Kim Dotcom Avoids “Unsafe” .Com, Picks Me.Ga for New Megaupload

Ernesto
November 1, 2012
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Kim Dotcom has continued to supply more details on his new Megaupload project which is set launch early next year. Today he reveals that the new service will operate on the Gabon-based domain name ME.GA. In addition, Dotcom warns other cloud storage sites that it’s not safe to host their services in the United States, or use .com and .net domains.

Despite ongoing criminal proceedings Kim Dotcom and his team are gearing up to launch a new Megaupload, which will simply be called “Mega”.

The spin-off is set to launch on January 20, exactly one year after Megaupload was shut down. According to Dotcom the new Mega will be bigger, better, and protected against the wrath of the U.S. Department of Justice.

In previous weeks the eccentric file-sharing entrepreneur has revealed many details on how the new Megaupload will operate, but until now the site’s new domain has remained a secret. Megaupload.com is definitely unavailable as it remains seized by the U.S. Government.

Today Dotcom ends the speculation.

The new Mega will operate from the Gabonese domain Me.Ga. With just 98,800 Internet users in a population of 1.6 million, the African country is a small player on the Internet, but this is about to change.

In addition to avoiding domain names that are under control of the U.S., Dotcom also notes that the new Mega won’t partner with American hosting providers.

“Unfortunately we can’t work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload.”

In a notice, ironically hosted on Kim.com, Dotcom also advises other cloud hosting providers to stay away from the U.S. and refrain from operating domains that are controlled by American companies.

“It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.”

Megaupload’s founder is referring to the many domain name seizures carried out since 2010 by the Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE unit. Some of these domains were seized by “mistake” and were later returned.

By avoiding .com Dotcom hopes that the new Mega will be able to operate undeterred. Whether the new service can live up to the high expectations remains to be seen, but Mega’s founder is Me..Ga.. excited.

“The return of the Jedi – May the Force be with us,” he concludes.

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thedude321

I quite like the name! :D I am sure most people will too! XD
- Bananas
  
  And how safe is a domain in such small African country?
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    Safer by far than what you’d think.
    
    How safe is a bank account in the seychelles?
    - Punko
      
      If we are to give Wikipedia any credibility, .ga TLD is run by Gabon’s now privatized phone company, owned by Maroc Telecom, which in turn is controlled by the french company Vivendi, a telecommunication-media conglomerate. You might also have heard about Vivendi-Universal. Way to go, fatso.
      
      While any domain dispute would be run under Gabon’s jurisdiction, a small african state wouldn’t need more than a wink from big brother U.S. to shutdown the site. See the recent Cambodia vs. Sweeden TPB fiasco. Well, U.S vs. Gabon is like 100x that, and US is major oil importer from Gabon:
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon-United_States_relations
      
      Much better choices would be Russian Chinese Swiss (wikileaks), Venezuelean (Chavez), or Iranian domains. Neutral, large or american-hating countries. Have 10 or 20 such TLDs, advertise all, and you are bulletproof against any raid or take-down.
    - USICEWILLKILLAGAIN
      
      @Punko: Got it spot on. Don’t think Fatso has done the proper research into domain TLD’s and who it is owned by. MAFIAA is just going to flick the switch on this domain.
    - Andrew Lee
      
      @Punko What does him being fat have to do with lack of research? If you insist on call him names you should do some research of your own on the word fatso that has nothing to do with research.
      If you were to call him anything it would be moron… I won’t even say that Dotcom is a moron because anyone that can make the kind of money he has is anything but.
      
      Don’t get me wrong I agree with what you are saying about the .ga TLD. Although I think Dotcom has already been attacked enough by my moronic government. The DOJ should just change its name to RIAA and we can rename our country to The Corporate States of Fuck The Little Guy.
    - Guest
      
      @Punko, getting an Iranian domain would be incredibly stupid. They are soon to disconnect from the Internet and copy North Korea with a national Intranet. And the Mullahs wouldn’t be too happy about all that western media, pornography, etc, that can be accessed via a file hosting site.
      
