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> 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. 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.
The DMCA Safe Harbor works fine for companies that aren't PURPOSEFULLY attempting to violate copyright. Just don't make the mistake of getting caught berating employees for taking down infringing material, don't get caught figuring out what users upload the best pirated material so you can reward them, don't get caught ordering employees to work on improving the quality of pirated files on your site, and you won't have the problems Mr. Dotcom (who did all the aforementioned things) had with staying under the Safe Harbor.
> and you won't have the problems Mr. Dotcom (who did all the aforementioned things) had
This is simply false. Legitimate non-infringing websites have been seized by the U.S. justice department without due process.[1] There is a reason to have due process and innocent until proven guilty; the reason is that otherwise power is abused by those with the power.
On the other hand the lack of due process is significant, what good will it be for you when your domain/machines are seized for months before you can prove you are legit?
Or, alternatively, do all that, without getting caught, to drive traffic, until you are a household name and get acquired by everyone's favorite advertising multinational. Then everyone'll forget your humble beginnings.
"The new Mega encrypts and decrypts your data transparently in your browser, on the fly. You hold the keys to what you store in the cloud, not us."
For me this is the most important bit of the website. That bit demonstrates the dedication of building something that will be very hard to shut down.
If you combine this with the VPN tunneling at the backend to obfuscate parties for the final host and content (similar to what piratebay did a month ago according to the news)- it has the potential to become very powerful and take a good share of torrents traffic.
So why not a .onion? You can set it up so that name resolution goes through Tor, but you still connect directly to the IP, if you're after speed. He could even manage to get mega.onion.
It doesn't work like that. Reaching a .onion involves going through six proxies. You can't connect directly to its IP, because you don't know what it is and it probably doesn't listen on a public interface anyway.
It will be the best thing to happen to the TOR network - thousands of new (mostly non-exit, but still) nodes carrying all sorts of legal and illegal traffic.
As someone who lives in New Zealand, I think that its only a matter of time before the domain name is seized. This whole MegaUpload affair has shown that the US government has quite a lot of sway over the NZ government and in my opinion I don't think they will stop until he's extradited to the US and put behind bars.
Assange is still chill-banging. Sipping Aguardiente. Schmoozing Ecuadorian diplomats. Yelling shit about the commander-in-chief out from the balcony to the glassy-eyed press [1].
As for Mr. DotCom, don't hold your breath. NZ is still busy kissing his arse [2].
The NZ courts have been quite good in the MegaUpload case. However the NZ government has shown that its happy to essentially overrule decisions of the courts if it doesn't like the decision.
Although Kim has become a bit of a celebrity in NZ now, he's even looking at funding a program to bring free fibre optic to NZ. ( http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7904696/Dot... ) So the government may not do something too hasty as it would cause a large amount of public backlash.
Last I heard Assange was still stuck in Ecuador's London embassy, which is what your linked article seems to imply too. Not exactly as rosy a situation as you're implying.
Did anybody actually ever host "important files" on MegaUpload? I know people say they did, but did they actually? If they did that's just plain stupid.
MU was the only site that allowed unregistered users to upload large files with unregistered downloads, making it a great way to distribute customized Linux live CD images.
I am interested in which technology he would use to encrypt/decrypt the data in the browser. Most web-tools I've seen have a strict limit on number of bytes that can be encrypted in a userfriendly process.
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> 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. 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.
This is simply false. Legitimate non-infringing websites have been seized by the U.S. justice department without due process.[1] There is a reason to have due process and innocent until proven guilty; the reason is that otherwise power is abused by those with the power.
[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120505dajaz1
http://static.kim.com/mega/release/css/index.css?v=8
http://static.kim.com/mega/release/js/main.js?v=8
I wonder how long the "kim.com" domain will last?
For me this is the most important bit of the website. That bit demonstrates the dedication of building something that will be very hard to shut down.
If you combine this with the VPN tunneling at the backend to obfuscate parties for the final host and content (similar to what piratebay did a month ago according to the news)- it has the potential to become very powerful and take a good share of torrents traffic.
That pesky browser thing never could do anything of value. Umm...Dah... What a joke! It's all "boondoggle"!
It unquestionably couldn't ever be used to build "apps" [1].
Certainly could never ever be fast enough [2].
Obviously cannot ever possibly utilise multiple cores [3].
Most definitely never ever could do 3D [4].
So, you're right, I doubt it will ever do crypto [5].
Those fools might even consider "Online Banking" or something crazy like that!
When will those stupid browser idiots learn?
http://alwaysbetonjs.com
[1] http://facebook.com, http://gmail.com, http://twitter.com, etc.
[2] http://arewefastyet.com - http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/
[3] http://w3.org/TR/workers - http://chromium.org/developers/design-documents
[4] http://khronos.org/webgl - http://chromeexperiments.com/webgl - http://ro.me
[5] http://w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Assange is still chill-banging. Sipping Aguardiente. Schmoozing Ecuadorian diplomats. Yelling shit about the commander-in-chief out from the balcony to the glassy-eyed press [1].
As for Mr. DotCom, don't hold your breath. NZ is still busy kissing his arse [2].
[1] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-labels...
[2] http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-spy-108/
Although Kim has become a bit of a celebrity in NZ now, he's even looking at funding a program to bring free fibre optic to NZ. ( http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7904696/Dot... ) So the government may not do something too hasty as it would cause a large amount of public backlash.
"Make us an offer. We prefer unmetered fixed monthly payments."
Right. And I want a flying Llama that poops gold bars.
Unmetered != unlimited.
There's still going to be a maximum capacity for the connection, and for unmetered connections that's the basis used to price it.
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For anyone missing it, "mega.co.nz" -> Mega Conz -> Mega Cons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
then i realization sunk in.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt