Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz

http://mega.co.nz/

by denzil_correa • 14 years ago

91 73 14 years ago

mega.co.nz

wattonen• 14 years ago

Metro UI? Microsoft is an one of the MEGA investors? :)

Rastafarian2• 14 years ago

I guess you can say that. There will be lots of MS bits in, once the site goes up :D

m_d• 14 years ago

Mega Conz? Really?

jgroome• 14 years ago

First thing I noticed too!

For anyone missing it, "mega.co.nz" -> Mega Conz -> Mega Cons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

robin_reala• 14 years ago

The perils of country-specific TLDs. Spare a thought for the poor Cook Islanders.

stefs• 14 years ago

at first i interpreted it as "megacunts" - a nasty joke i wouldn't put past kom dotcom.

then i realization sunk in.

citricsquid• 14 years ago

Maybe his backup plan is a blog about his life.

Rastafarian2• 14 years ago

Or about the music and movie industry?

AmVess• 14 years ago

Under 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.

gerhardi• 14 years ago

Unmetered non-US servers with monthly payments are not that rare commodity nowadays.. well, especially when compared to gold bar crapping camelids :)

vidarh2• 14 years ago

Are 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• 14 years ago

Check 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• 14 years ago

LOL 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..

jcr2• 14 years ago

The 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/js/main.js?v=8

I wonder how long the "kim.com" domain will last?

oelmekki• 14 years ago

What's so hilarous about it ? That's just concatenated / compressed sources.

HyprMusic• 14 years ago

I wonder how long his surname will be kept as dotcom? kim dotcodotnz?

axx• 14 years ago

I think you must differentiate between his tiny onepager and the official site. I guess they'll know better.

tzs• 14 years ago

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.

koide• 14 years ago

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?

ovi256• 14 years ago

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.

bo10242• 14 years ago

> 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.

[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120505dajaz1

andrewbaron• 14 years ago

Due to the potential for shutdown even outside of the U.S., will people feel safe hosting important files on the site?

kamjam2• 14 years ago

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.

nitrogen• 14 years ago

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.

mochizuki• 14 years ago

Beautiful design. But I'm getting an error when I try to sign up to be an API partner. Anyone else?

dutchbrit• 14 years ago

Works here

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

Until

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Tell

dmix2• 14 years ago

Not only that, torrents are totally sufficient when done properly.

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

Imagine "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!

thechut• 14 years ago

YES!!!

jamesflorentino2• 14 years ago

Am I the only here who's seeing "Domain Parked with Instra"?

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

More or less.

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=mega.co.nz

jamesflorentino2• 14 years ago

That's crazy. I had to open it up in TOR to see the actual site. Could it be my ISP?

ARama2• 14 years ago

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.

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

Yeah, 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...

[2] http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-spy-108/

vidarh2• 14 years ago

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.

ARama2• 14 years ago

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.

a1vd• 14 years ago

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.

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

If you look this way ^ we're discussing this.

AhtiK4• 14 years ago

I suspect they could use data URL scheme as in RFC2397.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt

anonymous2• 14 years ago

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.

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

The first rule...

anonymous2• 14 years ago

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.

benologist• 14 years ago

... is that it's 2012, digg is dead and nobody cares for the tired old memes that somehow outlasted it.

haakon• 14 years ago

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.

nnq• 14 years ago

...jeez, thought that by now the guy thought of a different business model

danielweber2• 14 years ago

Once 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

AhtiK4• 14 years 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.

danielweber2• 14 years ago

"Encryption in the browser" just screams "boondoggle" to me.

AhtiK4• 14 years ago

Why?

pyrotechnick10• 14 years ago

Finally 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].