Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by oelmekki » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:01 PM UTC

jcr wrote: post #23

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…

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?

What's so hilarous about it ? That's just concatenated / compressed sources.

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

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Post by a1vd » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:02 PM UTC

I am interested in which technology he would use to encrypt/decrypt the data in the browser. Most web-tools I've seen have a strict limit on number of bytes that can be encrypted in a userfriendly process.

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

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Post by bebna » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:03 PM UTC

oelmekki wrote: post #31

jcr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

What's so hilarous about it ? That's just concatenated / compressed sources.

kim.COM

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

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Post by jcr » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:16 PM UTC

oelmekki wrote: post #31

jcr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

What's so hilarous about it ? That's just concatenated / compressed sources.

He's ranting about how it is somehow "not safe" to use .COM and .NET domains, but none the less, he's using one (KIM.COM).

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

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Post by anonymous » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:16 PM UTC

So why not a .onion? You can set it up so that name resolution goes through Tor, but you still connect directly to the IP, if you're after speed. He could even manage to get mega.onion.

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

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Post by pyrotechnick » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

anonymous wrote: post #35

So why not a .onion? You can set it up so that name resolution goes through Tor, but you still connect directly to the IP, if you're after speed. He could even manage to get mega.onion.

The first rule...

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

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Post by nnq » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

...jeez, thought that by now the guy thought of a different business model

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

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Post by AhtiK » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

"The new Mega encrypts and decrypts your data transparently in your browser, on the fly. You hold the keys to what you store in the cloud, not us."

For me this is the most important bit of the website. That bit demonstrates the dedication of building something that will be very hard to shut down.

If you combine this with the VPN tunneling at the backend to obfuscate parties for the final host and content (similar to what piratebay did a month ago according to the news)- it has the potential to become very powerful and take a good share of torrents traffic.

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

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Post by HyprMusic » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:31 PM UTC

jcr wrote: post #23

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…

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?

I wonder how long his surname will be kept as dotcom? kim dotcodotnz?

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

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Post by anonymous » Mon, Nov 12, 2012, 1:40 PM UTC

pyrotechnick wrote: post #36

anonymous wrote: post #35

So why not a .onion? You can set it up so that name resolution goes through Tor, but you still connect directly to the IP, if you're after speed. He could even manage to get mega.onion.

The first rule...

It will be the best thing to happen to the TOR network - thousands of new (mostly non-exit, but still) nodes carrying all sorts of legal and illegal traffic.