      Safest places are Russia and China, and they aren’t very safe at all.
  - Witherror
    
    it is such a small country that a little ‘finacial aid’ from the US would have him in handcuffs
- Guest
  
  Kim DotGaga
Techanon

There existed a .ga domain????????
- S-S
  
  Do you really exist?
- http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
  
  Emphasize confusion. Use 8 question marks.
Techanon

btw. who else foresaw this choise of domain name?
Furious Canadian

What a great kick to the DoJ ball’s!

***if there have any balls ;)
- Dondilly
  
  The very name DoJ is becoming part of the Orwellian nightmare where government departments purpose is the direct opposite of their name. Just like the DoD has little or nothing to do with defense and in the past decade been wholly engaged in 2 pre-emptive illegal wars and currently engages on a daily basis in drone strikes on innocent Pakistani civilians and border guards.
  - Furious Canadian
    
    We must be informed about this, and wikileaks is here for this.
    
    God bless wikileaks, we can have some truth about dafuq is going on.
    
    However what’s worst is that americans wanna kill Assange, they want his head.
    - Notmyemail
      
      Not all of us.most of us in the U.S. knows our government does terrible things in the “shadows” we just don’t what, or to what extent. Our media and corporate bought officials may feel that way , but I think by and large the general population want more information on what our government is up to.We are tired of being fed government talking points thru our media.Give Julian Assange safe passage to Ecuador and Free Private Manning.
    - Asdfth12
      
      Sadly though, Wikileaks can only report on the stuff that is leaving some form of paper trail.
      
      I’m willing to bet that their are a number of undocumented operations going on, much worse then what we have so far seen.
NoSpam

Guess he’ll b changing his name to Kim Me.ga?
- Danny
  
  was it ‘Kim Megaupload.com’ before?
  - Guest321
    
    I suppose Kim Dotga would be more apt.
    - guest
      
      what about Kim Dotgad (lowercase a sound)
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CH76QIKXYIFA2FZ2DXC6NUZ24A Andrei
    
    I think it was Kim “Megaupload” Dotcom
    - Violated0
      
      Who are you? Kim Dotcom has never been known that way and only the DoJ & FBI would desire such so they can serve notice to an alias.
- OccamsKatana
  
  He might have to since the mighty US thinks it can seize any .com domain. They’ll go after him because he has Dotcom as his surname. LOL!
  - Tranz
    
    I happen to work for the one company that is licensed by ICANN as the .com, .net registery. We get thousands of .com take downs and seizures weekly.
Fish

So will the users who paid for “Lifetime” memberships be given premium accounts?

Please, if someone from TorrentFreak reads this, please ask Mr Dotcom? Thank you!
- Anyone
  
  yes, he said so before
Fish

sorry, should have typed Megaupload users
DrDavidKellysCorpse

“It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net.”
It is if you kick up every single piece of data to the intelligence services…..Here’s looking @ you google, apple, facebook, icann.
The only safe harbour is one without resources, failing that, a false harbour
- Anon
  
  Bet MI6 /The Mossad/BND and C.I.A are so interested in your furry porn , bet they cant contain themselves at times.
  - https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
    
    Ironically they usually are, as they consider ‘cub porn’ to be child porn and otherwise furry porn bestiality and the like.
    
    Sexual preferences aside, it actually hits a much deeper level of problem, being that governments tend to regard certain bits of information equally as dangerous as the actual actions that flow forth from the information. e.g knowing how to make a bomb would be considered as dangerous as making a bomb.
    With the coming of the internet, information simply cannot be contained anymore, and the people cannot be kept stupid anymore. This is going to be a fight that’s might even get bigger than the whole copyright/intellectual property thing.
    - Glib
      
      The US would beg to differ about keeping people stupid. They have a great system of having very smart people doing great things, while ~75% of the population being fucking idiots … this is why their voted in officials are ‘tards.
  - Not Anon
    
    So I suppose since you aren’t interested in privacy nobody else should be either.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    The big question you are raising is this: If you think common privacy is nonsense, why are you calling yourself “Anon”?
    
