I'm curious about the 'made in new zealand' line in the footer. Was there an NZ dev team involved? I'd love to know who.
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#202Heh, interesting that the site so proudly says "Made in New Zealand" despite the fact that New Zealand raided his home.
Unfortunately, he seems to be well liked here in Auckland. They even made him Santa: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/whats-on/8073823/Kim-Dotcom-...
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
As long as the logins go via normal web page hashing the passwords before sending them does not really add that much security. If the security of the server is somehow compromised, it would be trivial to put up new Javascripts that send the cleartext password to server. Users are not likely to go through the Javascript to check what it is actually doing.
This is how similar services have responded to warrants. They voluntarily alter javascript for some ip addresses in order to capture passwords to use for decryption of the user's files. It would probably be easy to write your own login page or a browser toolbar that would either do the hashing on a page you control or check that the javascript was what it should be. At that level of distrust however you might as well…
> similar services
for those who don't know, hushmail is probably the best known example of this.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Uses" people by creating products other people are willing to pay for. Just like your local pig farm "uses" the animals to provide you food you are willing to pay for. Mega is just being a midleman here. What's so wrong about it, really? If an industry goes down because it can't compete with "free", then maybe it should go down because technology makes the business model unprofitable? Big players go down and small o…
No, it's not "just like" at all. And that's for the not-difficult-to-discern reason that people and pigs are not interchangeable, which why you can have bacon for breakfast without being charged as an accessory to murder. And I'm sorry that think that getting the artists out of art and just handing the satisfaction of the human intellect to machines is a situation where "everyone wins." A liberal education may not ge…
> No, it's not "just like" at all. And that's for the not-difficult-to-discern reason that people and pigs are not interchangeable
You're arguing against something I never even claimed. However, what you said still doesn't change the fact that pigs are being used. Problem?
> And I'm sorry that think that getting the artists out of art and just handing the satisfaction of the human intellect to machines is a situation where "everyone wins." I mean, that's just embarrassing.
What's the problem with this? People who are creative can stil create things as much as they like, while people who prefer consuming things can get the said things for cheaper and for less effort. Of course this sounds like a dystopian future for an artsy person who would love to get paid for their hobby. But just as radio amateurs with their love for analog electronics have gone underground, so will happen for those who can't adapt to the ever-accelerating technological progress we're going through. And the fact that we can now share information so effortlessly is a great sign of that.
Of course it would be ideal that I could create X, set it a price Y and then people would pay for it if they consider my product worth it's price. However, because of the way the world changes, it isn't possible in a strict sense. It will never be possible during this digital era, at least not without sacrificing liberties and creating some godlike authority over information sharing. Now how would that not be a dystopian future!?
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It's pretty embarrassing that tech blogs are even covering this. Copyright law is about intent, not about technical specifics. The idea that new megaupload is ok because it encrypts illegitimate content before storing it is absurd.
What do you mean by "ok"? Morally ok? That is subject to opinion. I don't have a problem with them now, and I never did. Legally immune? They very well could be. Certainly any action against them is going to be much harder this time, if only because a bunch of people in New Zealand are still pissed about what happened last time without the revisions that were made. If their system works as they claim, and renders the…
However you feel about copyright, profitting off of the distribution of other peoples work, without their permission, is not something that should be encouraged or tolerated.
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#206How exactly does this work, if they don't have access to the original? > 8. Our service may automatically delete a piece of data you upload or give someone else access to where it determines that that data is an exact duplicate of original data already on our service. In that case, you will access that original data.
They take a hash of every X MB of your data before upload. If the hash already exists, then they don't upload it. You just get added to the access list for that particular chunk along with the others who have uploaded it.
That can't be the whole story. If Megaupload gives you access to the ciphertext encrypted with a key that neither you nor Megaupload has access to, that is useless.
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#207I see Kim Dotcom as a stereotypical gangster who makes money by delivering illegal products. He has the narcissistic personality and lifestyle trappings to go with it. He even wants to buy protection from New Zealand itself by bringing free fibre optic cable to the island! It's just hard for me to respect the man, because he's not fighting for information freedom, he's fighting for as much cash, status, and power as…
Don't have to respect him (I would have a lot of questions for someone who did) to mostly take his side in the whole mega upload situation.
I don't take his side in making money off of intellectual property that doesn't belong to him.
Torrent sharing is one thing. Selling access to downloadable material that doesn't belong to you quite another.
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#208I'm getting "This webpage is not available"
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by "ok"? Morally ok? That is subject to opinion. I don't have a problem with them now, and I never did. Legally immune? They very well could be. Certainly any action against them is going to be much harder this time, if only because a bunch of people in New Zealand are still pissed about what happened last time without the revisions that were made. If their system works as they claim, and renders the…
However you feel about copyright, profitting off of the distribution of other peoples work, without their permission, is not something that should be encouraged or tolerated.
Roughly speaking I agree with you, but where do you draw the line? If I download a movie illegally right now then chances are Google and Firefox are immediately benefiting from it, and then even further away are Microsoft (OS), hardware manufacturers, etc. who profited off enabling me to do this.
Is the line about intent rather than technicality? For example how driving a bus that a drug dealer is on is not illegal, but driving the getaway car from a robbery is? If it is, then how does one prove that Dotcom wants to support copyright violation, rather than his official stance of just believing that there is a level past which he can not be expected to police his customers?
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#210SSL Poor error, cannot connect to server. Is it down, or is my ISP blocking the SSL certificates so I cannot use it? I am using Google Chrome. I assume the site was DDOS'ed or failed under heavy bandwidth.
Me too.