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Kim Dotcom: Mega Will Turn Encryption into a Mass Product

Next month Kim Dotcom will release a new and improved version of the now defunct Megaupload. Today, he unveiled the new look of the site by sharing several teaser screenshots, including one of the encryption interface. Mega, as the new service is called, will turn encryption into a mass product and Dotcom believes that with Mega’s help half of all Internet traffic will be encrypted in 5 years.

January this year the U.S. Government destroyed Megaupload, but founder Kim Dotcom is a not done with the file-hosting business yet.

On the contrary, he is preparing a comeback with something bigger and better.

Over the past several months a group of coders have been working hard on the new “Mega” which is scheduled to launch January 20 2013, exactly one year after Megaupload was shut down.

Today, Dotcom revealed the look of the new Mega, showing off the new encryption feature, the registration screen and a new file manager.

Speaking with TorrentFreak, Dotcom says the new site is the result of many years’ expertise in the file-storage business.

“It’s special because seven years of experience have been turned into the perfect cloud storage solution. It scales infinitely. It provides up- and download acceleration and resume in the browser thanks to the latest HTML5 technology,” he says.

The encryption part pictured below is perhaps the most exciting feature unveiled thus far. Before users upload their files to Mega they will be encrypted using the AES algorithm. Advanced security, but based on code that will be open source.

“File transfers and storage are encrypted with military strength and you don’t have to take our word for it, that part of the code is open,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak.


MEGA encryption (large)

Encryption is the future according to Dotcom, who believes that with help from Mega encryption will be the file-sharing standard in five years, accounting for half of all Internet traffic.

“Our easy to use one-click privacy feature will turn encryption into a mass product. We believe within five years half of all Internet traffic will be encrypted with solutions born from our new API,” Dotcom says.

“I believe in our rights to privacy and legal sharing. I intend to protect those rights when governments are acting in the interest of corporations rather than society and progress,” he adds.

Despite their ongoing legal battle with the U.S. Government, Dotcom and his team are determined to bring new innovations to life.

“Mega brings liberation by innovation and I hope everyone will spread the word when Mega comes to life in January,” Dotcom concludes.

In addition to the encryption screenshot, earlier today Dotcom also teased the file manager interface and the registration screen on Twitter.


MEGA file manager (large)

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  • Zartek

    Hm, it seems like adblock needs to be updated. I’m seeing blatant advertisement here.

    • Guest

      add a subscription

      • Haydens

        I doubt theres much to add. It’s obvious Kim Dotcom got his start because he was the one site serving to pirates. There’s not much to add.

        • ThumbsUpThumbsDown

          Actually, wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that Kim Dot-Com got his start because the Copyright Monopolies panicked when confronted with the reality of the Digital Internet; and, decided, instead, to commit collective ritual Sepuku by assaulting all of civil society?

        • http://geekhideout.net/ The G33K

          Like how Hollywood got it’s start by knowingly and blatantly infringing on Intellectual property?

          Nah.. Hollywoods infringing is based on actual proof, court cases that determined actual guilt, historical facts and other authenticated evidential means. MegaUpload’s alleged ‘serving to pirates’ though is based on your hearsay and others wild allegations that are yet to be actual proven anywhere.

        • http://twitter.com/MeghanLambert11 Meghan Lambert

          showing off the new encryption feature, the registration screen and a new file manager.… http://www.youtubeGoogleGetJob.qr.net/jPfD/watch?v=su6YN9gczvM

    • Eeeaddict

      if you don’t like it visit another website its not like you help TF doesn’t even get ad revenue from you

      • Zartek

        No, even better, I’ve e-mailed them a few stories that they’ve turned into articles. You, on the other hand, provide us with horribly structured sentences. Go you!

        • TheOiulkj

          Wrong.

        • chronoss

          Right

        • Sexytune

          balls

        • Eeeaddict

          I’m sorry but English is not my main language

    • IHaveNoBalls

      I see people saying the same shit over and over..

      • Haley_Joel

        Walking around like regular people.

        • Guest

          Long live Kim Dotcom!

          MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGA

      • Guest

        I usually hear them. You’re gifted.

    • puddipuddi

      dotkom, the sleaze that he is, has become the tpb of file lockers. Sure he wants money, and maybe he doesn’t truly stand for our cause… BUT HE IS FIGHTING FOR IT. Let him keep fighting for us and we can shun him when he stops supporting us.

      This is in reply in advance to all who say “dotkom is a con artist etc.”

      • Dondilly

        Anyone willing to give the MAFIAA a good kicking and teaching governments the true cost of doing their bidding can’t be all bad.

        Personally , other than the fact he is justifiably gicving the USA tbe finger, I’m not that interested in mega. What is of more interest is megabox. Aside from issues over funding the free content, anything that empowers artists to sidestep exploitative MAFIAA recording contracts and undermines their business model is worthy of attention.

        • Danny

          ‘The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend’ is fairly on the mark when I think of dotcom.

      • Muppen

        This guy “Dotcom” is just another crook that wants to make money out of others hard work.Just google his history,insider trading etc etc.A lot of ppl have lost money because of this fatty.

        • Barf

          U MAD BRO?

          u so mad.

    • Anaon

      This site is getting annoying with KIM DOT COM how much is he paying this site from his hidden loot? This is a BT site not a site for organised crime. FFS stop it or I am not reading anymore here!!!

      • Guest

        And why is that? Do you have an real reason you’ve come up with yourself or have you simply borrowed all your opinions like a normal?

        Dotcom might not be the best person, but he’s still fighting for what we are.
        Have honestly you never heard the saying “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”?

        Encryption is never, ever, a bad thing when in the hands of the public.
        Transparency is our enemy, and IF Mega can make encryption the standard we’ll have won a large battle.

        • Lop

          The enemy of my enemy is my friend – Isnt that what got America into loads of trouble when they armed Russia’s enemies???

        • http://twitter.com/Prungy Prungy

          @Lop

          On one side we have the MPAA who have bought laws to protect their interests in the US and abroad, to the detriment of consumers, used government organizations such as the FBI and ICE as their private enforcement arm to remove any perceived threats without regard to the law or due process, and attempted to get a college student extradited to the US to face punishment for running a perfectly legal website.

          On the other side we have a greedy businessman who happens to be one of the aforementioned perceived threats.

          I think I’ll take my chances with Dotcom.

      • markh

        go play in the corner scum, he is not even convicted but you ay organised crime, troll somewhere else

      • Caleb

        It’s not as thought this site didn’t talk about very little besides TPB back when they had an ongoing court case. And, when a new piracy related service is being launched, that’s the kind of news that belongs here. If you don’t feel like reading it, don’t.

      • nostrafarious

        Good, get the fuck out of here, little Miss Goody Two Shoes.

