Kim Dotcom Outs Mega Teaser Site, Finalizes Domain Name 195
hypnosec writes "Kim Dotcom has let out more information about the launch of Megaupload's successor Mega, which he claims will be 'bigger, better, faster, stronger, [and] safer.' Mega is currently looking for partners willing to provide servers, support and connectivity to become 'Mega Storage Nodes.' The prime requirement, according to Dotcom, is that the servers should be located outside the U.S. and that the companies should also be based outside of the U.S. For this reason, Dotcom has decided that the new service will be launching with 'Me.ga' domain name."
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Somebody has been playing a lot of minecraft
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Why don't you purchase one of these properties [missilebases.com]?
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Re:Have to say...No safe room needed. (Score:2)
I personally think this is the answer for all cloud storage. You encrypt data before it leaves and the server, God only knows where, stores your stuff. You can access it or your friends you give access to can get the data. Big deal. If Kim doesn't do it, who else does?
Thus if Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and a lot of other big companies can offer cloud storage, what is different about Me.ga except that Kim doesn't have lobbyists in Washington, DC?
The holding of encrypted data on a server is just anonymous d
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Sure takes big balls to ask other people to take the risk for you, while you make the money.
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Maybe he figures that if his legal situation is ok, hey might as well make more money. And if his legal situation is screwed, hey he's screwed already anyway.
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What did he do wrong? He's had previous small-time crimes in Germany, but nothing since.
He ran a website you could upload things to. What's so "bad" about that?
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Depends on your definition of wrong.
He made money of phreaking and warez and then switched sides and helped the police and lawyers to bait warez traders.
Later there was investor fraud and insider trading. For that alone he'd have prison time, but German courts can be very illogical.
He is a crook and a notorious liar.
Looking forward to downloading warez & pr0n (Score:5, Insightful)
Kim,
Thanks for fighting the good fight.
Yes!
How long until: (Score:4, Insightful)
"The domain name associated with the website Me.ga has been seized pursuant to an order issued by the U.S. District Court"
(or equivalent).
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Well, the rationale for seizing his other one was that since it was a .com, and America owns .com (apparently), it was within their rights.
A domain not registered with a US authority, for a company entirely based outside of the US ... unless they can intimidate a local government into playing along, they may find themselves with no 'real' jurisdiction. A US District Court might get told
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Yeah, the US would never interfere in foreign countries where they have no jurisdiction to get their hands on a suspected copyright-infringer, would they?
Gabon looks like just the kind of place that a little backhander and/or exchange of oil purchases could make anything happen.
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The .ga TLD is operated by Gabon Telecom SA, which is owned by Maroc Telecom, which is owned by Vivendi SA.
It should be obvious whos internet will win. (Score:5, Insightful)
And its not going to be "America's" internet.
We are going back to our old ways of isolating ourselves from the world because of the greed of a very few.
While Kim may be greedy and potentially an asshole, he's going to win and is playing by rules far more legitimate then our current IP circus.
To those of you in the MPAA, RIAA, and software, mobile phone, and ISP industries. You cannot fight this. Learn and adapt or you will fail while people like Kim refuse to lay down and prosper.
Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win. (Score:5, Interesting)
Except he had his personal assets seized, his companys assets destroyed, and is facing huge legal fees along with possible extradition and decades of prison time. You say he will win the legal battle, but everything done to him so far has been illegal and yet it was still done. The forces working against him don't really care about following legal procedure, they care about ruining his life. And anybody who wants to follow his business models certainly has to carefully consider how much of their own life they are putting at risk by going against the current IP circus. Or take a look at the guys from Pirate Bay, locked in cages in solitary confinement. Are they winning the fight?
I'm all for a more open internet, but your viewpoint is full of idealistic assumptions that are by no means assured.
