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Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
- wattonen 14y agoMetro UI? Microsoft is an one of the MEGA investors? :)
- Rastafarian 14y agoI guess you can say that. There will be lots of MS bits in, once the site goes up :D
- m_d 14y agoMega Conz? Really?
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- jgroome 14y agoFirst thing I noticed too! For anyone missing it, "mega.co.nz" -> Mega Conz -> Mega Cons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
- robin_reala 14y agoThe perils of country-specific TLDs. Spare a thought for the poor Cook Islanders.
- username3 14y agoco.ck
- stefs 14y agoat first i interpreted it as "megacunts" - a nasty joke i wouldn't put past kom dotcom. then i realization sunk in.
- citricsquid 14y agoMaybe his backup plan is a blog about his life.
- Rastafarian 14y agoOr about the music and movie industry?
- AmVess 14y agoUnder How to become a hosting partner: "Make us an offer. We prefer unmetered fixed monthly payments." Right. And I want a flying Llama that poops gold bars.
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- gerhardi 14y agoUnmetered non-US servers with monthly payments are not that rare commodity nowadays.. well, especially when compared to gold bar crapping camelids :)
- vidarh 14y agoAre you implying that finding unmetered fixed monthly payments is hard? Because it's not. 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.
- switz 14y agoCheck out the Limitations beneath the "How to become a Hosting Partner" page. > 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.
- kator 14y agoLOL I just posted the same thing.. In some ways you can argue that he knows better then most what is "really" happening on that front..
- jcr 14y agoThe more hilarious bit is only seen by viewing the source... http://static.kim.com/mega/release/css/index.css?v=8 http://static.kim.com/mega/release/css/index.css?v=8 http://static.kim.com/mega/release/js/main.js?v=8 http://static.kim.com/mega/release/js/main.js?v=8 I wonder how long the "kim.com" domain will last?
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- andrewbaron 14y agoDue to the potential for shutdown even outside of the U.S., will people feel safe hosting important files on the site?
- kamjam 14y agoDid 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.
- nitrogen 14y agoMU 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.
- kamjam 14y agoSure, i've used a couple of upload sites recently to transfer large files... but never anything that was actually important, i didn't have local backups of or couldn't be easily replicated. I've read about people trying to get their files back off the servers and all the other hoo-ha going on, and have nothing against people trying to do that or using the excuse that it was their main backup... just seems extremely silly to rely on it form my point of view. It's not possible to rely on Google, for fear of them shutting down your account for some violation or T&Cs (and no recourse for appeals), so to rely on these kinds of companies... Not sure why I got down votes for a genuine question.
- mochizuki 14y agoBeautiful design. But I'm getting an error when I try to sign up to be an API partner. Anyone else?
- dutchbrit 14y agoWorks here
- pyrotechnick 14y agoUntil Some Enquire None Ever Tell
- dmix 14y agoNot only that, torrents are totally sufficient when done properly.
- pyrotechnick 14y agoImagine "torrents ... done properly". Imagine some kind of worldwide system, without a central server and dedicated administrator, distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another. In your dreams!
- dmix 14y agoSo why is golden the rule of usenet, to not talk about it? Because if people did, anti-piracy companies would start paying attention to it. Therfore making it way more expensive to run Usenet servers and expose users to legal risk. It's success depends on its relative obscurity. You have to provide a credit card to use Usenet (unless you use bitcoins). Making it easy to be targeted. Torrents "done properly" can be completely anonymous for everyone involved and still free. So I don't agree that the problem was completely solved by Usenet. Despite being a happy Usenet + NZBmatrix user (oops broke the rule :p).
- Karunamon 14y ago>You have to provide a credit card to use Usenet (unless you use bitcoins). Making it easy to be targeted. Which does nothing but say you accessed the server- not what for. Furthermore, the better providers don't keep logs.
- foobarqux 14y agoUsenet is hardly without flaws. - Comparatively costly - Native indexing is not available. 3rd party indexes are not distributed - RAR files - Does not support streaming as is - Feedback and rating system is worse (many small 3rd parties, fewer users, files do not persist). - Easily susceptible to poisoning - Easily susceptible to censorship and takedowns (few usenet backends). - etc
- jamesflorentino 14y agoAm I the only here who's seeing "Domain Parked with Instra"?
- pyrotechnick 14y agoMore or less. http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=mega.co.nz http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=mega.co.nz
- jamesflorentino 14y agoThat's crazy. I had to open it up in TOR to see the actual site. Could it be my ISP?
- pyrotechnick 14y agoDepends on your DNS; which, yes, most likely depends on your ISP. You could try OpenDNS or "8.8.8.8" or something. If you choose to change, please be aware of the implications.
- ARama 14y agoAs 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.
- pyrotechnick 14y agoYeah, because that old trick still works. 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-obama-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/story-fnd134gw-1226512743231 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-labels... [2] http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-spy-108/ http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-spy-108/
- vidarh 14y agoLast 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.
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- ARama 14y agoThe 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/Dotcom-trumpets-free-fibre 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.
- a1vd 14y agoI 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.
- pyrotechnick 14y agoIf you look this way ^ we're discussing this.
- AhtiK 14y agoI suspect they could use data URL scheme as in RFC2397. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt
- anonymous 14y agoSo 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.
- pyrotechnick 14y agoThe first rule...
- anonymous 14y agoIt 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.
- pyrotechnick 14y agoTOR is THEIR network.
- benologist 14y ago... is that it's 2012, digg is dead and nobody cares for the tired old memes that somehow outlasted it.
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- xtracto 14y agoWow, I can't believe I just read someone referencing a Usenet meme thinking it was originated in Digg. September did never end uh?
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- nnq 14y ago...jeez, thought that by now the guy thought of a different business model
- danielweber 14y agoOnce you do something, you keep on doing it. Check out what happened to Peter Popoff after James Randi and Johnny Carson busted him in the 80's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdlX_Wn1K4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdlX_Wn1K4
- AhtiK 14y ago"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.
- danielweber 14y ago"Encryption in the browser" just screams "boondoggle" to me.
- AhtiK 14y agoWhy?
- pyrotechnick 14y agoFinally someone with some brains! 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 http://alwaysbetonjs.com [1] http://facebook.com http://facebook.com, http://gmail.com http://gmail.com, http://twitter.com http://twitter.com, etc. [2] http://arewefastyet.com http://arewefastyet.com - http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/ http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/ [3] http://w3.org/TR/workers http://w3.org/TR/workers - http://chromium.org/developers/design-documents http://chromium.org/developers/design-documents [4] http://khronos.org/webgl http://khronos.org/webgl - http://chromeexperiments.com/webgl http://chromeexperiments.com/webgl - http://ro.me http://ro.me [5] http://w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/ http://w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
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