    Or is it as usual with you just a question of one principle for you and another for the rest?
adude

GO KIM DOTCOM!
LyleD

I’ve said it before so I’ll say it again.. The USA is Toxic when it comes to Internet businesses… The quicker people get out and stop doing business there the quicker we’ll have a really open Internet…
Coast2

will you be able to use the website if you live in the USA?
- Guest
  
  I think you can.
- Anyone
  
  most likely yes
- Violated0
  
  I would not be so sure. Serving US customers was the reason they went after some EU gambling sites.
  
  He may well want to cut off all US links to minimise US problems but that we don’t yet know.
  - ChangeIP
    
    Even if he does block customers from the U.S from using his website it does not mean we can’t change our IP address’s to a EU IP of some sort. Have you ever heard of the words proxy and VPN?
    - Violated0
      
      That was not the question. Mega desiring to block US citizens, or not, is not changed by the ability to VPN around it.
      
      Then as it happens I a UK citizen have been doing much VPN links to the US recently to make use of the US Netflix service. Even my 50GB monthly limit does not go that far in streaming much HD video but then I have been making use of the UK service in the rare case it has the media I desire.
- lattari
  
  I hope not. It would be lovely to get some backlash for all the shit that levitates from there.
Guest

I wonder what the MPAA, DOJ, US government etc. are feeling right now about this. I can hear the cogs whirl round in their heads with trying to think of a way to get this shutdown. I wonder what pressure/sanctions the US are now going to do to Gabon in order to get them to seize and shutdown the domain name. Good luck to the new Mega and I hope it remains as elusive to the US government as The Pirate Bay.
- Colin Carr
  
  Carrier battle group offshore, Fast jets beating up the Gabon countryside…
http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/ SJD

Well, .kh TLD was also considered safe… #morningsceptic
- Guest
  
  Pretty sure Kim has spread his net wide this time and that backup servers are spread here-there-and-everywhere.
  
  Good luck to him.
Nasuno

Love Kim but I bet he feels conflicted about his own name now.
- adude
  
  I am sure he will change his name. Kim Dot Ga?
IHaveNoBalls

I can’t wait to start re-uploading all my shit. It will be a good feeling knowing the DOJ hasn’t as much power as they’de hope :D
- Anyone
  
  he marries lady gaga and becomes kim.gaga
  - 7th_Guest
    
    That was hysterical. Now go play in traffic.
Violated0

I am still doubtful to TF’s claims that this is the new MegaUpload when other news sites have not been supporting this claim. Also Kim Dotcom has made very clear that MegaUpload would not return until this DoJ case has been concluded.

So this website sounds more like MegaEncryptedBackup to me where it would not be much benefit to the file-sharing community if sharing is not enabled. I have no idea about that when I have seen no details one way or the other.

Welcome to the club Kim Dotcom when I have been telling people for many years to not use US hosting services. The US Government prying though all your files and communication is one reason but their modern total abuse of the law is another. As there are plenty of friendly countries around to welcome your hosting then you have no excuse and we should always remember to add an encryption level.

I am most happy to see Kim fight back when a strong offence is indeed the best defence and to go on business as usual shows them they made no gain.
- Anyone
  
  if you looked at the me.ga site you’d see sharing specifically mentioned
  - Anyone
    
    “including cross-account folder sharing for easy online collaboration.”
  - Violated0
    
    When I visit me.ga I always end up at kim.com/mega/ which only seems to mention transferring and not sharing. Still it is nice to know we can move files from one person to another.
    
    Encrypting files in your browser prior upload removes all possibility of Mega scanning uploaded files for infringement. It seems to me he is totally abandoning DMCA law when it would violate other laws for Mega to open encrypted files even if someone did pass them the key.
    
    I doubt Kim Dotcom has gone insane and would allow Hollywood’s latest movies to be shared but just maybe the DoJ and FBI have really pissed him off that much to declare technological warfare.
    
    I think they should be scared when January 20 comes about when his cooperation days seem over and he is now on share what you want as he runs on high grade butt protection.
    - SamTheWhiteVanMan
      
      DMCA Laws only apply to domains and servers hosted in the US. By moving it all out of the US jursidiction he doesn’t need to comply to DMCA requests anyway ;)
    - Violated0
      
      While that is true many foreign companies do still comply with DMCA law when it has largely been a standard of fairness and with added safety for them.
      
