The infamous Kim Dotcom is free and his new website has hard-to-decipher ties to Denver,
Ars Technica reports.
Excerpt:
When Kim Dotcom's
“Mega” site launched January 20, 2013—one year to the day after the FBI shut down his Megaupload file locker on accusations of copyright infringement and wire fraud—the ostentatious file-sharing guru promised 50GB of free, encrypted storage to users. In a pre-launch interview, Dotcom told Ars, "This startup is probably the most scrutinized by lawyers in the history of tech startups." Hopefully that scrutiny will hold up, because Mega-search is revealing a few things copyright holders may not be too happy with.
This new site,
Mega-search.me, offers users a way to post links to files with the decryption key in the URL. Clicking on the link takes you to Mega, where users can download the file to their computers or Mega accounts. The third-party service can't automatically index links from Mega but instead relies entirely on users to crowdsource their goods.
According to a quick WHOIS search, the domain was made at 11pm UTC on January 20, the same day Mega launched. The admin and registrant are listed as being located in Denver, CO, but the site's Facebook page is written exclusively in French. The .me top level domain is the Internet country code for Montenegro. The website owners did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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