"The King of Piracy" return to the cloud storage Service Mega Rebirth

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Piracy return
Cloud storage Services Mega Kim Dotkam (Kim Dotcom) is back, his latest invention is a cloud storage service called "Mega".  The famous file-sharing service, Megaupload, is expected to be reborn after being forced offline. Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz (Kim Schmitz), was born in 1974 with dual citizenship in Germany and Poland and currently lives in New Zealand. In honor of the Internet, he was renamed "Kim.com". He set up a document-sharing service Megaload in 2005, rapidly becoming a gathering place for all kinds of pirated film and television content, and caused great dissatisfaction in the entertainment industry.  Eventually, Megaload was closed last January, and Kham was arrested and later released on bail.  What is Mega? Mega is a cloud storage service. Registered users can get 50GB of cloud storage space for free.  If you are willing to pay a monthly fee of 9.99 dollars, you get 500GB of cloud storage space and 1TB of bandwidth, and 19.99 dollars, you get 2TB of storage space and 4 TB of bandwidth.  The biggest feature of Mega is that when users share files, in addition to sharing links, they also need to provide the key to the content recipient in other ways to protect the privacy and security of the files. This means that mega users can upload, store, and share pictures, text, music, and movies, but these files will be encrypted and the only decryption key will be kept by the user.  Due to the inability of the site operator to access the file, it is exempt from legal liability. In this way, Mega will be responsible for the piracy review to the user who uploaded the content. In the Megaupload era, the American film industry believed that the site should be directly responsible for the illegal content uploaded by users.  Now, this dilemma has been cleverly bypassed. But it also means that the way in which mega is transmitted is fundamentally changed.  In the Megaupload era, users need only one URL to download and open any file, and in the mega era, users must also obtain the key provided by the uploading "through other channels" after downloading files, which greatly increases the threshold for file sharing. Mega online response to warm Kham revealed, mega online two hours to attract 250,000 people registered, and the user's willingness to pay also make them flattered.  And on the day of the line, mega registered user volume exceeded 1 million. "I hope you don't see it as a provocation to Hollywood-we started developing this new business last September," he said. We are not arrogant, but learned from the Megaupload, hope that this time to develop the best products. But Kham admits he is still aggrieved by the January 20, 2012 raid by New Zealand police. He said: "I did not expect this to happen, it is not fair." Overnight, Megaupload 220 people lost their jobs. "" In the history of the mostLaw's start-up company, "when it comes to whether Mega will be in the same legal dispute," Kham said the business is completely different from Megaupload, including core code. The site is fully developed using HTML5-some of the code has not even been approved by official standards.  This is why mega currently supports only chrome. From a server security perspective, it's also good to develop new Web sites. Dotcom that "mega does not use any of the existing technologies." The server is not cracked at all, because this is our own technology. In addition, all people involved in the construction of the site have information security background. "Not only is there a difference in underlying technology, but the site also wants to obey the law from the outset."  As one of Mega's leading lawyers, Ira Rosken (Ira Rothken) said that Mega's "every pixel" was in line with the law and was "the most law-abiding start-up company in history". Still, Kham is worried that the government will not let him off lightly-he knows mega is under close scrutiny. "Will they spare me?" Or are you going to find another crop?  He was "deeply concerned". He cited a few examples: "When my guests come to New Zealand and they are honest on the manifest that they are coming to me, they will be detained at the airport for hours." They will be stripped, the baggage will be forced to open, and a friend must even open the notebook and turn on his digital content. "It is clear that the days of confrontation with the police and the judicial authorities are difficult." Dotcom at the beginning of the mega "carefully examined every detail to ensure compliance with the law".  This kind of caution may be able to change the government regulation of the relaxation, but due to the fundamental changes in the way documents are shared, mega I am afraid it is difficult to megaupload the occasion. (Yan Fei)
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