  • Bananas

    cool.

    • Wall

      I can’t wait, in the meantime, let’s get party!!

  • Justin Beaird

    so are the files encrypted on the servers so mega cant find them on server and delete them? or if i share file with a friend will I have to give him a 2048-bit key?

    • Jay

      they are encrypted on the server
      MEGA will have no idea what you uploaded

      if you want to share files you have to share the URL and the encryption key of that file

      • Justin Beaird

        yea but will mega be able to locate them on their server? is there server encrypted so they cant find file even if they get take down request?

        • Anyone

          if they get the URL from the DMCA they will of course know the file

        • Gma

          That the purpose of the encryption key. If its been encrypted and those MAFIAA troll still able to access and DMCA your file, then you deserve to have your ass in the jail. No complain.

        • Wall

          You should read this:

          http://torrentfreak.com/new-megaupload-will-deflect-copyright-liability-and-become-raid-proof-121018/

          “Before users upload their files to Mega they will be encrypted using the AES algorithm. Users will then be provided with a unique decryption key giving them sole responsibility for who can have future use of the file.

          Not only does this ensure completely security and privacy for users’ files, Mega will have no knowledge of any encrypted file’s contents at any stage, effectively deflecting any future accusation that they were aware of how their service was being used”.

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        That is correct, Jay. However, if you are giving encryption keys for files, you would assume that you personally knew the people you were given them out to OR were using a ‘throwaway’ account that is tied to a anonymous e-mail address.

        • Jay

          each file will have its own encryption key
          you can decide only to share select files while not compromising the rest of your account

          however what this also means is that even if multiple people upload the same file it will not be redundant, since encryption means each file is unique, even if it would be the same unencrypted
          so you will have to sacrifice some upload speed for the added security if you want to share well known files (such as scene releases)

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          The problem, Jay, is that if you are sharing pirated material (let’s be real, that will still go on with Mega) and they get one complaint, they might take down your entire account.

          So the best thing to do is, if you are ‘pirating’ (which most of it is sharing and giving people a ‘try before buy) have that throwaway account that you put nothing important on.

        • Anyone

          I never used oneclick hosters for that, is that a real danger?
          did MU ban “repeat offenders”? do other hosts?

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          Yes, MegaUpload did shut down the account (not totally ban people, i.e. an IP ban because they realized more than one person might be using an IP address) when there were too many notifications of infringement.

          One of my friends in real life had that happen to his account because he was re-upping TV shows. Luckily, he had used a throwaway e-mail that he had proxied through TOR so there were no negatives from that.

    • sebbes

      2048-bit key is probably a asymmetric Diffie hellman key exchange of the symmetric AES key. It is about the encryption of the TRANSMISSION, not the data stored.

      • User0001

        No it’s the data that’s encrypted.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Can’t be. AES only goes to a bit length of 256 – this being quite secure against any conveivable brute force attempts. The keypair exchange however, is probably on the order of 2048 bit.

      • http://natanael.posterous.com/ Natanael L

        No, I bet it’s the user keypair.

        • CoMeDyDuDe619

          Does it really fucking matter?
          Either way shit gets encyrpted.

      • Guest

        The point of encrypting data is to safely transfer data over an unsecure network, so clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about.

        • sebbes

          Then you would not have to have an RSA-key. Just encrypt it with AES is sufficient. You clearly don’t know what RSA is and what you are taking about.

      • chronoss

        and without transmission encryption as your uploading the man er maffia sits back records and laughs its ass off.

        BUSTED….
        he needs to add a client that also uses AES on data transfer or its still not safe.

        google file sniffing

        • Techanon

          isn’t ssl (https) enough for data transfer?

        • Guest

          @Techanon

          Yes, for file transfer. NOT for file storage.
          Anonymity in transferring information is not Kim’s objective.
          Mega needs to reasonably claim that they cannot examine the files to discover what they contain…which is to say, they can claim they are oblivious to the content they store for their customers. It is not their customers asses they care about: just their own. Which is reasonable when you consider it is a business at the end of the day. Why should they be held responsible for the actions of their clientèle?

        • Ee

          yes but anti piracy does not see what u download so ?

        • chronoss

          ssl has exploits you need end to end AES clients

        • Patron

          @chronoss there is a OCH doing exactly this:

          http://oceanus.ch/

    • Guest

      If you share anything that infringes copyright and the RIAA/MPAA find out then it will be you that will be in trouble as you were the responsible in giving out the key etc. as opposed to MEGA who don’t no what you are sharing as they don’t have the key well that’s how it should work. There is nothing to stop people from sharing if they want to.

      • Jay

        so it is also your responsibility to give MEGA as little information as possible, so they cannot give anything to the trolls, even if they wanted to

        encryption only goes so far, you still have to use your brain

        but it is still great, instead of a single point of vulnerability that can be easily sued they’d have to go after each MEGA user instead of MEGA itself

        • Guest

          Could get interesting with a million uploads a week from a million individual filesharers. Chasing that many individuals could bankrupt even the monopoly in a month.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Precisely.

          Even if your bank locker provides admirable security, you are still responsible for your own security while travelling to and from the bank.

          Sadly, many computer users do this while metaphorically toting a big sign stating their home adress, full name and purpose.

          Which is why end-end encryption and anonymization is always required.

      • 965F854C

        Knowing the RIAA/MPAA it won’t be long till they argue the owner of Mega encrypted everything to willfully help people infringe on copyrighted works. Knowing how governments and courts have reacted to such questionable ideas (such as, your IP uniquely identifies you in case of piracy, or sharing mere link to copyrighted work is just as bad as hosting a copy of the work), it won’t be long before they find a way to make it illegal, or at least to backstab Mega or dotcom or their hosting provider using a made-up case saying they did something else (unrelated) illegally.

        • Ee

          well since they do not allow us hosters to store such material anyway, dmca does not apply as dmca contrary to mafiaa belief is us only

        • Colin Carr

          But so far the New Zealand judiciary have shown themselves remarkably resistant to MAFIAA/US gov.t lies; so maybe the new Mega will be comparatively safe. Though I wouldn’t rule out a a tactical nuclear weapon being fired at Mega’s servers if they can find them.

      • ThumbsUpThumbsDown

        “That can’t possibly be my key!”

        “My key had completely different numbers”

        “My God!! I was Hacked!”

        “My Grandfather is eighty nine years old; and, he says he doesn’t know anything about gay porn, or these new fangled modern keys!!”

        “Are you quite sure you had a valid warrant when you entered my computer and deciphered my private data?”

        • Fewww

          You’re lucky, if your grandfather would know about gay things,
          probably you and your father wouldn’t have been born.

