called Liquid Democracy. GIYF.