      I fear this new me.ga site is a turning point that will one day render the DMCA law obsolete. Encryption is the future for users and sites alike and where Mega begins many other sites should follow.
      
      The DoJ and FBI have badly damaged DMCA safe-harbour protection and the things they now say in this case should be very concerning to cloud storage services and their users alike. Businesses love to be safe and protected under the law and where it would prove very tempting to step up their game with hard encrypted storage.
      
      Due to the MPAA and RIAA’s aggression they are likely to lose out big time when their checking of encrypted files will become painstakingly slow and there are a whole batch of laws to face concerning unauthorised access to protected secure files. So in the future if they sue people for infringement and those same people can sue back for hacking, computer misuse, wire fraud and such.
    - Tanker
      
      “Encrypting files in your browser prior upload removes all possibility of Mega scanning uploaded files for infringement.”
      
      Maybe, maybe not. If javascript is involved I would not consider the service secure. I would like to see Mega release an open source stand alone app for the encryption instead of using the browser ( but I can’t see him being that concerned with security of the users data, just plausable deniability for his business and partners. Go on Kim, prove me wrong! )
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  “it would not be much benefit to the file-sharing community if sharing is not enabled.” Surely it will? The filesharing option is very important otherwise how would people send files to people that don’t have access to their account, i don’t think he’d leave it out. I hope not
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Violated is stupid. They have already said that yes, there WILL be filesharing capability, you will just have to share the encryption key as well in order to share with other people.
  - sandyaj
    
    it sounds a lot of what like streamload.com had before they started trying to modernize and then shut themselves out of business…..and made tons of users lose much of thier archives before allowing users to go on one final download free for all before shutting thier doors.
- Guest
  
  The DOJ claim that Dotcom may be in breech of his bail conditions if he launches a new Megaupload because he stated that he wouldn’t return or re launch the company until the case has been concluded. Well how can Dotcom return or relaunch Megaupload before the case has concluded when the US government have completely seized the company and refuses to release it. It is totally stupid of the DOJ to even claim that more charges will be brought against Dotcom if he goes ahead and (re)launches Megaupload whilst he is on bail. The new Mega is a completely new business but the DOJ will no doubt make a complete nuclear uproar with insisting that this is just a (re)launch of Megaupload and will no doubt get the prosecutors in NZ to bring more charges ie. breeching bail conditions with this. I am sure that Dotcom with his lawyers will have made absolutely certain and sure that this new Mega business will not be in breech of any bail conditions before the go ahead of starting the new Mega business and I hope that this will all back fire and blow up in the DOJ and NZ prosecutors face if/should they try and bring any charges of breech of bail conditions against Dotcom.
  - Glib
    
    He’s not bringing back Megaupload, he’s creating a new business. That’s the stupid thing about the restriction they put on Megaupload / Kim. Had they said something to the effect of “no storage site”, they’d have been ok. However, as long as he starts something that isn’t called Megaupload, he’s basically ok. I mean, a website is just some code and servers, technically nothing is “the same” as anything else, as long as the code is different.
    
    Samsung has proven this stupidity many times: sales of Fancyphone 3 FTL banned, so they release a Fancyphone 4 FTW that doesn’t have the infringing features of the first one and sell it without issue. Megaupload just needs not to operate a service called Megaupload.
senvooo

Dude is insane. Think he needs to have another cheeseburger or 10.

http://www.anon-e.tk
GrumpyGit78

‘In an interview with Reuters, Mr Dotcom suggested that content owners might even get direct access to users’ uploaded files “if they agree not to make us responsible for actions of users”.’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20165657

really??
- Guest
  
  Dotcom gave certain movie studios direct access to the Megaupload system before whereby they could delete the infringing files themselves but still Megaupload was shutdown over infringement. Hope this time around they don’t turn around and sue him.
  - lattari
    