    • Guest

      How do they know whats in the files unless they download the files? If they download the files to prove their case they implicate themselves in criminal activity, that evidence was illegally obtained and couldn’t hold up in court.

      • Anyone

        if you want to share a file you have to disclose the decryption key
        so they do have access to that

        otherwise they might as well download radiation noise, they won’t crack the encryption in their lifetime

      • Ee

        it did not stop them before and previous cases and reports have showed how mafiaa uploads such material to catch downloaders/sharers when they released it on internets first often anyway

      • chronoss

        no and be neive and ssl has exploits to sniff the data so go on thinking your safe with ssl
        there are workarounds but few do them and if he jsut made a app called megapp
        that aes’d up and down transfers via keys then you’d have no issues.
        until they do that its just him trying to protect himself and NOT YOU
        just like torrent clients

        • Timo

          When you connect to your bank account online what the heck do you think is going on? And do you really think that connection can be hacked? No, it can’t. Stop the bullshit about SSL exploits or NAME THEM EXPLICITLY

    • chronoss

      you dont even get how encryption works
      the files are they only ENCRYPTED gee smarten up and know what your getitng into.

      and the next move by hollyfuck will be to require by law all users int here controled areas of influence must give encryption keys to local govts and feds and cops so that the terrorists and pedobears cant win….OH and ya gangsters and druggies too….ya ya cant forget them…

      • Barf

        WRONG, YOU FAILED TROLL.

        Uploaded files to Mega are encrypted with AES on THE CLIENT SIDE, you imbecile. Learn how to read.

        So, no… no sniffing possible.

        Try again.

  • Thiis

    Megaupload, I’ve missed you – old friend.

    • I_am_yo

      Megaupload is in hell (in other words, under custody of US authorities)!!

      This is Mega.

  • Anonymous

    i hope Kim is right. my main concern is whether the USA government, in collaboration with the US entertainment industries, will be able to threaten and/or bribe whoever is in charge of wherever the Mega servers are. there are few countries that wont succumb to the demands of the US, even though they have less power and more bravado now. something the US has always been very good at is posturing. that and convincing others that the only road to travel is the one that makes things better for the US but doesn’t help anywhere else at all!! i think this is going to get even more interesting, particularly after the ‘spying’ revelation of the NZ forces, just to, again, please the US!! there should be some high profile heads rolling over that little screw up!!

    • chronoss

      once they encrypt on there servers with a key ONLY you get then your data with aes is safe HOWEVER
      if your using SSL to get the key
      then i sniff it and i too have your key and can then glean your data.

      please everyone stop underestimating them they are evil greedy people and will stop at nothing till everyone has a camera up there assholes

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        The good part here is that, still using the metaphor, most people start to notice when the MPAA camera lens starts inching it’s way past the sphincter.

        In short, since every new attempt to restrict filesharing impacts the average john doe and legal business far more than it does us, crunch time is close.

      • Barf

        Wrong. Learn how to read. All data is encrypted on the CLIENT SIDE. Even if you hijack the SSL session, you only get to see the same thing as Mega’s servers: encrypted data.

        Please try again, failed troll.

  • Guest

    I will not be surprised that Hollywood will pressure the US government with the FBI to charge MEGA for facilitating in copyright infringement with using encryption as the reason for facilitating copyright infringement. I am sure Hollywood, the US government and FBI will come up with ways and means to get the new MEGA charged and shutdown but if MEGA does not have servers in the US and does not reside in the US and does not have a US web domain address then MEGA will not be under US jurisdiction but I am sure that the US will do whatever it takes to seize the company, shutdown the company and seize all its assets even though the company does not come under US jurisdiction. The US will no doubt bully and bribe other governments to get MEGA shutdown on their behalf with threats of sanctions and treaties etc. I have this feeling that Hollywood and the US government are going to get very nasty from now until MEGA gets seized and shutdown. I wish Dotcom and the new MEGA every success and I for one will be signing up for an account.

    • Guest

      You think Dotcom isn’t prepared for all the shit the US is going to try to pull after the NZ raid? Come on, dude.

      Besides, the case against MegaUpload is NOT going well for the US. I don’t think the DOJ will be eager to repeat it by conspiring to illegally raid his business yet again.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003257189177 Mustikos Thaumastis

        You think it will be really encrypted? FBI has backdoors everywhere, this is just a better CP honeypot!
        Hope they catch as many mofos possible…

    • Guest

      The point in Encryption is to limit liability. If the data is encrypted the MPAA or RIAA would implicate themselves in illegal activity by downloading the data to verify indeed it is copy written material. They can’t legally download the content either, so how exactly are they going to verify that illegal file sharing is in fact occurring?

      • Anyone

        if you want to publicly share it you have to disclose the encryption key (or rather decryption key)

        so they’ll know what’s in that file, but they (and mega) have no idea who else uploaded that same file, they can’t browse the mega servers and delete files like they could with MU

        • Guest

          That’s not a strong case. I say I raped a woman in florida six years ago. Can i be charged for that allegation?

        • Anyone

          I don’t quite understand what you are getting at

          MEGA will have no idea what is stored on their servers (because it is encrypted)
          if a file is shared the link and the decryption key has to be shared
          so anyone that finds that information can download and decrypt the file, including the MAFIAA

          decrypting a file is not illegal if you have the key
          if you don’t have the key it may be illegal, but also impossible ;)

        • JohnBoi

          ” Guest 4 hours ago in reply to Jay

          That’s not a strong case. I say I raped a woman in florida six years ago. Can i be charged for that allegation?
          ”

          yes you can, and I have read abt ppl being put in prison (having no evidence ever presented besides he said he did this) and those ppl getting 12-24 years for their words.

          Dont beleve me? Apply for a job as a pig and when have interview, they as have u ever molester ed anyone or touched a kids penis, vagina, tits? Say yes and u get arrested and put in prison. I have read a case about such and guy got convicted w/ no evidence other than he said he touched a 11yr old’s pussy and that it felt good.

          He got 22 years.

          So those that change diapers or have seen kids naked, are vile p3d0phlL3sm, and wipe kidz puzzys when they are in diapers, are molest3rs. Have a kid suck your tits? Well u should b arrested 4 child molestatlon, and lh;hophhave a kid ever through ir puzzy? Well u are guilty of touching kid as well as exposing them to ur genetalia = 10-20yrs min according to law. Now any kid has sexual relations w/ another? seems to be fine according to selective prosecution as I do not see cops or fbi ets raiding all the schools and rounding up the p3d0s. Yes that is right, most p3d0s are in schools around world and r kidz themselves… Flawed logic seems to be happenung around world as they let ped0s roam free around other ones and ppl they may molest instead of raiding all the schools and locking up the ped0s which most ped0s = didz themselves and uts been like this how long now?

          Should acc to law, u can not like some1 unless they r 18yr old, bc if a 26yr gets with a 12yr or similar age, why should he/she be arrested for it or shunned when the male/female 12yr old anyways probaly fucked so many guys by that time/is a slut? If its legal concent in vatican city where ped0bear p0p3 comes from, why can they have sex but cant film? Strange that film is more illigal than act as act was legal by vatican law.

          make since to any1?

      • Ee

        from reading this site (past articles), you should have verified that that has not stopped them be4

      • chronoss

        once they encrypt on there servers with a key ONLY you get then your data with aes is safe HOWEVER
        if your using SSL to get the key
        then i sniff it and i too have your key and can then glean your data.

        • MadAsASnake

          It’s never entirely secure. But really, trolls so far have limited themselves mostly to scraping torrenting IP’s and extorting account holders whether they did it or not. Actually going to this sort of trouble in the numbers needed and keeping everything to court standard? NSA perhaps, MAFIAA – not in a million years.

        • Barf

          Stop spreading your copypasta lies. All data is encrypted on the CLIENT SIDE so they can’t do anything EVEN IF THEY HIJACK YOUR SSL SESSION.

          Try again, fail troll.

    • Ee

      “I have this feeling that Hollywood and the US government are going to get very nasty from now until MEGA gets seized and shutdown.”

      bet were they ever clean?

    • Guest

      What about if the server is in a country like… Iran?
      May be the Iranian goverment would agree to such hosting if they knew that this would be uosetting to the capitalistic American corporations that they hate so mush…

      • chronoss

        there religious people have a problem with the types of content you view trust me not a great idea….its same with the usa people and part of whats behind this is religion and yes greedy scum sucking whiney do nohting lazy fucks that have so much time they came come here and post all day about how we are evil….

  • Riii

    next month kim dotcom will be arrested again because US is god, hahahahaha……joke……..but really besides not having any servers in the US/US’s bitches I fear that our shitty country will find a way to take down one of the best pirates again.

    • Guest

      Well going by how long it has taken to get TPB shutdown and its still operational then I would not be surprised that Hollywood will get all its copyright members to serve the courts in countries to get ISP’s to block MEGA and we all know how these blockades work don’t we lol

    • Guest

      You know I am a pirate myself but I don’t believe the Tim dot com is a pirate nor that Megaupload was a pirating website. Megaupload was a multi-purpose file storage on line app, period.

  • Boxxy

    I feel like Kim Dotcom is going to end up no better than the people who already try to police the internet. I think he’s going to let this ego trip get to his head.

    • Shogunreaper

      As long as it benifits filesharing i couldn’t care less how big his ego gets.

    • Guest

      If you think Kim Dotcom will try to police the internet with Mega then you are very, very confused. It’s a fucking cloud storage site, how would he even… No, forget it. It’s no use even trying to figure out the thought process of a moron.

  • http://awesomewallpapersblog.com/ Ben

    Notice the files in the file manager screenshot. It’s small jab in the face of the Mafia:)

    • Guest

      Yeah, I bet the MAFFIA.DOJ and FBI are going through these screenshots with a microscope right now to find anything that breeches and infringes copyright and incriminates MEGA. I wish MEGA every success :))

  • Guest

    This update is great, hopefully the government cant take it down now.

    • Violated0

      That would depend on if they want to follow the law or not. If they do follow the law then that answer is clearly no.

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  • Guest

    Correct title: Mega will eventually give governments reasons to ban encryption for personal use, after a long process of framing it as the tool of wrongdoers. Much like they framed a freaking protocol (bittorrent) the same way.

    • Jay

      the US tried banning encryption for non-military uses in the 90s

      you can’t ban math, it doesn’t work

    • Liam Jh

      lol – you ban encryption, you kill banking.

      • Guest

        He bans encryption he bans security and privacy. :)

        • Guest

          what about ban ki moon?

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          “what about ban ki moon?”

          Ki Moon is already cryptic enough without any need for AES, thank you.

    • Guest

      Some countries already tried to do it and… they failed.

      • Guest

        Exactly, they didn’t have enough reasons. Now they will. And to fix the issues presented above, you will need a license to use encryption. Which banks won’t have any problems getting, without raising suspicion. Encryption for personal use will be framed in such a way as to raise suspicion. The direction was this anyway since long ago, remember how many millions of users google *didn’t* lose after their CEO said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”. Nobody really did anything. Privacy is already being framed as the tool of terrorists. In the meantime we keep using google, we keep being surprised and appalled when people criticize the powerful using their identities, not anonymously, and then they get prosecuted. Heck, not even this site allows you to post anonymously. A site that usually *deals* with such sensitive issues.
        So stop being wise-ass-ey with people that raise serious concerns just because you’re too lazy to actually start taking their advice seriously and stop behaving in risky ways on the currently being tamed world of the internet, that will soon stop being the technological wild west it has been for almost 20 years.

        • Anyone

          ask china how that works out for them so far

        • MadAsASnake

          Licence to encrypt? Really? Clearly something you know nothing about. You need to know how a file is encoded to read it. Try reading a Word document in notepad – or an EBCDIC one for that matter. Ciphers and writing are pretty much synonymous. Can you read Chinese? No, thought not. Dutch? Even uses the same characters, no, thought not.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Oh, look, “Anon” is back.

          Let me know, please, “Baghdad Bob” how anyone will be able to even ascertain that individuals are using encryption given that the only way of realizing a transmission is encrypted to begin with is to download it entirely, then fail to open it in any conceivable format, and then make the assumption that the transmission wasn’t simply damaged?

          See, your entire wordwall hinges on the sole argument that “magic” is possible or that some Vulcan science officer from the Enterprise will be using pseudoscientific quantum computing to figure out when and where an individual is transmitting encrypted data.

          On top of which, even if this were possible the minimum requirement is that EACH and EVERY transmission on the internet must be monitored and analyzed in real time.

          “So stop being wise-ass-ey with people that raise serious concerns…”

          He’s not. He’s pointing out that even a government can not expect any real world results to come out of begging Gandalf to come and save the day with a handy spell.

  • AnonPsycho

    should start at christmas imo :/

  • dude

    …..coming within the next year, anonymous torrent like sharing.the assholes won’t be able to do shit to stop it or monitor it….with mega and new protocols for sharing they will be mindfucked

  • guest

    Until the MAAFIA war is resolved- only a total idiot would store ANY data on ANY website, encrypted or cloud or whatever. If you don’t have your files backed up on EXTERNAL MEDIA, at least two separate ones stored in different physical locations, you are too stupid to live on the internets.

    • Fuckyou

      /thread

    • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

      Wow that makes perfect sense, lets spend hundreds of dollars to hide files, and never use them again. /sarcasm

      The whole point of “cloud” storage, is to have access to those files at anytime, anywhere, and to share share information among many people. Plus, You are more likely to lose or damage the “external media”, then the cloud service is.