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Unfortunately they can fight it, and have continued to fight even after the death of megaupload. Almost every filesharing service which was predominant two years ago has folded or has severely tightened its policies. Almost none of them now accept paypal; you have to pay with a credit card or wire transfer using some dodgy offshore middleman.
And once "me.ga" is deemed an outlaw business by the USA, then subscribing to the service, or advertising on the service, or linking to the service will be considered
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Who has not.
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I dunno, Laying down and prospering sounds like a pretty good deal.
Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win. (Score:4, Insightful)
Wanting to get paid for your work is not greedy. Charging many multiples of a product's 'fair market value' by leveraging legislative or other control channels you possess (aka. rent extraction), or preventing people from legally-mandated fair access to content they have bought and paid for, is both greedy and wicked.
The public does not make nice distinctions between "oh, the restrictions on this IP here are pretty reasonable while those on that IP over there are just crazy". To the vast majority of people, IP and copyright are fungible concepts that do not vary from one product or author to another. Most readers had a very good idea of what was fair (checking out a book from a library, lending it to a friend, selling it to a used bookstore) and what wasn't (printing copies of books and selling them for personal profit, stealing ideas or entire texts without attribution). Those institutions that dominated the IP regime in the United States for decades (the MPAA and the RIAA, among others) decided that they were going to play hardball and lock things down so hard that people should consider themselves fortunate to be allowed to read their own books or listen to their own music. They lost. And then they doubled-down and lost again, and again and again. Now that they've finally screwed themselves (and the basic idea of Intellectual Property among a whole generation) to the point where they can see their own deaths approaching, NOW they're suddenly crying, "Omg! Won't someone think of the poor IP creators?". (The IP creators who the corporations screw over every chance they get.)
Too bad. They blew it. Do I feel bad for those talented folks who are going to find it difficult or impossible to make a living on their work? Do I mourn the creations that might have been but now never will be? Absolutely. But the bloated corporate monstrosities that killed the very of idea of decent copyright? They can burn, and when they run up to me begging, I may laugh, but I certainly won't put the fire out, not even if it gives me a chance to piss on them.
I'll just leave your false equivalence between digital and physical goods to lie there and rot, as it deserves.
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Charging many times a product's fair market value, when people are still buying it, seems to re-define fair market value. The cost of production is irrelevant to the cost. What people will pay is the market value.
Yes, it's greedy to maximize your profits by establishing a price point that gets you the most buyers at the most profit.
The rest of your post is, while verbose, I am not arguing against. The problem the MAFIAA is fighting against is one they created themselves, by not understanding when they ne
Re:It should be obvious whos internet will win. (Score:5, Interesting)
That's a very Machiavellian philosophy, tantamount to Realpolitik. Realpolitik is why the USA supported so many corrupt dictators and bloody warlords during the Cold War. We looked the other way when they committed human rights abuses and atrocities, because they were seen as a stabilizing influence and loyal anti-communists.
Yes, the US is embarking on another campaign to piss off the planet by causing trouble in other countries to push their agenda. We were willing to abandon all our principles when it came to fighting communism. Then again with the war on drugs. And again with the war on terrorism. And again with the war for IP. It's one of those cases where the slippery slope really did happen. If you told someone 100 years ago that the US would be spending trillions to push the corporate agenda of corporations that own nothing but ideas and sell nothing but 1s and 0s, they'd have laughed at you, and if you persisted in telling that correct future, then you'd likely have had part of your brain removed to shut up your insane rants. After all, the government isn't there to fight foreign wars for oil, or make marijuana illegal because the cotton industry found it a threat. Oh wait, it is, and it has. Too late. The only fix is a revolution, and the fat lazy American's are too happy with their bread and circuses.
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Should we do less of this? By all means. But don't imagine for a moment that any other nation would do better.
The good thing is that once the US figures out the right thing to do on IP, drugs, terrorism, etc., the rest of the world is forced to follow. And unlike other
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But don't imagine for a moment that any other nation would do better.
I moved out of the US because it's broken. I moved to a place that doesn't do this. There are nations out there that are better. Not everyone was founded on the purityranical foundations of the US where there's an immense fear that someone, somewhere is doing something we don't approve of, and we must stop them, or we passively endorse the act in question. We've alreade done that with Cuba and sex, I'm surprised we haven't done that for drugs. It's illegal to fly to someplace with a consent age below 1
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Other places don't do this for the simple reason that they lack the power and economic success.
Neither was the US. The US was founded by people who believed in liberty and justice, strongly influenced by the Enlightenment.
And what country is not "broken" in your sense? Do let us know!
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Neither was the US. The US was founded by people who believed in liberty and justice, strongly influenced by the Enlightenment.
They may have written the Constitution, but they are not the genetic stock of Puritans who came to the US to force their religion on others, as they were prevented from doing so in the UK.
And what country is not "broken" in your sense? Do let us know!
Fuck you. I don't want any other Americans moving here. You are bunch of assholes that will elect either Obama or Romney in a few days. Either way, you've proven yourself incompetent idiots. And it's very hard to be incompetent at being an idiot.
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Oh, I have no love for the Puritans: they were a repressed and oppressive bunch. But they made up only a small percentage of the colonies and were more of a regional phenomenon. And they and others fled similarly oppressive Christian churches, like the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. The problem wasn't Pu
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Based on your links, though, it seems that you simply live in Alaska and are somehow related to Christian missionary work.
I am neither in Alaska, nor Christian. And yes, I don't need piles of slashdottians bashing my choice of a better place because they've never been out of their mom's basement, but it must be better than anywhere I could be outside the US. I've told others in the past here, and I just got insults and arguments. But thanks for your support anyway.
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In different words, your choice of "better place" doesn't hold up to objective analysis; it is simply a quirky personal preference. But instead of saying "I prefer this kind of place, but I understand most Americans prefer America to be different", you become rude and insulting.
And that's why you are linked to "Romancing Alaska" and use the name of an Alaskan missionary site?
I think you're j
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I think you're just being evasive and dishonest.
Evasive? Yes. Dishonest? Nope. I moved to a place where for the same income as the US, I pay less taxes. I also have free health care. That should narrow it down, I've been told that there's only one country on the planet where that's true.
My picture was on Romancing Alaska last I looked, but I am not the site owner. He gets money from ads served on the site, and his stats show that the greatest single referrer to his site is Slashdot (yes, even ahead of Google). Though, since it looks like he pulle
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We are past the point of having a revolution. Surveillance cameras, drones, and a few key people holding the keys to the big weapons make sure of that.
The last successful terrorist attack served its purpose. It changed the American way of life. For the worse. And almost all of those changes apply to the people who want change the most. Further attacks in any form will bring the iron fist tighter, in the guise of providing safety.
There is no single target, or small group of targets, that will replace th
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Oblig Futurama (Score:5, Funny)
US IP Laws (Score:3)
Re:US IP Laws (Score:4, Insightful)
Out of reach? Given the way the US is exporting its IP laws with some serious diplomatic pressure ... if SOCOM can rustle up someone to go in and do a raid where they're not supposed to be, I wouldn't put that past the influence of the *AAs.
American foreign policy is in large part driven by what those guys want. To the point that documents written by industry are part of governmental briefings -- even if the conclusions in the document is entirely in the service of the interests of the *AAs.
Welcome to the oligarchy. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that it's the industry calling the shots, not the government.
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MegaUpload was a Hong Kong company, and the US managed to get their assets seized by the HK government. So no, not at all.
Gabon .ga registry problems (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm really not sure that .ga (Gabon) was the best choice - see: http://www.internetnews.me/2012/01/13/is-the-gabon-registry-offline/
Oh look he wants investors (Score:2, Insightful)
Looks like yet another classic Kim Dotcom scam.
This guy isn't an internet hero, he is a piece of shit.
