tldr; He has his own implementation of lightning network called "bitcache" and plans to use it as a payment method on his file sharing system. This seems more like a marketing piece for megaupload 2 than it does an interesting article on technology use.
Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology
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Re: Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology
#22sia coin will encrypt your data before upload and it's totally blockchain—based. http://sia.tech/
Not open source like Storj. I hate nodejs but I'm not running a proprietary binary on something so important for my privacy and security.
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology
#23sia coin will encrypt your data before upload and it's totally blockchain—based. http://sia.tech/
Not open source like Storj. I hate nodejs but I'm not running a proprietary binary on something so important for my privacy and security.
Sia is 100% open source: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology
#24He made $300,000,000.00 off MegaUpload off the backs of actual content creators. He knowingly and willingly broke the law. He's scum and he deserves to rot in jail.
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic. You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic. The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that. They know that many of their users are…
You had me right up until you claimed Dotcom was in the same situation. They (kim and his mega employees) knew they were hosting infringing content and intentionally did everything they could to avoid removing it. For instance, one common tactic was deleting referring URLs to content without deleting the actual files so that it would be easy for users to just create a new link to the file without having to re-upload it.
THAT isn't just innocent "we don't want to know", that's intentionally infringing. I have absolutely no love for the MAFIAA and their ilk, but let's not pretend Dotcom was some sort of martyr.
A fairly insightful article on the whole affair: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/us-unveils-the-ca...
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology
#25There is an interesting pattern developing lately. From the numerous examples: Lavabit relaunch now requires name/personal details on signing up for the email. Now the Megaupload 2.0 will add an exact record to their service. How are all these services that praised anonymity now requiring less of it?
Also Signal (at least on android) requires access to a bunch of permissions as well as your phone number. Not sure why everyone is so hyped on Signal.
Re: Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload 2.0 Will Utilize Blockchain Technology
#26He made $300,000,000.00 off MegaUpload off the backs of actual content creators. He knowingly and willingly broke the law. He's scum and he deserves to rot in jail.
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic. You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic. The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that. They know that many of their users are…
Read this: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/1/9436735/megaupload-prosecu...
And this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/us-unveils-the-ca...
And if you're feeling feisty: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-edva/legacy...
What Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload purposefully and willfully schemed to accomplish is in no way comparable to to ISPs. And saying as such is anything but childish.
Users were paid for having files that were frequently downloaded. Some of those users were hit with repeated DMCA takedowns. What do you think happens to a repeat offender on DMCA? Do they get their account shutdown? Nope! They get rewarded with a bigger stash to upload more files.
MegaUpload had many identical files uploaded by many different users. These files were stored as a single file on the server. With each uploader having a unique link to that file. DMCA takedown requests would come in for many of those links. Which MegaUpload would do. However they would leave the file online and in tact with hundreds of other links to the same known to be infringing file. Which makes it effectively impossible to have anything removed.
Read the e-mails. They're beyond damning.