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With Twitter rolling out the two-factor authentication just a few hours ago, Kim Dotcom takes a step forward and says that he’s the inventor of this feature. And he has a patent to prove it. The Megaupload founder didn’t come up with this type of authentication yesterday, but a long time ago. The patent... |
23 May 2013
02:37 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom and all those involved in the extradition battle in New Zealand might have a new chance to win the fight. So far, Kim Dotcom’s team of lawyers could not have access to all the relevant documents the U.S. Government relied on in their case, The New Zealand Herald reports. Now, this might change as... |
16 May 2013
07:24 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom has changed his mind about the blueprints for the 3D gun that Mega stored on its website last week.
After the U.S. State Department demanded that the designer of the world’s first fully printable gun remove the files from his network, Mega committed to keep them safe online in his offshore servers.... |
13 May 2013
01:51 GMT |
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The case against Megaupload is once more in the center of attention as they try to get the court throw out the criminal indictment against them and to ultimately end the case.
The Megaupload team is accusing the Obama administration of being corrupted by Hollywood and major corporations and says that the entire cri... |
10 May 2013
03:04 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom is planning to release further privacy-centric services, such as an encrypted email service, but also an instant messaging service. Dotcom tells the New Zealand Herald that they are working on encrypted email and IM in a Q&A session. “They key to make encryption a global success is ease of use. S... |
8 May 2013
06:07 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom has been teasing a big reveal for months, but he is an expert on creating hype. The wait is over, as MegaUpload's legal team has put together a white paper describing the alleged abuses of the US government in pursuing MegaUpload. The white paper goes into detail on how due process was bypassed and ... |
7 May 2013
08:40 GMT |
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BitTorrent has been around for years and, while some are still only now discovering it, several other, more "modern" options have come along since. Most popular file sharing technologies eventually get replaced by newer ones.
For BitTorrent, it looked like cyberlockers would be that replacement. Even as recently as ... |
1 April 2013
13:21 GMT |
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The MegaUpload case is proving more trouble than it's worth for New Zealand. At the behest of the US, local authorities used whatever they could to bring down MegaUpload and Kim Dotcom, including the Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand's spy agency.
The GCSB, as in most seemingly democra... |
7 March 2013
04:11 GMT |
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Mega isn't even two months old, but Kim Dotcom is already thinking about taking it public. In a job posting seeking for a Chief Financial Officer for the young company, Mega revealed that it envisioned fast growth and possibly even an IPO within the next 18 months.
"Due to some aggressive growth plans, we requi... |
5 March 2013
10:31 GMT |
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The MegaUpload saga continues more than one year after the site was shut down and Kim Dotcom arrested. Dotcom has launched a new site in the meantime, the relatively popular Mega, but his legal troubles are far from gone.
He's been battling the US government over its extradition request and has now lost in an a... |
1 March 2013
04:22 GMT |
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It's been more than a year since MegaUpload was shut down and, while Kim Dotcom & co. are now closer to making their case in a court of law, the raid has been a massive success for the media companies that ordered it. Not only was MegaUpload – one of the largest pirate havens – gone, but many other... |
4 February 2013
08:06 GMT |
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The recently launched Mega service has caused a lot of controversy. The site is not working properly, some security issues have been identified and, even Anonymous hackers have turned their back on it, calling Kim Dotcom a snitch.
One year ago, when US authorities took down Megaupload, the Anonymous movement wa... |
22 January 2013
03:14 GMT |
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With Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage and sharing site only a couple of days away, more details are getting out, straight from the man himself. On his popular Twitter account, Dotcom revealed that free users will get some 50 GB of storage out of the box. "#Mega will have very generous limits for free users. For... |
17 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's Mega is only a few days away, if the scheduled launch day, this Saturday, is kept. Dotcom wants to launch the new site on the anniversary of the raid that killed the old MegaUpload.
He's been talking about it for months, he leaked some screenshots and explained how the storage service will wo... |
16 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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It's going to be a long while before Kim Dotcom can get to his old life back, even if he is found not guilty, as the case surrounding MegaUpload keeps on crawling along.
The most recent developments come from the US side, where MegaUpload is trying to prove that at least some of the evidence used against it wa... |
15 January 2013
10:25 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom is known for many things, but being subtle isn't one of them. So there was no doubt that the launch of his upcoming storage service, Mega, won't be low key. In fact, Dotcom is promising just that, a launch event like no other, at the Dotcom mansion no less.
"Members of the media who like to be... |
28 December 2012
11:03 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's upcoming Mega cloud storage and sharing service is becoming more "real" with each new day. The latest example is the first storage rack that's supposed to serve the new site which is going live in about a month. Dotcom revealed the photo and shared a bit of details.
