Kim Dotcom launches new privacy site

[marmar]

Kim Dotcom launches new privacy site
In defiance of U.S. prosecutors, the MegaUpload founder goes live with an encrypted file-sharing site

By Natasha Lennard


(Salon) Kim Dotcom is taking Mega to the next step. The New Zealand hacker, who faces extradition to the U.S. over charges that his former file-sharing cite facilitated mass online privacy, launched new file-sharing site Sunday. Simply named “Mega,” the new offers encrypted cloud storage.

With a gala and launch party at his New Zealand home, the hacker celebrated Mega’s launch exactly one year after the New Zealand authorities raided the mansion and shuttered Megaupload. According to reports, the party even featured a spoof raid re-enactment.

Dotcom said half a million users registered for Mega in its first 14 hours, the AP reported. Mega, which Dotcom has dubbed “the privacy company,” functions similarly to cloud storage platforms like Dropbox but with encryption and decryption of files as standard. This not only offers privacy for users, but protection for the company itself. Only users hold the keys for decoding files; Mega can’t see the content of the shared files and thus, according to DotCom, can’t be held liable (as he was for copyright infringing materials shared over MegaUpload). .......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/20/kim_dotcom_launches_new_privacy_site/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Good!

K/R

[reorg]

2. video of press conference is on youtube

Key note:

Links to other parts:

http://gizmodo.com/5977414/watch-all-of-kim-dotcoms-totally-ludicrous-mega-launch-event

[frylock]

3. FUDOJ..

fucking eat it, Holder.