Kim Dotcom Reveals New "Mega" Strategy

[James Joseph Emerald]

I'd venture to guess that if this service just popped up quietly with no past history or affiliations that you'd have little issue with it.
Encryption isn't new, and neither is spreading cloud data around.
Tools are amoral not immoral.

Well, you're correct in that if I didn't know the founder was taking such deliberate measures to circumvent the law I wouldn't be as irritated.
But this is such an egregious (and egotistically juvenile) attempt to give the finger to the authorities. It's not about freedom or privacy, it's about a guy who is so smugly self-absorbed he named himself after his own shady business, who makes use of legal loopholes to get away with criminal activity.

It's people's complacency that really pisses me off though. It's all well and good until it's your work being leaked or naked pictures of your daughter being passed around. Then it's "why can't the feds help me this is bullshit how did the world get like this?"

 

[IamLEAM1983]

That sounds pretty solid. I'm curious to see how the single-user encryption key system's going to deter pirates, though, because I kind of doubt it will. I give it six months before we start hearing about filesharing boards swapping keys for stuff like "REAL.LEGiT.ADOBE.PHOTOSHOP.FULLCRACK.EXE".

Either that or the rest of the berjillion services still playing host to pirated stuff and ignoring it see a massive swell in their client base, with Dotcom's previous fat load of cash shrinking as the pirates and enablers leave Mega for the scant few people who won't bother with USB thumb drives or email attachments.

 

[KiKiweaky]

Well i take it files are going to have to be named arent they? Is this just going to be for personal storage or will other user be able to access your stuff?

I mean if you have "Game of Thrones series 3" on a filename how can you void your responsibility for holding copyrighted content? Governments are under increasing pressure to clamp down on this sort of thing. The nutters in the witchhunt they started to bring Dotcom down in the first place are hardly going to walk to walk away shaking their heads saying "Encrytion ha! Should have thought of that" worst case they can always change the laws which they have already tried.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

Do...do you hear that?...it...sounds like...money...piles upon piles of money...and laughing...

(Overall the idea sounds pretty good from a security and privacy standpoint, and benefits from being direct downloading rather than a Torrent system).