      I can understand this if your making a personal backup, or archive, but you didn’t state that.

  • Something

    ok ok, i think we need to move beyond putting stuff on a server, it should be a cloud, like the TPB. totally redundant and offsite. The encryption is what is lacking with the shceme of the pirate bay. If we can have cloud + encryption then it would be ideal. I dont think he has discussed what that of backbone network or server he is using with this has he?

    • Anyone

      MEGA is a cloud
      all the files will be distributed over multiple servers

      granted, the company still offers a weak point in terms of sueing, but the servers can’t be seized anymore like with Megaupload

    • Guest

      Putting stuff on the cloud is putting stuff on a server.

      “The cloud” is just a buzzphrase for remote storage.

      • IHaveNoBalls

        Isn’t “The cloud” basically FTP?

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          “The cloud” is just a buzzphrase for remote storage.

          It doesn’t get any clearer.

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        Yes, well….really, the “cloud” is in essence creating a RAID partition using several redundant backup servers. So at the very least you’ve reduced vulnerability of losing one or two.

        In short, if you want to talk “cloud”, as irrelevant as the term is, it’s still not putting stuff on ONE server…

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=682304551 Alec Wood

    He should host his servers in China, the one place the US has no reach or influence

    • Guest

      Megaupload had its head office in Hong Kong but that didn’t stop Hong Kong bending over for the US in seizing the company and the assets for the US even though Hong Kong is now part of China.

      • IHaveNoBalls

        What about North Korea?

        • Jon7272

          your assuming north korea has a decent internet they may have decent military but nothing else

      • Violated0

        Hong Kong Justice is based on the British law system. Going into mainland China would see a large change in laws.

  • Guest

    since every money Kim Dotcom will get from new MEGA will serve for legal expenses and to pay lawyers, i think anyone should think to buy a PREMIUM ACCOUNT. Kim’victory against us corrupted gov will be a victory for all filesharing and will have the positive effect to show that the threats by MPAA RIAA and so on… have no power to stop the FULLY LEGAL FILEHOSTING BUSINESS (since a filehosting is a neutral service).

    So, also now defunct filehosting (like filesonic and wupload) will come back

  • Bert Ritto

    Don’t use these cyberlockers but am loving watching Mr Dotcom go about his business. It’s a pisser.

  • Anonymous

    Bring it, MEGA.
    Let’s teach the MAFIAA scum mofos a lesson.
    Let’s show them their days are numbered.

    • BobMail

      Yes, and they you can start watching… wait.. Epic Meal Time 24hours per day?

      You children don’t even realize that you are shooting yourselves in the foot.

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        Yes, because Beethoven and Bach did not exist. And the original Star Wars trilogy needed a budget of a hundred million dollars.

        And “Phantom Menace”, because it cost so much to make, was a great success.

        No, seriously, BobMail…

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  • X1q5

    While I’m enjoying watching the case take it’s course and crossing my fingers for as much additional governmental/mafiaa embarrassment as possible, the hype over this new service is tiring.

    Just go live already. Who gives a crap about these extra features? Either it will embody those aspects that made megaupload great in the first place (fast speeds for free users, decent retention), and flourish like the original, or they will have ‘improved’ it too much, lost sight of the basics, and it will suck.

  • FD

    Yes kim is restarted like piratebay talking about what they have and what they setup publicly , this give mpaa huge bonus , in war u have to keep as much secret as possible while mega and pbay are running naked

    • Anyone

      it doesn’t matter how publicly known it is, he can release the source code for the encryption (which he will) and that still won’t help any in the decryption

      math doesn’t require secrecy ;)

    • Scary_Devil_Monastery

      No.

      A bank can say it’s using a 15-inch steel door for it’s vault and it will affect it’s security not one jot. Any business relying on security by obscurity is doomed to fail however.

  • BobMail

    I actually think that all that Kim is doing is bolstering the cases against him. Clearly, his intent here is to help people avoid prosecution for piracy, and that makes it very clear that he knows what his product was used for, and the target market for the new one.

    Kim is doing more harm to the piracy world now than helping it. By dragging all of this into the glare of the bright lights in full public view, he makes it clear that he has no respect for the law, and makes anyone who pirates appear in the same ugly light.

    You guys would be good to distance yourself from this self serving fat fucker. He’s in it to get rich and tweak noses, not to support free speech.

    • Vincent Giannell

      If you believe that, then you’re a bigger fool than we thought.

    • Anyone

      he intents to avoid being prosecuted for knowingly facilitating infringement
      and if MEGA works like it sounds it does it will work

      MEGA will have no idea what is stored on their server, therefore they can’t be liable for it

      now, individual users are still a bit exposed, they have to take extra steps to limit the information MEGA gets from them, mostly to leave no money trail
      but it is good news, now the MAFIAA can’t go after MEGA but they’d have to go after each individual user, which is very costly and very inefficient and will cause a lot of bad press

      • BobMail

        No, actually, what Kim isn’t telling you is that creating such a product to try to create deniability just makes him even more liable. Basically, the actions of encryping everything is an admission that what is passing isn’t generally legal.

        Worse yet, Mega will be in the horrible position of becoming the best way to pass child pr0n and such. So it’s not a good move, it’s a horrible move from a megalomania trying to stay famous at other people’s expense.

        • Guest

          “Basically, the actions of encryping everything is an admission that what is passing isn’t generally legal.”

          What kind of bullshit logic is that? Hey, my bank encrypts all of its transactions. So is my bank admitting that its transactions are illegal?

          “Worse yet, Mega will be in the horrible position of becoming the best way to pass child pr0n and such.”

          Take your childporn boogeyman and go fuck yourself with it, Bob.

        • chronoss

          no its called privacy and if you cant understand it , go for it look up what privacy stands for.
          BESIDES 150 year copyrights fuck off and get a fucking job ya lazy fuckers.

        • Guest

          ” Basically, the actions of encryping everything is an admission that what is passing isn’t generally legal.”

          So every government is doing illegal things then as they use encryption.

        • BobMail

          The logic is quite simple: If all you are doing is backing up your own files or sharing a link with a single other person (say for work) there is no need to encrypt. Honest end users don’t need it – and if they do, they can do it themselves without needing mega to do it for them.

          The only reason you would want to encrypt wholesale is for the host to be able to deny knowledge of the content. It’s SPECIFICALLY done to create that deniability, but in doing so, it’s a direct admission that they know the service is used for bad things, and that they NEED to shield themselves from it.

