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Kim Dotcom to Launch Secure Video Chat Service
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has announced plans to release an encrypted, in-browser video chat service through his Twitter account. The service, called MegaChat, will also integrate high-speed transfer of large files, through Dotcom’s Mega sharing software. Mega will soon release a fully encrypted and browser based video call & chat service…
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Kim Dotcom Saves XMAS, Stops Lizard Squad Attack on Xbox Live and PSN
Hacker group Lizard Squad launched a DDoS attack on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network (PSN), taking both services down on Christmas Day. The official Lizard Squad Twitter account demanded 10,000 retweets before it would allow the services to continue. However, German web entrepreneur Kim Dotcom stepped in, offering Lizard Squad…
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Kim Dotcom Cleared Following Bail Hearing, Questioned on Video Games
Kim Dotcom, of Megaupload fame, has walked away from his bail hearing after being cleared. He has been on bail since February 2012, and has faced allegations of breaching his conditions of bail. The Auckland District Court ruled that despite his new business interests, most notably his ‘Mega’ file sharing service, and…
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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Declares Himself Broke
The founder of seized file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz), has announced that he is “broke”. He claims to have expended £6.4 million in legal costs, defending himself against charges of internet privacy in New Zealand. His defence team, from law firm Simpson Grierson, has now stepped down…
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Police Ordered to Hand over Clones of Dotcom’s Data
In what can be described as a small victory for the New Zealand entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in his ongoing legal battle over Megaupload, the New Zealand Court of Appeal ruled that clones of the seized electronic devices should be returned to Dotcom and his co-defendants “as soon as reasonably practicable”. The…
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Record Labels Embarrass Themselves, Take down Kim Dotcom’s Own Album
In a twist of irony, the music industry group IFPI has sent not one, but two separate take down notices to MEGA about Kim Dotcom’s own album, Good Times. In one of the instances they were successful and the link to the Album stopped working last Monday. Of course the…
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More Than Ten Million Legal Files Destroyed In Megaupload Raid
Kim Dotcom and the Magaupload saga are well known to us, it was a huge case that saw the site and sites like it being closed down due to their use by many users to share files illegally. Yet for all the good that the U.S. Government did with shutting…
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Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega Director Position To Focus On Other Things
Kim Dotcom has decided to step down from his position as the director of Mega to focus on other things. According to TorrentFreak Kim Dotcom is going to leave his Mega cloud storage company to be run by its current staff and he will instead focus on his new cloud…
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New Zealand’s GCSB Avoid Police Charges Over Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom
The New Zealand Herald reports that New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has been let off facing police charges for illegally spying on Kim Dotcom, founder and owner of Mega and MegaUpload. Despite Green Party co-leader Russel Norman filing a complaint against the GCSB no further action will be taken…
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Kim Dotcom Ordered To Remove “Mega” Logo Off His Lawn
In a classic case of “#firstworldproblems” Kim Dotcom, founder of the deceased Megaupload and the new Mega, has been requested to remove the Mega logo from the lawn of his personal property. On Twitter he told followers that: “A neighbor complained about the huge #MEGA sign on my lawn. City…
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Is Working On Encrypted Email Service
With both Lavabit and Silent Circle shutting down their encrypted email services it is currently quite hard to find yourself an encrypted email client these days that has a safe and reliable future ahead of it. Anything based in the USA is vulnerable to NSA court orders and thus is…
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Kim Dotcom Will Lobby Against Surveillance Bill In New Zealand
Government surveillance is the hot topic on everyone’s minds these days and it seems Snowden’s actions in revealing the PRISM program in the USA have set off a chain of investigations in other countries into government surveillance. The latest government to take fire is the New Zealand government and Kim…
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Kim Dotcom Says Megaupload Host “LeaseWeb” Wiped All Data Without Permission
According to Kim Dotcom on Twitter his former host for Megaupload, LeaseWeb, erased all the Megaupload servers and all the data without contacting him, requesting permission or even a warning. Kim Dotcom wrote that: “While EFF is fighting for the rights of Megaupload users in U.S. court, Leaseweb has taken…
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Kim Dotcom Does Interview With Australian News Station
Megaupload Limited was a fairly large website, which provided a single service, cloud storage. Kim Dotcom founded the website in 2005, active for almost seven years before the United States FBI seized the website. But not only that, they froze all his assets, confiscating computers and equipment. It has been…
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NZ Courts Order FBI To Destroy Illegally Obtained Data In Megaupload Case
According to reports coming from New Zealand, the New Zealand courts have ruled that all data which the FBI acquired illegally from Kim Dotcom in the Megaupload case must be destroyed or returned. In addition the court has granted Kim Dotcom and his legal team full access to the evidence brought…
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