    I sincerely hope he doesn’t do it. It certainly didn’t help him last time. The only reason to do it is to appease the enemy; I’d rather have him stick it to them. After all, they did destroy his first business and still try to get him locked in prison.
  - Guest
    
    That’s the US justice system for you, retarded as fuck, they break the law by shutting down megaupload whilst they were protected by DMCA safe habor, but the US justice system are a law to themselves and we must go against that by voting obama OUT OF OFFICE.
Rabba

Correct me if im wrong – but Regardless of where the jurisdiction is based off a Domain name .com , .net ,.ws , .ga , etc etc – If you look from the Main Source where everything is being created – Guess where it originates from? The one and only United States of America – Guess what company is in there? ICANN – Guess what ICANN does? – ICANN is what allows us to create Domain names through the internet – Every Domain Registra – Reseller – no matter what domain extension you get – It still comes back to the ICANN – Guess how Wikileaks got shutdown? Sure it was hosted in the UK which isnt in the jurisdiction of the USA – But Guess what was? the Domain Name of wikileaks – Guess where the USA Gov got it shutdown at ? ICANN – So all users had to MANUALLY type in the IP addresses of the servers that corresponded to Wikileaks – So what im trying to say is – Any Domain Extension can be shut down by the United States – U want to make it secure? Go buy a server in china with no domain name and use only the IP address – Whola – Meh Fucking stupid ass r-tards on the internet now days – F*n skids
- Guset
  
  I’m correcting you, because you’re wrong.
  - Rabba
    
    i looked below to find your post as to why im wrong – You Never posted only provided a Hypothesis – Please dont say im wrong without providing any facts or information -I said Correct me if im wrong – indeed but do give an explanation – From what i can tell your statement is in-evident
- Glib
  
  Problem with IPs is, if you move the server, you kill your service. DNS serves a very nice purpose, one that should not be allowed to be used to bust the internet for no reason.
- Anonymous
  
  Oh I can just see it all now the Russians “appealing” to the U.S all because of some domain names. lmfao get real
- Bananas
  
  I think the domain security was just bravata against USA….
- WbW
  
  You are wrong. The USA government only has the authority to seize domains of .us, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, and other generic TLDs. This is precisely the reason why they tried to get SOPA passed… because all of those non-US domains like .ru, .se, .ua, etc. are untouchable to the DHS/ICE because it’s out of their jurisdiction. Just look at all of the DHS/ICE domain seizures to date… NONE of them have been foreign domains. The only way to get a foreign domain name taken down is through international cooperation from the country that’s administering it.
  
  In your example of Wikileaks, last time I checked wikileaks.org is still up and running. Since it is a .org it is under US jurisdiction, and therefore yes – it COULD get seized by the government if they chose to do so. However, if it was wikileaks.uk, then the US would try to pressure them, but ultimately it would be the responsibility of the United Kingdom to implement the seizure/takedown.
  - Slimjimslim
    
    .info and .org is unseizable look at icefilms.info and warez-bb.org
http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

ga is Gabon tld. There are lots of tld you never heard of.
Pretty nice choice. It’s short and and out of usa bitches’ reach. at least out of direct control
Kila

Sorry I can’t masturbate to this..
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http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

It would be safe if America adhered to the laws that they passed. The DMCA specifically absolves ALL companies of liability if they adhere to the DMCA “notice and removal if no counternotice” scheme.

The whole MegaUpload takedown was a clusterfuck of obscene proportions and still is growing.
http://www.facebook.com/steffany.kellam Steffany Kellam

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cog

go to Me.Ga and it transitions to
http://kim.com/mega/
so how is this safe? it’s still .com
- Violated0
  
  I am sure the me.ga domain will be very operational on January 20, 2013 once this new website actually opens. They only provide some information for now.
  - Guest
    
    January 19
    - Anyone
      
      depending on timezones
    - Violated0
      
      OK I fixed it. I was just quoting The Telegraph and other news sites where they stated the 20th. I guess they adjusted for the time-zone.
- GrumpyGit78
  
  When I first went to me.ga I noticed the status “waiting for kim.com…”
  
  I half expected a full size mugshot of the man himself! xD
- xmichaelx
  
  You know the site hasn’t actually launched yet, right? There’s nothing to be safe *from* until the site is functional.
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Vincent Giannell