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Re:Oh look he wants investors (Score:4, Informative)
Whoever wins, we win.
Not even slightly.
It's a normal asshole verses one of the biggest douche-bags of all time.
It's clearly better for the MPAA to loose because they are much much worse.
Anyway, is he an asshole? I had a paid up megaupload account which I only used for legal stuff. It worked really well.
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You won't get a suspended sentence on just being on the edge of legal and illegal. He had two of them. Suspended sentences are seen as more serious in Germany because most people who aren't considered dangerous will get a suspended sentence if their sentence is under two years prison time.
Oblig Serenity (Score:2)
There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal.
You can't stop the signal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
Wheres the old stuff going? (Score:2)
Also, if this service works it will be much easier that uploading truecrypt volumes. Which I will probably keep doing anyway.
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Carpathia still has the warez on their servers. Which are still frozen by DoJ.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/10/05/report-seized-megaupload-data-be-subject-future-us-court-hearing [gamepolitics.com]
[US] is not safe for ... any business (Score:5, Interesting)
From the page on server limitations:
Unfortunately we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millenium 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 content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.
When people ask "why use me.ga?" they're going to hear the Kim DotCom story. Eventually it'll be taken for granted that Hollywood has corrupted the Justice Department. This could be the PR move that turns ordinary people against Hollywood.
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I get the feeling the RIAA, MPAA and the rest of the anti-piracy morons are holding us back, dragging us down.
At some point I stop caring about your "intellectual property" and "media licenses" and long for you to disappear.
Domain name/public internet access (Score:3)
Is the wrong way to go. It provides several points of failure that are hard to get around, and has proven to be vulnerable time and time again as we lose sites like Demonoid and Library.nu ( and countless others before them ).
Best bet is to go underground with something like Freenet or I2P. Sure, it may not be as 'transparent', but that is fixable by creating brain dead installers and multiple public access points. ( then you play whack-a-mole as those are shut down ). The days of the 'open net' is limited.
This way there is nothing specific to shut down.
Of course if there is a money trail, and there will be with Kim, that is still vulnerable.
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Kim DotCom cannot get rich with Freenet or other such technologies. Whatever he (or anybody else) comes up with as a business automatically has a single point of failure: the people running it.
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That's funny. He feels the same way about you, and he doesn't even know you exist.
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I'm sick of hearing about the US projecting its bad laws outside its jurisdiction.
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Well you're doing it to your self as the summary makes no referance to the ongoing legal case.
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Meh, the Internet will just route around the damage. The problem is that the "damage" is the USA.
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The problem is that the "damage" is the USA.
HARDLY
The USA is not alone in this bullshit by any stretch. There are just as many problems in the EU right now. ALL governments right now are corrupt and owned by very powerful groups with intense interests in protecting the revenue from their copyrights.
Nobody wants to change, and there are a bunch of rent seeking sociopaths that are trying to kill freedom as quickly as possible, because it is the most direct route to having the control required to protect their business models and assets.
To say it is th
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I have to disagree.
There are far too many articles about incidents in the EU regarding just about everything we are complaining about.
What about Canada? What about Australia?
The USA is not alone in this at all. The damage the Internet needs to route around is governments curtailing freedom, privacy, and anonymity, in the name of protecting these broken business models, while at the same time gaining the intelligence tools they claim will be used to protect us.
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No, no place is as bad as the US, and even then, only the English Speaking world is following the US lead. Some others may
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To say it is the USA only, gives a huge pass to those governments in the EU.
The thing is, though, it seems very much to be USA driven., and the Euros (from what I've read) have been fighting against it harder than pretty much anyone. TPB is Swedish, yes? SOPA, PIPA, TPP, DMCA, yada, yada, yada: USA! When it showed up in Poland, thousands (tens of thousands?) of people actually hit the streets (literally) in lousy weather and scared Polish politicians silly enough to kill it. France is "this close" to killing their "N Strikes" (HADOPI?) thingy. Portugal, Spain, ... don't appear
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No it isn't.
