Am I the only here who's seeing "Domain Parked with Instra"?
More or less. http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=mega.co.nz
That's crazy. I had to open it up in TOR to see the actual site. Could it be my ISP?
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
#22Under How to become a hosting partner: "Make us an offer. We prefer unmetered fixed monthly payments." Right. And I want a flying Llama that poops gold bars.
Unmetered non-US servers with monthly payments are not that rare commodity nowadays.. well, especially when compared to gold bar crapping camelids :)
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#23Check 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…
The more hilarious bit is only seen by viewing the source...
http://static.kim.com/mega/release/css/index.css?v=8
http://static.kim.com/mega/release/js/main.js?v=8
I wonder how long the "kim.com" domain will last?
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#24Check 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…
The DMCA Safe Harbor works fine for companies that aren't PURPOSEFULLY attempting to violate copyright. Just don't make the mistake of getting caught berating employees for taking down infringing material, don't get caught figuring out what users upload the best pirated material so you can reward them, don't get caught ordering employees to work on improving the quality of pirated files on your site, and you won't have the problems Mr. Dotcom (who did all the aforementioned things) had with staying under the Safe Harbor.
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#25Under How to become a hosting partner: "Make us an offer. We prefer unmetered fixed monthly payments." Right. And I want a flying Llama that poops gold bars.
Are you implying that finding unmetered fixed monthly payments is hard? Because it's not.
Unmetered != unlimited.
There's still going to be a maximum capacity for the connection, and for unmetered connections that's the basis used to price it.
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
More or less. http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=mega.co.nz
That's crazy. I had to open it up in TOR to see the actual site. Could it be my ISP?
Depends on your DNS; which, yes, most likely depends on your ISP.
You could try OpenDNS or "8.8.8.8" or something.
If you choose to change, please be aware of the implications.
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#27As someone who lives in New Zealand, I think that its only a matter of time before the domain name is seized. This whole MegaUpload affair has shown that the US government has quite a lot of sway over the NZ government and in my opinion I don't think they will stop until he's extradited to the US and put behind bars.
Yeah, because that old trick still works. Assange is still chill-banging. Sipping Aguardiente. Schmoozing Ecuadorian diplomats. Yelling shit about the commander-in-chief out from the balcony to the glassy-eyed press [1]. As for Mr. DotCom, don't hold your breath. NZ is still busy kissing his arse [2]. [1] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-labels... [2] http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-s…
Last I heard Assange was still stuck in Ecuador's London embassy, which is what your linked article seems to imply too. Not exactly as rosy a situation as you're implying.
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, because that old trick still works. Assange is still chill-banging. Sipping Aguardiente. Schmoozing Ecuadorian diplomats. Yelling shit about the commander-in-chief out from the balcony to the glassy-eyed press [1]. As for Mr. DotCom, don't hold your breath. NZ is still busy kissing his arse [2]. [1] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-labels... [2] http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-s…
Last I heard Assange was still stuck in Ecuador's London embassy, which is what your linked article seems to imply too. Not exactly as rosy a situation as you're implying.
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Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz
#29As someone who lives in New Zealand, I think that its only a matter of time before the domain name is seized. This whole MegaUpload affair has shown that the US government has quite a lot of sway over the NZ government and in my opinion I don't think they will stop until he's extradited to the US and put behind bars.
Yeah, because that old trick still works. Assange is still chill-banging. Sipping Aguardiente. Schmoozing Ecuadorian diplomats. Yelling shit about the commander-in-chief out from the balcony to the glassy-eyed press [1]. As for Mr. DotCom, don't hold your breath. NZ is still busy kissing his arse [2]. [1] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-labels... [2] http://rt.com/news/zealand-apologize-dotcom-s…
The NZ courts have been quite good in the MegaUpload case. However the NZ government has shown that its happy to essentially overrule decisions of the courts if it doesn't like the decision.
Although Kim has become a bit of a celebrity in NZ now, he's even looking at funding a program to bring free fibre optic to NZ. ( http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7904696/Dot... ) So the government may not do something too hasty as it would cause a large amount of public backlash.
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#30Mega Conz? Really?
Maybe his backup plan is a blog about his life.