I don’t think the other sites would care if .com and .net are “unsafe”.
Asashii Fustazi

i am sorry but he is just now figured out not to use a .com or .net, well yeah if you are hosting pirated material who didnt know that, and this guy is suppose to be some kind messiah or something, dont use a public website for your illegal shite and you would less likely have such problems, dot-dumbass looks like he hasnt missed any meals!
- Anyone
  
  Megaupload was perfectly legal
  if the DoJ followed their own laws it would still be up and running
- Violated0
  
  YouTube.COM host much pirated material and they are not that much different from MegaUpload. As the US would never touch their beloved YouTube then this is all a case of who is in the club and who their rivals are.
  
  All third generation user generated content sites are at risk.
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  Q: “well yeah if you are hosting pirated material who didnt know that”,
  A: Youtube
  lol
Anon

Much depends on whether the new Mega’s underlying premise is perceived as infringement by its users and observers. The governments are making quite clear facilitation will be illegal going forward and those involved in serving infringement will be apprehended and punished. If DotCom’s predicament isn’t clear, consider Gottfrid Svartholm.

Maybe pirates will finally get it that government and industry will define taking without paying as a form of digital theft and piracy will cease compromising our freedoms. Maybe the appeal of getting stuff for nothing will prove too great for pirates to resist and we’ll have government up our asses for piracy’s greedy selfishness. Either way it’s a pleasure watching folks trying to find ways around existing law while governments pass new laws in reaction. You get free stuff by copying without paying. They get to hold you in solitary confinement.

That seems about right. :-)
- Guest
  
  Getting around law? By your own admission, Anon, PIRATES HAVE BEEN BREAKING LESS LAW IN THE PAST DECADE. Make up your bloody mind when you decide to critcise everybody – or did all that industry white chocolate go to your head?
  
  Good luck trying to campaign against data storage capability. Hell, you’d campaign against electricity if you had to.
- Guest
  
  Gottfrid Svartholm was kidnapped for allegedly hacking Logica, not for facilitating copyright infringement. So your “point” is invalid. Big surprise there.
  
  MegaUpload was legal, DMCA compliant, and gave rights-holders the power to directly delete infringing user files. What the U.S. government has made clear is that they don’t give a fuck about their own safe harbour laws and will take down a fully legal service if their copyright industry masters tell them to.
  
  Which isn’t working out well for the DoJ – it turns out there are some consequences for taking down a law-abiding business using illegal raids, false search warrents, and spurious criminal charges.
  
  The government and industry can call filesharing “theft” all they want, but that doesn’t make it so. Actually, it only makes them liars.
  
  What new laws are you talking about? All the attempted new pro-copyright laws have been defeated. Quite hard. Are you delusional or someth… Oh. That’s right, you *are* delusional.
- Hiya_tiger
  
  Avoid America, and stay free my friends.
Guest

Did no one else think it said ‘me-gay’ at first…. lol
- Violated0
  
  My only thought was they got rid of that damned orange and their new site should be running on red.
Hogspace

I can see some Extraordinary Rendition coming his way. It’s quite clear the Copyright industry in the USA has colluded with Government and Judiciary to over rule Due Process and the Rule of Law. Driven a tank through it in fact. There appears to be no way to appeal or overcome this fact.
Guest

gona check it out on 19 january. but if it gonna be all pay to download then im gonna show him center finger.
Georgewilson372

As much as Kim Dotcom likes to paint himself as a martyr and complain about internet regulation in the United States, he clearly broke copyright laws and deserves to be prosecuted for his actions. It is hardly surprising that he has the audacity launch another website aimed at illegally downloading copyrighted materials during his ongoing criminal proceedings, but Kim would be smart, and lucky, to simply drift into retirement.
- Anyone
  
  so far the only people that clearly broke the laws are law enforcement in both new zealand and the US
  
  Megaupload offered a service where you can upload files and share it with others
  why should Megaupload care if their users choose to upload copyrighted files? that’s not the fault of Megaupload
- Violated0
  
  PROVEN (pending appeal)
  
  1. NZ authorities conducted an unlawful raid on Kim Dotcom’s home.
  2. NZ authorities unlawfully seized Kim Dotcom’s property.
  3. NZ authorities unlawfully refused to return falsely seized property that had nothing to do with the case.
  4. NZ authorities unlawfully exported evidence without court approval.
  5. NZ authorities unlawfully wire-tapped NZ citizens.
  