The rack has 720 terabytes ... |
19 December 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Dotcom's upcoming MegaUpload revival, dubbed simply Mega is taking some small steps from being pure vaporware to something that may actually exist.
The entrepreneur has posted the first screenshots of the upcoming cloud service, showing off some of the key aspects.
The shots show the login page, the encryptio... |
8 December 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's fortunes are getting better and better. He still has an extradition case to fight, but a New Zealand court decided he can now seek a full disclosure of what the country's spy agency has gathered on him and sue for damages for the illegal surveillance and the raid at his mansion a year ago.
It ... |
6 December 2012
05:57 GMT |
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The fact piracy is not all negative and that pirated content can actually end up making more money for its owners is not contested by anyone outside of the big media companies. But studies showing the benefits of piracy, or the damages for that matter, are few and far between.One interesting recent study showed that ... |
24 November 2012
18:11 GMT |
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and US President Barack Obama met today at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia. Apparently, one of their topics of discussion was the controversial fonder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom.
According to Stuff.co.nz, the officials didn’t reveal what, if any, conclusion was reached regar... |
20 November 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Megaupload, the popular file sharing service taken down earlier this year, wasn’t utilized only for piracy purposes, many users relying on the site to store their personal files. However, it turns out that US authorities didn’t care about them when they asked for warrants to seize the Megaupload files. ... |
19 November 2012
07:15 GMT |
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The plans to launch the new Mega service on the Me.ga domain didn’t materialize because the Gabon government wasn’t too thrilled with the idea. However, Kim Dotcom hasn’t been discouraged and now he has announced that the new site’s home will be New Zealand.
“New Zealand will be the hom... |
12 November 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom has been talking big lately. Granted, he's been talking big all his life, but it intensified after MegaUpload was busted. He's now working on Mega, a new file sharing site set to launch in January, he's also working on Megabox, a music service, and now he's said to be interested in re... |
5 November 2012
05:17 GMT |
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The new Mega, designed to replace MegaUpload and do a much better job at helping people host and share files online, is seeing the first signs of life. The site is not ready yet, it should go live sometime early in 2013, but Kim Dotcom is going ahead with the preparations and has launched a page for people to sign ... |
1 November 2012
09:58 GMT |
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The MegaUpload saga continues, as usual. Users hoping to retrieve lost files they stored on MegaUpload, for safekeeping, are going to have to wait for a long time, that's if the judge decides they can retrieve their data. One Ohio man, Kyle Goodwin, with the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the... |
1 November 2012
05:14 GMT |
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The odds and the law may be against it, but Kim Dotcom is determined to have Mega, the new file sharing/hosting site, up and running soon enough.
Granted, it's all been promises and hype so far, but Dotcom promises the new site will be ready and will launch on the exact same day that MegaUpload was raided and ... |
26 October 2012
10:55 GMT |
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While Kim Dotcom and co. are still stuck in New Zealand waiting for their extradition hearing, authorities in the US are doing the best they can to block any kind of defense MegaUpload might put up.
Not only that, US prosecutors warn that Dotcom shouldn't be able to restart MegaUpload or any similar company un... |
26 October 2012
05:43 GMT |
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The new Mega is close to becoming a reality. While Kim Dotcom is still fighting for the first MegaUpload and that case will take a few years to reach a conclusion, the entrepreneur has been working on a new service for the past few months.
This new site will focus on file hosting as well, but it's not an exact... |
18 October 2012
12:10 GMT |
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It's no secret that Kim Dotcom is working on what he calls the new "Mega," despite the mainstream media only now picking it up.
He's been teasing a new site for several weeks now and, though he's provided no details so far, he says the code is "90 percent done" and that the new site is only a few wee... |
11 October 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Not long ago, it was revealed that MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom and another employee of the company were spied upon by New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, its external security agency.
This wasn't just an overreach, it was illegal as the GCSB doesn't have the right to spy on citiz... |
5 October 2012
11:11 GMT |
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There's now some hope that MegaUpload users will get their data back, even though it's a slim one. At the very least, the lawsuit brought against the US government by one MegaUpload user is going forward as the judge in the case said that hearings were needed to decide who was responsible for the data and w... |
5 October 2012
02:46 GMT |
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New Zealand’s Inspector General of Intelligence and Security Paul Neazor concluded the investigation that targeted the surveillance carried out by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) on Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload.
After hearing the news, the country’s Prime Minister apologized... |
27 September 2012
09:38 GMT |
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John Key, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, has ordered an investigation that targets the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) - the country’s spy agency -, which is suspected of conducting unlawful surveillance in the Megaupload case.
