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Under US Pressure, PayPal Stops Working With Mega

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-wouldn't-download-a-car dept.

New submitter seoras sends news that PayPal is now refusing to handle payments for Mega, Kim Dotcom's cloud storage service. A report (PDF) issued in September of last year claimed Mega and other "cyberlocker" sites made a great deal of illicit money off piracy. Mega disputes this, of course, and says the report caused U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy to pressure credit card companies to stop working with Mega. Those companies then pressured PayPal to stop as well. The hosting company claims, "MEGA provided extensive statistics and other evidence showing that MEGA’s business is legitimate and legally compliant. After discussions that appeared to satisfy PayPal’s queries, MEGA authorised PayPal to share that material with Visa and MasterCard. Eventually PayPal made a non-negotiable decision to immediately terminate services to MEGA."

3 of 136 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What presure? by MobSwatter · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh crap, my bank website uses encryption, paypal uses encryption. Windows uses encryption. Politicians use encryption, the media uses encryption, the NSA uses encryption. Humans use encryption.

    There can be only one logical answer.

    ENCRYPTION IS A TERRORIST! AND THEY ARE ALL TERRORISTS SYMPATHIZERS!

  2. Re:this is one more reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, we could always start a movement to pressure anks to stop doing business with Senator Leahy or his campaign, etc....

  3. it must be working by burne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because I moved all my stuff from dropbox to mega, a few minutes ago.