  UNPROVEN
  1. Kim Dotcom broke copyright laws.
  2. US authorities unlawfully seized 3rd party property.
  
  I can’t wait for US documents to be unsealed to uncover yet more of their unlawful acts but what is really going on here becomes more clear as each day passes.
  - Guest
    
    I think that the Proven (pending an appeal) has already now been upheld by the court of appeals and has agreed with the previous rulings. The only appeal currently be dealt with at the moment by the appeal court for which they are now deciding on is the matter of having to give fuller disclosure of evidence of the Megaupload case before the extradition hearing. I can’t wait to see what the US government will come out with if the appeals court upholds the ruling that they MUST give fuller disclosure of evidence. If they don’t comply to the ruling if the appeal court upholds it I hope they are found to be incontempt for refusing to comply and the extradition is refused.
    - Violated0
      
      The appeal against the disclosure of evidence failed as you can read here…
      http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/megaupload-evidence/
      
      It is likely though that they will keep appealing this matter all the way up to the supreme court simply because they have a weak case and want to delay the progression as much as possible.
      
      As things stand the DoJ and FBI are lawfully required to disclose all evidence related to the extradition case before the extradition hearing in March. So they now have 4 months to sort themselves out and to show why Kim Dotcom and Mega are in the position that they are in now.
    - Colin Carr
      
      I’d guess that if they fail to give fuller disclosure to the NZ court, the extradition request will be thrown out by the court. That still leaves the FSA* and their MPAA masters more or less where they want to be, because Megaupload is shut down, users’ files are not available to them, and they’ve seized megabucks of Megaupload money.
      
      *Fascist States of America
    - Guest
      
      @Violated The appeal against the disclosure of evidence that the US must give fuller disclosure of evidence was being appealed by the prosecutors. The appeal is being dealt with at the moment by the appeal court and will give its ruling anytime now. If the appeal court agrees with the ruling that fuller disclosure of evidence must be given before the extradition hearing then Dotcom will have scored another win as he will be able to see fuller evidence against him. Whatever the appeal court decides I don’t know if this can be appealed as this is being dealt with in NZ and the High Court has already decided on this matter which has now been passed onto the appeal court because the US appealed the decision. So i think that this can’t be appealed anymore whatever the appeal court decides and therefore the ruling is final. If fuller disclosure of evidence have to be made I can see the US trying to delay the time in providing the evidence or the evidence they give will only show Megaupload in a bad light and any evidence of wrong doing from the US side and evidence that shows Megaupload in a good light will not be handed over.
Hogspace

It needs a country to break ranks. To put citizens before copyright. To admit that citizens should be sold product, that “licence” breaks our rights. And that citizens can share their products FOR NO REWARD if they so choose.
Also, take away the rights of digital copyright holders to decide on channels. They have to put it out there and anyone can sell it at the margin they choose.
- Eddy
  
  “It needs a country to break ranks.”….wont happen buddy. Every single country on the planet are run by corrupt multi millionaires whos greed drives them to line their own pockets.
  Tell me ONE world leader that isnt rich.?
  - Roger David Carasso
    
    Joe Biden.
    
    Average Net Worth: $-534,990*
    
    Minimum Net Worth: $-1,260,972
    Maximum Net Worth: $190,993
    
    Average 2011 Income: $273,205**
    
    http://www.davemanuel.com/pols/joe-biden/
    
    I mean he’s not poor, but he ain’t exactly rich either.
  - Hogspace
    
    I’m not disagreeing with you.
foff

I would expect that the new mega would probably have mirrors in some of the traditional harbors like Russia and Swiss etc. One thing in a small country it is relatively easy to buy protection. It would be unlikely that the US would give a large aid package to a small country just so it could take down a website and before could even be organized the site would be long gone.