          Selling stuff in brown bags and specifically not opening them doesn’t make your innocent of selling the content. Kim’s logic here is borderline silly, another grandstanding move from a big mouth who hasn’t learned that sometimes it’s just better to shut up and do something, rather than try to make a big deal out of it.

        • Guest

          “The only reason you would want to encrypt wholesale is for the host to be able to deny knowledge of the content. It’s SPECIFICALLY done to create that deniability, but in doing so, it’s a direct admission that they know the service is used for bad things, and that they NEED to shield themselves from it.”

          So for every government to use encryption is an admission that there employees and users are doing bad and illegal things and that for these governments by using encryption they want to shield away from being held responsible from the illegal actions of these employees even though they know that the employees are doing things illegally.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          “what Kim isn’t telling you is that creating such a product to try to create deniability just makes him even more liable. “

          According to the same argument, the mail office became liable for distribution of contraband the second they invented the “envelope”.

          And GPS services and map providers are liable for speeding because they noted where speed cameras are positioned.

          And banks are held culpable for what is stored in their personal lockers.

          Your comparison, as usual, has little to no correspondence with the real world. Why not be honest for a change and simply acknowledge that it is only in your personal opinion where third parties should be assigned blame for what individuals A and B do?

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          “If all you are doing is backing up your own files or sharing a link with a single other person (say for work) there is no need to encrypt. “

          Yes, because no one in the world has any personal correspondence they would prefer to keep private.

          BobMail, be sure to pass along where you posted racy images of your previous girlfriends for public perusal?

          Or the backup where you store your bank statements – in clear text?

          Everyone has a need for encryption of everything belonging to our PRIVATE lives – a phenomenon also known as “locking the door while you’re on the can”.

          Not understanding that very simple fact of everyday existence must mean you take your whizzes with the door open so everyone can see that nothing untoward goes on in your toilet, right?

          My god, the staggering lows your arguments reach. Not even “Anon” does it better at times.

    • Dude

      There are plenty of other filelocker sites, he is the smart one introducing encryption to everything which is good.

    • Wallace

      “Clearly, his intent here is to help people avoid prosecution for piracy”

      Beware of anyone who is so insecure about what they are saying, they put “clearly” before it as if that makes it truer.

      His intent is to help HIMSELF avoid prosecution for piracy. He’ll get prosecuted and persecuted whether he’s guilty or innocent, so no real scandal here.

      That’s what you get when you harass someone. Guilty or innocent, they are forced to extremes.

    • Guest

      You’re just mad that you couldn’t get away with the SWAT team. Joined Anon and Nej under Pelouzey’s special desk yet?

    • Scary_Devil_Monastery

      “Kim is doing more harm to the piracy world now than helping it.”

      No, not really. What he is doing is just proving, in just one more way, how hopeless the pro-copyright stance really is.

      See, any legislation strict enough to stopper the new Mega will have collateral effects on legal businesses as well. A great many.

  • Truth

    Am I the only one looking at this and thinking that it is a bit nuts. They could have the exact same file uploaded a million times and Mega can’t have a million pointers to one file (plus a backup copy and checksums/hashes) like they used to have, But now (because of the encrypted data) they will actually need to store every copy of every file (encrypted with different keys) and backup copies and hashes, I know that storage is cheap these days, but it sounds like it will be very inefficient.

    • Anyone

      it will be inefficient, that’s the price for security

      but that’s Kim’s problem, not ours ;)

    • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

      I was actually just thinking about the upload/encrypt procedure, it would make more sense to have the uploaders computer (in-browser) encrypt the file before it gets uploaded, so as to save the server some cycles, I’d assume this is what he intends to do, you’d need some pretty beefy servers to handle all the encryption and file transfers at the same time.

      • Violated0

        The Mega servers are not doing any encryption/decryption of the files when beyond not having the key this would all be done in the user’s browser.

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          Ah, wasn’t sure, thanks.

  • Guest

    Imagine if a million people uploaded a copy of Lord Of The Rings Two Towers. The catch is the files are encrypted, and that it would be hard to find out if whats contained in the file is actually copyrighted material or just some random garbage? The MAFIAA would have to actively go in and decide what is and what isn’t a plausible threat, and can’t even hold Mega Upload responsible because they don’t know what you’re uploading, it’s encrypted data. If MAFIAA wants to say the encrypted data is copyrighted material, then they have the burden of proof to prove it’s copyrighted material. Mega Upload has no liability. It’s a win for Dotcom because MAFIAA is going to have to actively compile sufficient evidence to warrant any claims of copyright infringement.

    • Anyone

      every single one of the thousand files would be unique (possibly sharing filesize, not 100% sure on the encryption details)

      so even if they do get direct access again like on MU (unlikely) they can’t easily find infringing files that way, they need the encryption key

      now, if you share your files with a link and an encryption key they will know what’s in that file and can request a takedown (hopefully Kim has learned something and will simply tell them stuff it)

      in any case, Mega cannot be held liable, since they have no idea what is stored on their servers, so the MAFIAA would have to go after single Mega users, which is very costly and time consuming

  • Violated0

    I believe he is right in his prediction for two reasons.

    First is that companies want to protect themselves and their users like FaceBook now force encrypted HTTPS connections. This is only one step in much larger process of total encrypted and security.

    Second is that Governments have well demonstrated that they cannot be trusted when the Internet to them is only to be data mined. Had this only been done for law enforcement reasons then not even I would mind but these rights are subject to two main faults.

    In the United States Government departments are rampantly conducting unlawful wire tapping as a matter of general policy. Even if this is unlawful they still do it when Congress granted them immunity from being punished and where they are even too lazy to apply for a Court order.

    The abuse involved here is highlighted in the General Petreaus case when after one woman received a nasty letter in a love tiff cat fight she took it to her friend in the FBI. Clearly the powers of the FBI are NOT to be employed in personal love tiff matters and certainly not when this letter made no unlawful threats, The FBI uncovered this affair by unlawful access to his email account and publicly exposed where him and his mistress were exchanging love notes by setting draft messages which are not normally tracked when they were not sent.

    Then the second problem is that these powers the Government granted for criminal law enforcement purposes are now being misused when this same tracking technology now it exists is also being used in civil conflict matters.

    So as the First Amendment in the US Bill of Rights (The EU has its own privacy laws) grants us the right to Anonymity and Privacy until such a point where facts exist to suspect us of breaking a law then our Internet does need to be encrypted starting with VPN.

    Then the CIA, FBI, NSA and everyone else can KISS MY UNTRACEABLE BUTT.

  • JoTimmJo

    No doubt about it man, AES is the way to go! Everythign can be encrypted and should be in this day and age!