The poster made the claim that the damage the Internet needs to route around is the USA.
That's clearly not true in all cases, and ignores quite a bit of legal cases and laws being proposed in the EU, Australia, etc.
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Interesting)
This might also allow you and your trusted friends to upload anything you want, and megaupload/your ISP/the government cannot then bust you for copyright infringement or whatever, for the practical reason that they don't know what the data is. Of course this is possible now with current technology, but a cloud storage service with a good user interface with this feature 'built-in' and mandatory might be what it takes to get ordinary people to encrypt their content. Imagine Dropbox with mandatory encryption. True cypherpunks would argue that everything should have always been like this anyway.
Of course, Big Content doesn't roll over for such technicalities so I expect this to simply spawn more anti-cryptography laws.
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That's going to be quite problematic in practice with technology like TrueCrypt.
1) Outlawing crypto, or forcing the keys to be available is the clearest act of war against civilians by a government, and a perfectly just cause to rebel and overthrow the government. Anonymity, and the right to conduct private transactions and conversations was held to be sacrosanct the founding fathers in the US. They, more than anybody, understood the value, and how absolutely critical it was to prevent tyranny.
2) The opera
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You're right. Pedophile enabler is stupid. And yet, it works. Do not underestimate public ignorance and desire for a good old-fashioned moral outrage, or a legitimate target to hate. Pedophiles are the new communists, or witches. A little flimsy evidence is all you need to ruin someone's life. After all, if they won't reveal the key, they must be guilty.
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Imagine Dropbox with mandatory encryption. True cypherpunks would argue that everything should have always been like this anyway.
There are reasons why this isn't the default -- Dropbox relies on de-duplication to reduce their storage and bandwith costs.
Encrypting the data before upload would remove that possibility.
Not that it's not worth doing -- but it will be more expensive than a non-secure equivalent.
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I just pointed out to a friend of mine in I.T., last week, that it seems odd how U.S. govt. largely forgot about their interest in controlling encryption. I mean, it wasn't THAT long ago that they were still forcing Microsoft to make a separate version of Internet Explorer because it was a federal crime to export it with 128-bit encryption capabilities in it. And remember how worked up they got over the Pretty Good Privacy software when it was first released to the public?
But despite CPUs getting many tim
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Another possible explanation is that they gave up because they realised trying to control the export of encryption techology that was already well-known outside the US was pointless and only served to hurt US buisnesses.
Also if there is anything the past decade or so has taught us it's that even if the underlying encyrption algorithms are sound the cryptosystems built round them often aren't. SSL is a good example, it relies on certificate authorities to determine whether you are really communicating with t
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What I want to know is just what algorithm they plan to use for this encryption and whether they plan to be open and honest about what the crypto they are using or whether they are going to be another snake-oil salesman that promises "strong crypto" but then uses something so weak that a kid in his bedroom could crack it easily.
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AES
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Of course, Big Content doesn't roll over for such technicalities so I expect this to simply spawn more anti-cryptography laws.
They can pass all the anti-cryptography laws that they want. It doesn't mean I'll stop using it. George Washington [wikipedia.org] would approve, I think.
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Sure, the MAFIAA can trawl file sharing sites and get the password to the key. But they can't trace it back to who uploaded it, so they can't sue you. And Mega can't know that you've posted the key, so Mega can't know what's in the encrypted file. So they can't sue Mega either.
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That's amateur legal theory and pretty dangerous.
Of course they can sue Mega. You can sue anyone for anything at any time. Whether they succeed is the interesting question. And that's not quite as easy to say, because courts are pretty good when it comes to looking at the spirit of things, not the letter.
The court would take a good, hard look at Mega and probably conclude that its primary purpose is to trade copyrighted material illegally while taking considerable steps to hide it. That's a criminal conspir
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Imagine Dropbox with mandatory encryption.