I have many terabytes of data on drives that I would love to mirror in cloud services as buying drives and copying is way to expensive I have great need of a cloud service that is bullet proof and won’t quickly go out of business or be shut down because some use it for piracy.

This industry will eventually mature but just like most manufacturing this is an industry that will be forced offshore. The Us in its its ambitious attempts to control copyright is committing digital suicide. Already because the US government has not demanded the industry double or triple internet speed to keep up with the rest of the world us internet speeds are slow by most standards in most of the developed world. By destroying safe harbors the US is destroying the cloud business. I have a friend that has thousands of cd’s. I could rip them all and put them in the cloud for him but what if the government took down the hoster and claimed his files were copyrighted. True they are but in this case he had the right to rip them for backup and use the back up method of choice regardless of whether they could be made available to others or not.

This brings up the final point about data being illegal. Data by itself is not and never has been illegal. The possession of copyrighted data is not a crime anywhere the laws only say unauthorized transmission or unauthorized reproduction for distribution for commercial gain. No where in the law is the data actually defined as illegal. It bothers me in any article where the data is referred to as illegal. Data is not a goddamn drug and is not illegal.
Chronoss2008

the usa has been hostile to innovation and tech for years…do not do business with americans.

Just another nail in its coffin go on focus harder on your precious ip and move more money out of your nation …..
doesn’t even bother me…
Anonymous

it wasn’t admitted that any sites that USA ICE and DoJ shut down were done so by ‘mistake’. when you consider that it took over a year for some of these sites to be allowed to get back up and running, it shows the absolute contempt that the USA has for anything it doesn’t like, the lengths it will go to to please their own entertainment industries and the fact that they will and frequently do break International as well as their own laws just to achieve what they want. as far as the site shut downs are concerned, the object of the exercise was to do as much harm as possible, hoping that the financial damage would prevent the sites from reopening, even though it was fully recognized that the action was illegal.
Pinocchio

In an interview with Reuters, Mr Dotcom suggested that content owners might even get direct access to users’ uploaded files “if they agree not to make us responsible for actions of users”.

WHAT!!!!!
- Anyone
  
  they had that on Megaupload as well
  it didn’t stop pirated files on it, and this is just a way to get them to sign “we won’t sue you” papers
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Harquebus

I love this bloke.
Anon

“Content owners can still remove infringing material and they will even get direct delete access if they agree not to make us responsible for actions of users,” Mr. Dotcom said.

lolol
- Fredrika
  
  > “lolol”
  
  Most people try to prove that they can produce sustainable arguments, you always prove that you can’t.
  - Scary_Devil_Monastery
    
    I think dear old “Baghdad Bob” feels he has a hard-earned reputation to uphold.
    
    That may be why he is so desperate to ensure the high quotient of nonsense in his usual commentary.
Kalle

Havent dotcom the money to lanch a satelite and use that as a dns+key holder for a darknet. Any one with a satelite internet connection can get the new ip and new Keys to the safe krypto tunnels, those users will then spread the word to the rest of the internet, like TPB on steriodes, and when his at it lend some bandwith to the TPB…
Test

Looks like alot of kids aren’t doing their internet homework.. Complaining about a .ga domain lol..
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Anon

I just want to say, I love you Kim.
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DarthDiggler

You know somehow this guy is some Geek Hero even though he ran a warehouse for thieves. I won’t use Me.Ga and I never used MegaUpload.
- http://profile.typepad.com/6p0120a5509de8970c ???
  
  how do you steal ones and zeros ?
Wfeherg

Kim Dotcom: ME.GA
Government: ;( (facepalm)
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chuwha

http://al.ly/t2W
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CWAL

Kim Dotga
http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq

A new Internet final boss has emerged.
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$#

“Dotcom warns against Dot Com” #irony

Maybe he can change his name into Notcom?
Alcatelmm

Kim Dotcom’s new Me.ga site blocked by Gabon: Government wants no truck with ‘unscrupulous people’ Maybe another domain.? http://www.megabox.ro .?
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