    AnonTime.tk

  • chronoss

    it does little in security to encrypt something after you send it to someone….ROFL
    he needs ot add the upload encryption client and can have it and hte user make public and private keys such that only mega and that user can upload.

    with aes your pretty tight at that point then it can get decrypted , then reencrypted for server user and handed out a key for that to go out.

    in fact this is what HE SHOULD BE DOING….fact he only encrypts on his end after you risk uploading and getting caught in transmission proves hes not on your side….
    its like screaming out your window a dope deal is going on and once it reaches your ears you encrypt it and send post it with snazing encryption.

    all one has to do is hear the transmission and your boned.

    • Anyone

      you encrypt the file before uploading to MEGA through the client
      MEGA will never know your encryption key (well, they could get it through a backdoor in the client, but in that case, why bother encrypting it at all)

      • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

        “you encrypt the file before uploading to MEGA through the client”

        Does the client encrypt it for you?
        I wonder what algorithms he’ll be using, or if he’ll even include more than one at all.

        • Violated0

          AES will be used which is a popular strong encryption method where the source is known and validated to lack weaknesses and backdoors. AES is mostly used when the encryption/decryption is to be done more quickly which will help to avoid transfer issues.

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          @Violated0

          Thanks again, Hoping he adds more then one algorithm, I understand the usage of AES, as modern processors have the AES instruction set, making it alot faster, which makes it the best option for average use; though my favorite would have to be Serpent.

      • chronoss

        thats not how mega says it will work
        he says you upload the file then the servers encrypt and give you the key to unlock it.

        thats not safe and its the upload part thats bad and then handing you a key via ssl that isnt totally secure means the whole thing is insecure should a determined person really have at it.

        the only way is as you say provide downloadable content , encrypt locally USE AES NON COMPRESSED SSL and then get your key secured form mega and upload content.

        i doubt they are doing that

  • Andrew Lee

    Honestly it should have never had to come to this and I don’t see it changing much in the world of piracy. There are plenty of dump sites where the majority of files are encrypted. Most of them have a single password but still it’s not that hard to add a encryption key to a post lol.

    I get it Dotcom was fucked very bad and it was completely unjustified. He should get Megaupload back his money and a payoff for being wronged. The people that used MU should get their files back as well as money for being robbed by their own government.

    That is something we all know but coming back this soon worries me that it’s only going to fuel the current fight. It might be a must because it’s possible they’ll never give anyone their files back and keep Dotcoms money. I guess I’m saying I just hope that it’s not as easy to fuck everyone over again. I only say that because nobody that should have learned a lesson has. “There never was no lesson to be learned by the people or Dotcom because they are in the right.”

    • ThumbsUpThumbsDown

      I think there’s real progress. Mega-Uploads recent legal history reflects that. Of course, it’s a bungee jump; but, we can see past these outcomes. Like you, I think a lot about the worst possible setbacks; and, too often they happen; but, that’s exactly why I don’t miss an opportunity to check out the silver lining when it shows up in the big picture.

      If the standard of success for Corporate Copyright Holders is what they’ve been able to achieve in the last five years, then they’re not going anywhere but down.

    • dude

      Dotcom isn’t done in court yet. The usa has realized that they fucked up. Other filesharing sites & torrent sites are still up.

  • ThumbsUpThumbsDown

    Brilliant analysis is NOT what will persuade American Politicians that the Copyright Laws should be radically modified or abolished; and, that the power and status of monopoly distributors of Intellectual Property should be reduced in favor of young emerging competitors.

    So, what WILL compel American Politicians to make other choices?

    After all, perhaps that is the light in which we should see Mega-Upload’s legal case; and, the more important good news promised by the coming Mega.

    I submit to you, that the choice for American Politicians is the same desperate binary choice they have always had: The choice between Success and Failure.

    What has changed recently (in the last decade), is that the Copyright Monopolies, whose success American Politicians had protected with written Law, began to be shown Publicly as abject economic and social failures (social failure in the sense of not being compatible with the public good).

    American Politicians did NOT have to align themselves with that Failure, but, they did; and, as the failure of Copyright Holders to control their distribution channels and repress criticism of their monopoly privilege became a Public Failure, that initial alignment has become an increasingly unbearable political burden. American Politicians will not long tolerate the pleadings of a private party that consistently connects them to ever increasing spectacles of Public Failure.

    The humiliating return of DeJaz 1 was public failure.

    The tenacious durability of Pirates Bay is Public Failure.

    The American People’s enraged rejection of PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, CISPA and TPP is vast Public Failure.

    The Continuing implosion of the case against Mega-Upload is Public Failure.

    Add up all their recent failures; and, you will have a small taste of what Mega-Upload’s success is doing to Corporate Copyright Holder’s presumptions of continued Political support in the American Political process.

    • Nodelay

      “So, what WILL compel American Politicians to make other choices?”

      When the masses ignore them and stop voting for them. Oh! and death.

  • trendy clothes

    hey it seems something new things are gonna brought…Very great….

  • Rev up that tinfoil

    5 bucks says this is a honeypot

    • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

      I’m pretty sure something of this scale, being a trap, would be Majorly Illegal, and definitely wouldn’t get passed the courts after the fact, it was known.

    • Violated0

      You will lose your 5 bucks and tinfoil hat then.

  • TheGame

    How you capture the screenshots… How to access, I wana see

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  • http://nejtillpirater.wordpress.com/ Nejtillpirater

    The solution will probably be laws requiring bandwidth throttling of all encrypted traffic that is not whitelisted (proven to not be used for copyright infringement).

    • Fredrika

      > “The solution will probably be laws requiring bandwidth throttling of all encrypted traffic..”

      Which is practically technically impossible, since encrypted traffic can’t be identified as such through dpi, without prior knowledge of that it is encrypted. Had you had any technical knowledge whatsoever you would have known this.

      Secondly, why aren’t you a bit more open about the fact that you advocate deep packet inspections of the entire earth’s communication, and that all privacy laws that strictly forbids that for very thought through reasons should go to hell?

      > “..that is not whitelisted..”

      Oh, please explain, if a person wishes to have a private high definition video conference with his lawyer or priest, or cam sex with his partner, that demands 100Mb/s bandwidth, that should not be allowed to be encrypted? Private communication should not be allowed to be encrypted?

      Or should it? And if it is, how will you technically stop them from sending each other copyrighted information in their high bandwidth encrypted data streams?

      How is it possible for you to have absolutely no logical understanding whatsoever regarding the impossibility of the solutions you suggest, when you claim that you have a Masters of Science academic degree? Usually M.Sc’s are able to think logically.

      > “..(proven to not be used for copyright infringement).”

      Wow, you don’t feel any moral problems at all with suggesting reversed burden of proof? All human rights can go to hell, whenever NoToABillionPeople thinks he has come up with a working solution(which he didn’t in this case) to a non-problem which no scientific evidence can prove even hurts society, the economy, culture, the creators, the content industry’s current record revenues or the goal with copyright the least in the first place?

