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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.
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?
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Not only that, torrents are totally sufficient when done properly.
Imagine "torrents ... done properly". Imagine some kind of worldwide system, without a central server and dedicated administrator, distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another. In your dreams!
Because if people did, anti-piracy companies would start paying attention to it. Therfore making it way more expensive to run Usenet servers and expose users to legal risk.
It's success depends on its relative obscurity.
You have to provide a credit card to use Usenet (unless you use bitcoins). Making it easy to be targeted.
Torrents "done properly" can be completely anonymous for everyone involved and still free.
So I don't agree that the problem was completely solved by Usenet. Despite being a happy Usenet + NZBmatrix user (oops broke the rule :p).
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"Encryption in the browser" just screams "boondoggle" to me.
Finally someone with some brains! That pesky browser thing never could do anything of value. Umm...Dah... What a joke! It's all "boondoggle"! It unquestionably couldn't ever be used to build "apps" [1]. Certainly could never ever be fast enough [2]. Obviously cannot ever possibly utilise multiple cores [3]. Most definitely never ever could do 3D [4]. So, you're right, I doubt it will ever do crypto [5]. Those fools m…
Hopefully the Government hasn't tried to put a backdoor in it, but I assume that would be discovered pretty quickly.
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Not only that, torrents are totally sufficient when done properly.
Imagine "torrents ... done properly". Imagine some kind of worldwide system, without a central server and dedicated administrator, distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another. In your dreams!
Due to the potential for shutdown even outside of the U.S., will people feel safe hosting important files on the site?
Did anybody actually ever host "important files" on MegaUpload? I know people say they did, but did they actually? If they did that's just plain stupid.
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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 ha…
> and you won't have the problems Mr. Dotcom (who did all the aforementioned things) had This is simply false. Legitimate non-infringing websites have been seized by the U.S. justice department without due process.[1] There is a reason to have due process and innocent until proven guilty; the reason is that otherwise power is abused by those with the power. [1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120505daj…
What this has to do with the meat of the comment you're responding to, I'm less sure of; that comment was useful in that it corrects an extremely common misconception about the DMCA (that if you simply have a process to honor takedown requests, you're a service provider immune to prosecution).
Regardless of your opinion about copyright or the DMCA, it remains an under-appreciated fact that if you do the things Kim Schmitz was discovered to have done (it's spelled out explicitly in the Mega emails), you're violating the DMCA whether or not you honor takedowns; further, you're not simply committing individual infractions by doing so, but instead (potentially) forfeiting all your protections as a service provider under the DMCA.
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.