Kim Dotcom’s Mega hits a new barrier
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom’s new cloud-storage service has been accused of serving as a platform for committing copyright violations, according to Gabon’s communications minister.
Gabon’s involvement in the issue comes due to Dotcom hosting his new service – simply called Mega – on a Gabon-based domain, to give it the url “Me.ga”.
Mega was created to prevent US law from taking control of the service, as it allows users to share files that will be encrypted with a key that only those users will have access to.
It would now seem as if the Gabonese authorities are the ones that Dotcom has to worry about.
“The [new] site is not even functional yet,” said Ira Rothken, the Silicon Valley attorney who oversees MegaUpload’s worldwide defense. “MegaUpload and Kim are innocent and presumed innocent. It sounds like a lack of net neutrality in Gabon… We’re just going to use a different domain.”
Source: Stuff.co.nz
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