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Kim Dotcom Reveals Mega Will Offer 50GB of Free Storage

Posted by timothy on from the beats-google-drive-skydrive-and-dropbox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kim Dotcom on Thursday used Twitter to reveal some interesting new tidbits in regards to his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz. Two days before the service is to go live, Doctom says he plans to offer 50GB of free storage to all members and is also working on bringing over users' Megaupload files and data, but has so far run into legal issues." To say that Kim Dotcom has "run into legal issues" is like saying that Julian Assange is having a sleepover at the Ecuadorian embassy.

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  1. Maybe the over reaching US legal hand by kawabago · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will get lopped off this time! Unfortunately there is clearly one word that defines the Obama administration, vindictive! And it isn't pretty!

    1. Re:Maybe the over reaching US legal hand by Hatta · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Anyone who still supports Obama is a full fledged authoritarian.

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    2. Re:Maybe the over reaching US legal hand by Hatta · · Score: 1, Insightful

      No, not every authoritarian supports Obama. But every Obama supporter is an authoritarian. Obama's policies are authoritarian, and if you support Obama you support his policies. If you support authoritarian policies, you are an authoritarian. QED.

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  2. Re:Woohoo piracy returns! by flayzernax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the execs at MGM, Warner, AOL, MSNBC, Sony, and all those other media corps have a right to sit on their ass playing CoD all day too? Are you one of them, worried about your monopolies? Though I think Sony is probably one of the least evil offenders in this regard, they just defend their turf enough to not get steamrolled.

    Thats just one industry, not even all of them.

    Every single thing I used mega-upload for was legit. Mods for oblivion, quake, and other gaming uses.

  3. Re:Woohoo piracy returns! by flayzernax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Use to be hosted on mega, http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/files/file/297-elsweyr-the-deserts-of-anequina/ back in the day bro. Your making a blanket assumption that Kim is an evil facilitator of destruction.

    He's just an entrepreneur with his own political motivations, ones that don't align with the people in power. His sole purpose in life is not to screw over content creators as you believe.

  4. Re:really creepy by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish these guys weren't so creepy. I find it so hard to support them when they make my skin crawl.

    Who, the US DOJ? They make my skin crawl too.

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  5. Re:Woohoo piracy returns! by psm321 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're thinking of plagiarism. Copyright infringement is infringing someone's copyright, which is their legal right to control distribution of their works. When you distribute a work in a manner that the copyright owner does not allow, you are committing copyright infringement. You should use the proper terminology instead of trying to redefine things to what you want them to mean, and then saying that those who don't agree with your redefined terms need to "learn english".