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

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

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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.

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

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Post by kator »

switz wrote: post #5

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 conte…

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..
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