01-20-2013, 03:05 AM | #1 |
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Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' goes live
"A year after file-storage site MegaUpload was brought down by U.S. law enforcement officials targeting piracy, flamboyant founder Kim DotCom has cut the ribbon on his new site, Mega.
"As of this minute one year ago #Megaupload was destroyed by the US Government. Welcome to http://Mega.co.nz," DotCom tweeted today. Not long after, he followed up with a tweet trumpeting what he said was the site's immediate popularity: "Site is extremely busy. Currently thousands of user registrations PER MINUTE .... " "users will get 50GB of storage for free, the infamous entrepreneur tweeted today. DotCom also tweeted that his lawyers are working on giving former premium users their premium statuses on the new site but that the site "can't at this time." 50GB is a huge amount of free storage right off the bat. DotCom's tweet comes a day after another cloud storage service, MediaFire, announced it would be offering 50GB of free storage .... " http://news.cnet.com/8300-5_3-0.html?keyword=kim+dot |
01-20-2013, 03:21 AM | #2 |
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My view? If it's legal it's legal, and by golly there'll be lots of people testing its legality.
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01-20-2013, 05:02 AM | #3 |
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the wonder of science
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01-20-2013, 06:36 AM | #4 |
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Hmmmmm....
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Curious about the technical aspects... the site loads *very* fast for me. They are using a geo-DNS routed content delivery network, so ping times are excellent no matter where you're located. IP owner is the Internet Registry for Africa.
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01-20-2013, 08:28 AM | #6 |
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The new service has nothing to do with legality. It is about hiding the data from the service provider, so that they can deny knowledge of illegal activities, and making it difficult for law enforcement to collect evidence.
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I find their requirement that you submit what you wite using their API to them for review a bit odd, and think that will limit the use of it a lot more then they obviously do.
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I am aware of Wuala, and SpiderOak that also strive to do this. Does anyone know of more? I did not put the refer a friend links as I think they are not allowed not in the message body (even though technically they are not affiliate links), however using one would give you more storage, so pm me if you want one. BTW, does anyone know of a chart of storage servers that includes the time duration you can have between logins without risking your data being wiped? Last edited by twobits; 01-20-2013 at 11:12 AM. |
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01-20-2013, 10:44 AM | #9 |
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That's a very narrow view to take. If they have no knowledge of the uploaded contents, and in fact no way of knowing, it 's no longer their problem. Would you blame the USPS or Fedex for delivering illegal substances, threatening letters or similar?
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01-20-2013, 11:05 AM | #11 |
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I agree with you. If Dotcom is ever prosecuted for the old megaupload, the judge or jury will need to make a judgement, based on evidence, as to whether the cyberlocker contents were in fact commonly infringing, and whether he knew this. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 01-20-2013 at 11:36 AM. |
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01-20-2013, 11:25 AM | #13 |
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Probably. If they were specifically created for those purposes.
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01-20-2013, 12:29 PM | #14 |
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But that's exactly the point, they are not. Will those services be used for files that infringe on third party's copyright? Of course, but there are a lot of legitimate use cases as well. How, exactly, does Mega differ from Rapidshare (who really got its act together recently, or so I hear), or, dare I say it, Dropbox? All those services can be abused, but all serve a legal purpose.
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^^^ Pretty much what one of KimDotCom's attorney's taunted.
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