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security will have ... |
24 September 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Those still waiting to get their stuff from MegaUpload back have more waiting to do. Not that waiting is a guarantee that they'll get their data back, but it's all they've got.
Users that lost important or valuable data when MegaUpload was unilaterally shut down by the US government have been trying ... |
14 September 2012
05:42 GMT |
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Last week, Filesonic mysteriously went offline. Granted, it wasn't really much of a mystery, it was pretty obvious that the site was done for and was being sold for parts.
At the time, its .com domain had already been sold to another company, from the Seychelles.
But it's local domains were still live an... |
3 September 2012
10:12 GMT |
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MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom has been very talkative lately. Granted, he's never been a shy person, but since he was allowed to use the internet again, a few months ago, he's been very active on Twitter. Most recently, he tweeted about plans for a new MegaUpload, a new service that would be even bigger an... |
3 September 2012
09:37 GMT |
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The case against MegaUpload may not be going as smooth as the media corporations hoped, but that's assuming Hollywood actually wants Kim Dotcom and company to go to jail. Obviously, jail time would be a nice bonus, but one major goal has already been achieved, MegaUpload was nuked out of the web and it took seve... |
31 August 2012
11:34 GMT |
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MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom spent yesterday boasting about an upcoming Mega 2.0 relaunch/revamp. There aren't that many details, but Dotcom is asking developers to get involved. Of course, starting a new business, or remaking an old one, requires money, quite a lot of it, and money is the one thing that Dotco... |
29 August 2012
12:11 GMT |
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While the case against MegaUpload's owners may not be going so great, with the authorities constantly messing something up, at least the raid accomplished something, it wiped out MegaUpload off the face of the web.
Or at least, that seemed to be the case until now, even if Kim Dotcom is ultimately successful i... |
28 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom continues to win victory after victory. They may be minor ones but they are important. The latest is that the FBI and the local prosecution will have to allow Dotcom and his lawyers to see much of the evidence that is going to be used against him in the US, should he be extradited. The US Department of... |
16 August 2012
09:11 GMT |
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If there's one thing to take away from the Demonoid disaster, it's that the pro-copyright groups have learned their lesson, and fast. No, the lesson isn't that taking down a site will only lead to people moving to the next one and will have no effect on piracy, the lesson they learned, much like with S... |
13 August 2012
13:11 GMT |
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The MegaUpload case is proceeding, albeit slowly. But such a complicated case covers a lot of issues. There's the lawsuit against the company, in the US, the extradition order for some of its employees, plus various investigations into the raid in New Zealand.
Kim Dotcom was arrested at his home by a swarm of p... |
8 August 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Kim Dotcom, the founder of MegaUpload asked the court to grant him permission to record an album. At the time, he was still in jail and had all his accounts frozen. Surprisingly or not, a judge allowed him to visit the studio for several hours a week to record said album.
Well, all the hard work i... |
20 July 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The MegaUpload case isn't going well for the American government and the corporations behind it, or at least, it's not going as well as they might have expected. With Dotcom and his "co-conspirators'" extradition hearings pushed back to next year, the battle is being waged in the US as well.
For one, ... |
19 July 2012
07:18 GMT |
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MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom is making a very risky bet, upset that his extradition hearing has been pushed back and that his business is going to stay closed that much longer.
Thus he's asking the US Department of Justice to unfreeze money for his legal defense. In exchange, he'll come to the US voluntar... |
11 July 2012
04:39 GMT |
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The MegaUpload case, perhaps unsurprisingly, is not going well for the FBI and the lobbying groups behind it. The extradition hearing of Kim Dotcom, who has been labeled as the "kingpin" of this allegedly illegal business, has been pushed back from August to March 2013, at the earliest.
This may look like a victory ... |
10 July 2012
04:34 GMT |
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The case against Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload is looking increasingly weak. The New Zealand High Court has found that the warrant used to raid Dotcom's house was illegal. What's more, having data taken from the house handed over to the FBI was also illegal.
What this means is that the FBI won't be able ... |
28 June 2012
05:11 GMT |
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The MegaUpload drama continues to unfold. While the extradition hearing is not until August, there's still plenty of legal maneuvering to do. In a move that the US government is likely finding outrageous, as it's wont to do, a New Zealand judge had the audacity to ask the prosecutors to prepare a copy of th... |
16 June 2012
09:21 GMT |
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MegaUpload users that have lost their files in the takedown may have a chance to get them back. Plenty of people had used the service legally, uploading their own files for safekeeping. In some cases, those were the only copies of those files and quite a few are left with no way of retrieving them.
But several group... |
7 June 2012
10:21 GMT |
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