Like https://www.cyphertite.com/ [cyphertite.com]
Thanks for mentioning it. Looks cool.
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The move somewhere else if you don't lik....oh right.
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Just wait until it is the UN dictating the rules.
They are already lining up "blasphemy" laws restricting free speech and eyeballing a global Internet Tax.
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It's funny how right wingers in the USA seem to think the United Nations is all-powerful.
Guys, the UN has no power whatsoever, it cannot dictate laws to member states, much less enforce them.
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There are tons of bad treaties that come out of the UN and that are nearly impossible for member nations to leave. For example, the US couldn't legalize drugs however much it may want to. These treaties often represent policy laundering and are imposed undemocratically by the executive branch. Furthermore, the UN has something much stronger than military, namely the power to punish states through trade pe
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There are tons of bad treaties that come out of the UN and that are nearly impossible for member nations to leave. For example, the US couldn't legalize drugs however much it may want to. These treaties often represent policy laundering and are imposed undemocratically by the executive branch. Furthermore, the UN has something much stronger than military, namely the power to punish states through trade penalties, and those penalties are imposed on any nation that steps out of line, including the US.
Huh? How is the UN suppose to enforce anything on any country without the cooperation of other countries. If the UN decided to launch an embargo against the US, it would find that no one would follow along and its notice would be a worthless as the paper it is written on. If the UN says, "Drugs are bad, mmkay?", and bans them, they have no way to enforce their rules. None. Nadda. Zilch. If California legalizes it, how is the UN going to force California to decriminalize drugs? Without a standing army, the r
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California can legalize drugs all it wants (and it should). The treaty is between the US federal government and other nations, and that treaty is hard to get out of. The UN is one mechanism by which the US gets stuck with such treaties.
Coun
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For example, the US couldn't legalize drugs however much it may want to.
Unlike, say, the Netherlands? Yeah, right...
Furthermore, the UN has something much stronger than military, namely the power to punish states through trade penalties, and those penalties are imposed on any nation that steps out of line, including the US.
No, it doesn't. It's member states do. The UN is merely the place where they agree to do it.
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The Netherlands have not legalized drugs, they have reduced enforcement.
Are you confused about how judiciary and police relate to each other? Oh, yes, I see you are.
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So that makes it okay?
And it's not just "right wingers", and it's not just the USA.
The UN is a fucking horrible waste of space and money. They are an incredibly corrupt organisation, and they get the dregs of our troughing failed/retired politicians.
I hate the fact that my taxes go to support this organisation that I have no control of, and can write laws that I have no influence over.
It's powerlessness is it's only good point. I'm glad that I don't live in Europe though - the EU seems a much more nasty (an
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I'm sick of publishers and rich folks from the world over lobbying US Congress and messing with US politics.
I'm also sick of Europeans passing bad laws, letting the US do their dirty work, and then blaming Americans for the mess.
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I'm sick of hearing about this dude.
I'm sick of a lot of things. Hearing about "this dude" is nowhere near the end of that list.
kdc's trials and tribulations are very entertaining, especially how he's managed to tie two separate countries' legal systems in knots. We can only dream to get those !@#$%^&* as worked up about us as he's managed to. Good on him.
"How !@#$ed up is the US' DoJ? How incompetent are they?" Well, sic kdc on 'em, and let's find out. Now "That's Entertainment!" From what I've heard, I wouldn't like the guy perso
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America will intervene anywhere there's enough oil, but nowhere else
It helps to produce opium; doesn't hurt to have a good spot for a pipeline, either...
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What's wrong with that?
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Well, a lot of users really do need the encryption for their private files. And those who don't... well the oppressive and complicated copyright laws and corporations suing each other left and right means that even 100% legit companies need plausible deniability to protect themselves. It's not just the wink wink of allowing infringers, the powers that be really do want to make life a misery for even legitimate sharers.
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