{"id":64550,"date":"2012-11-13T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T09:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64550"},"modified":"2012-11-13T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T09:30:17","slug":"kim-dotcoms-mega-returns-to-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/64550-kim-dotcoms-mega-returns-to-nz.html","title":{"rendered":"Kim Dotcom\u2019s Mega returns to NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Kim Dotcom has returned his new service to a New Zealand domain after being suspended by the Gabon government.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Dotcom\u2019s original plan was to register and operate his new file-sharing service, Mega, from a Gabon domain, giving it the url: \u201cMe.ga\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Gabonese authorities suspended the site for providing a platform for committing copyright violations.<\/p>\n<p>Dotcom has now moved the service\u2019s home to an NZ domain, Mega.co.nz, saying that it will be better-protected by the NZ government and laws.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2012\/11\/12\/mega-kim-dotcom\/1699193\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Kim Dotcom\u2019s revival plans\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/62624-kim-dotcoms-revival-plans.html\">Kim Dotcom\u2019s revival plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/55321-megaupload-boss-predicts-victory-against-hollywood.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Megaupload boss predicts victory against Hollywood<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/54619-megaupload-boss-heading-to-us-to-face-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Megaupload boss heading to US to face charges<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dotcom heads home to secure a safer future for file-sharing service, Mega<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":53543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8291,16296,8293,15265,7979],"class_list":["post-64550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-kim-dotcom","tag-mega","tag-megaupload","tag-new-zealand","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64716,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64550\/revisions\/64716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}