      We all remember you applauded Anon when he openly advocated fascism, but you seem to want to be just as morally corrupt yourself? Any collateral damage for society is completely irrelevant when it comes to stopping a problem, that no evidence says is a problem in the first place?

      And all this because Judge Dredd told you that it is the law?

    • Werkoffski

      Free speech without anonymity and encryption is just not possible in the age of the internet I’m afraid Nejtillpirater. Do you not wish to live in a free society?

    • Scary_Devil_Monastery

      And once again NTP proves to all and sundry that he has no clue how technology works, let alone the internet.

      In short, you can’t identify encrypted traffic as encrypted. Hence your “whitelist” means throttling of every site not identified as valid.

      Which of course begs the question “identified by who?”.

      No, seriously…when we say “Not even China” you ought to realize that any nation with a market would be signing it’s own death sentence the way you envision.

  • En

    Lol don’t delude yourself Kim. Encryption has been a mass product for at least 15 years

  • Foff

    I have to weigh in on this. First everything he is doing is not for our benefit it is for him. He is trying to cover all the bases. Now as far as duplicate files go, there will be some but not as many as you think. When I see something I see it posted on a dozen sites with the same links. This means most posters just copy links they don’t bother to reupload the file.

    To him encryption means he only has to delete identified files and not constantly monitor and search the entire data base. This benefits us because reuploads won’t get deleted as quick if ever. The only weakness is that we go back to the day of passwords sort of. You must have the key for the file to be worth anything.

    I can see some sites abusing this by selling premium memberships or vip status to get keys to the best uploads.

    Finally I see no end to the game. Piracy like the drug trade cannot be stopped ever! Whatever the mafiaa attempt and whatever laws they try to put in place to slow things down will always be to little to late. The last 20 years has demonstrated that technology will always stay ahead of the ability of the legal system to adequately adjust. Laws attempting to control the internet either by speed or censorship will generally be defeated by technology before they even become law.

    I think the only solution for the industry is just to provide a great service at a good price and we might buy rather than spend hours uploading and downloading and searching. I think the mafiaa ought to just leave piracy alone. Piracy keeps the net alive without piracy the net’s need for capacity would be significantly less and there would be very little incentive to increase speeds. For many sites the internet would become a ghost town. Without piracy the net would be a very boring place to be. So really piracy is the grease the keeps the net moving and government and industry would be well advised to turn a mostly blind eye to it if they want to keep the net a vibrant and lively place to be.

  • Mary Hinge

    whilst KD has been inside he has obviously been getting it up the rear, because when he gets out, that’s what he is intending to do to everyone else. encryption is aleady widely used anyway, and is essentially pointless unless it is one on one. what is important is wether it is free, and suspect not, and in that case, it will fail

  • F@C# USA

    Too bad we won’t be alive to witness this great wonderful historic moment since the world ends in 2 weeks fml!!! I didn’t even believe in this crap until the fucking US government has confirmed that the world won’t end damn you USA

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  • John Space

    Good logo. No one can make a sphere fall to a side when hit with unfair laws.

  • Gdg

    Based on Julian Assange’s ideas. :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003257189177 Mustikos Thaumastis

    Will the files be encrypted from the client side?
    Will it be via ssl/spdy?
    Is there any MEGA repo yet on github?
    Will there be support for older browser that have no html5 support?
    Will they provide APIs for developers?

    • chronoss

      sourceforge.net
      get the aes encrypter
      and start doing that and share the keys with your buds , by time govts catch on we all are able to securely talk and they can fuck the hell off. oh and welcome to the scene as this activity has been done there for what 20 years ?

      its why you idiots that are public get fucked up your asses so much BRAINPOWER defeats the maffia every day …..trust me i know…i could die right now knowing what i have contributed and they are the losers….

      and you dont need html 5 to upload files what i do suggest is that you pass your keys personally to your friend and if they get found public you know whom a leak is too.
      keep track and make differant key for each file keep those offline to share with and encrypt them also haha…

  • Merry XXX-MAS

    Can’t wait to jerk off at all those encrypted granny porn clips.

    • chronoss

      you mean old crusty donkey grannies you sick fuck

  • Guest w/ mustard

    10inch wrinkles for your dezoom playas..

  • Werkoffski

    Hey Kim, if you’re reading this. How about a choice of Twofish and Serpent ciphers as well as the default AES, and a choice for using a 4096 bit RSA keypair too.

    If all encryption is carried out client side I guess you will be using javascript right? How can you prevent man in the middle attacks being carried out to ‘spy’ on what is being uploaded?

    Look forward to the source code Kim ;)

  • chronoss

    heres what i dont get ….

    there are clients you can AES your files….
    just encrypt and share with your buds …you dont need megaupload to do shit for you…if he dont generate a key he cant be held liable too …

    • Werkoffski

      Too true chronoss, apps like Truecrypt make strong encryption so easy there is no excuse but laziness and indifference.

  • EricPost

    And someone will yell “Child porn” and the whole encryption scheme will come under the microscope and collapse

    • Guest

      Someone should shout “child porn” being in the MPAA but i doubt they will be shutdown for an investigation.

    • Scary_Devil_Monastery

      Um. How?

      Literally. How? Through magic? Reversed burden of proof? More draconian laws than even in Iran?

      Literally. HOW?

      Oh, though I do believe the MPAA will be standing around hollering “child porn” a lot. After all, Child porn is the Ifpi’s favourite thing in the world – Google Johan Schlüter’s “Child porn is great” comment.

      Very few pirates share the preferences of the head of the danish ifpi though.

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  • youRasYoudo

    I keep seeing a lot of flapping. But nothing in the way of doing. It’s like when you start to forget about the fat ass, he comes back and starts promising unicorns that crap rainbows.

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      Dippy drip, he has said that this wouldn’t be up until January 2013 for quite awhile now.

  • Sosad

    Talking about encryption? his needs embarked VPN client and anonymous method of payment. If not, thats only full trash.
    Also, on the screenshot, the UP speed seems poor.
    We will see…
    Good luck KDC

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    Kim Dotcom is a nasty man who has been fined many times for ripping off MILLIONS of dollars… but he is going to get alot of people angry with this. Can’t wait for the next wave of methods for sustainining internet FREEDOM!

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  • JOhn

    Mmm… perhaps Kim should have done a whois search first before creating a new domain. Apparently Mega.com is taken:
    MEGA is an analyst-recognized industry leader in business process analysis, enterprise architecture and governance, risk and compliance, and continues to expand its global reach.

    MEGA ‘s subsidiaries and distribution partners in the world include: France, Germany, Italy, Mexico & Latin America, the United-Kingdom, the United States, and more.

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