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Guess Who Patented Two-Factor Authentication And Is Now Offering The Patent For Sale? Kim Schmitz / Dotcom (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/05/23 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionThe concrete fields of application comprise, for example: computer centers, airports, ministries, government offices, customs, border transition points, security regions, banks, police and military applications, shielded storage, vaults, bank vaults, garages, parking houses, automobiles… Much more: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/6078908 Dutch language news article: http://www.nu.nl/tech/3481317/kim-dotcom-claimt-uitvinding-twee-staps-verificatie.html Previously: http://vrritti.com/?s=megaupload
MegaUpload’s Kim Dotcom orders deletion of 3D gun design. No court order or notice needed
Posted: 2013/05/12 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Public Policy, Stats / reportsTaken down because Dotcom thinks the designs are ‘scary’, not because of a government request, takedown notice or court order… Internet mogul Kim Dotcom says designs for a 3D-printed gun are “scary” and he has deleted public links to its blueprints from his new file-sharing website. The US government is investigating whether the gun design, […]
MegaUpload’s Kim Dotcom: “The key to making money on the Internet is global instant availability of content at a fair price”
Posted: 2013/05/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution“You can’t release content exclusively in the US and 3-6 months later in other markets. That encourages piracy. The Internet is about NOW.” “There are so many ways for content creators to monetize their product online. Isn’t it insane that a company like Google, that creates no content, is the most valuable Internet company in […]
MegaUpload’s Kim Dotcom Wants To Meet Up With United States Attorney General Eric Holder
Posted: 2013/05/05 in Copyright, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reportsHolder will be in New Zealand to join the Quintet meeting with his four counterpart Attorneys General from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But Kim Dotcom — the notorious Auckland-based, German-born internet entrepreneur and founder of the massive global file-sharing websites Megaupload and Mega — is working hard to ensure that Holder’s […]
I have arranged to have lunch with the man variously described as “hacker king” and “gangster clown” (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/04/21 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, New Business Models, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionGrowing up in Kiel, northern Germany, Dotcom – christened Kim Schmitz – discovered gaming at the age of 11 and hacking not long after that. (He changed his name to Dotcom in 2005.) His Finnish-born mother had left his father, a violent alcoholic, when he was six. “My mum had to work three jobs. She […]
Megaupload says US trying to change rules to allow prosecution
Posted: 2013/04/20 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Legislation, Litigation, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload has accused the United States government of trying to change criminal court procedures to make it easier to prosecute the firm for copyright infringement. In addition to naming CEO Kim Dotcom as a defendant in the criminal case, the US government also named Megaupload, a corporation based in Hong Kong, as […]
Dutch Hosting Provider Leaseweb Publishes Law Enforcement Transparency Report (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsWe are now unveiling the first LeaseWeb Transparency Report, for the year 2012. The goal of this report is to shed light on the following types of law enforcement requests and/or court orders we have received: Government requests for customer information Government requests for forensic images Government requests to remove content Child abuse material notices […]
Megaupload Ltd. (a cloud storage provider) and Equinix Inc. are facing potential seizure orders for data on 32 cloud computing servers located in Canada
Posted: 2013/03/17 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution, The CloudMegaupload is alleged to have committed offences under USA law by facilitating wrongful dissemination of copyright protected movies and music. The Attorney General of Canada (at the request of the US Government) recently applied to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for an order requiring Equinix Inc. and Megaupload Ltd. to deliver data on 32 […]
Shutdown of Megaupload caused a 16 percent decline in broader locker usage and substantial ripple effects for rivals like Hulkshare, FileSonic, FileServe, Upload.to and Mediafire
Posted: 2013/03/03 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Stats / reports“The site’s closure had a ripple effect throughout the sector with services such Hulkshare and Mediafire quickly changing their operations to implement filtering, or dropping rewards programmes designed to encourage users to upload large amounts of material” More: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130227locker
The U.S. is one step closer to bringing Kim Dotcom to its shores (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/03/01 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe New Zealand Court of Appeal today ruled that the U.S. government will not be required to turn over all of their evidence against Kim Dotcom in order to obtain his extradition to the States. A summary of its case, the judges ruled, will do just fine. The Wall Street Journal was first to report […]
Dead Megaupload Still Has Millions of Visitors
Posted: 2013/02/24 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe baffling statistics show once again how enormous the site was More: http://torrentfreak.com/dead-megaupload-still-has-millions-of-visitors-130223/
Keep Megaupload out of our server seizure case, US lawyers say
Posted: 2013/02/16 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Stats / reportsWhen the US government shut down file-sharing site Megaupload, it also grabbed the service’s US-based servers, located at Carpathia Hosting and other companies. That inspired legal demands from Kyle Goodwin, an Ohio man who makes his living videotaping high school sports events, and wants his files back. But the government shot back with a brief […]
The Deterrent And Educational Effects Of Enforcement: Kim Dotcom Talking About ‘Playing By The Rules’ (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/02/03 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionContent and rights owners may have wanted Dotcom to do the exact same thing… Kim Dotcom has admitted that Mega is behind the shut down of the French-based indexing site Search-Mega.me. Mega’s team decided to take action because the site didn’t have a takedown policy, which offended some copyright holders. Dotcom stresses that Mega search […]
I had the chance to interview Mathias Ortmann, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of MEGA, through Xavier Buck a Luxembourgish entrepreneur (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/27 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionCopyrights are not affected by encryption. Whether or not the data is encrypted, policing all user files for copyrighted content is neither required nor permitted, and we enforce a takedown policy that complies with all applicable laws and works just fine despite the encryption. More: http://eromang.zataz.com/2013/01/27/interview-of-mathias-ortmann-mega-cto/
Interview: Kim Dotcom’s Cypherpunk Ideology & Comments About MPAA’s Chris Dodd (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/26 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionYou can go to any ISP right now, anyone who connects customers to the Internet. And if they are honest to you and you ask them the question ‘How much of your traffic is peer-to-peer piracy?’ anyone who will tell you less than 50 percent is lying to your face. Much more: http://rt.com/usa/news/kim-dotcom-interview-mega-673/ See also: […]
Dotcom’s Mega: Anti-Piracy Group Moves To Cut Off Site’s Finances (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/22 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, New Business Models, Online advertising, Stats / reportsAn anti-piracy group with the stated aim of shutting down file-hosting services by strangling their finances has wasted no time in going after Kim Dotcom’s new baby. Robert King of StopFileLockers says that his outfit has started a campaign to have the payment processor accounts of Mega resellers terminated. King, who is affiliated with the […]
Mega’s CEO Tony Lentino is the one the one who introduced Dotcom to EuroDNS founder Xavier Buck (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/21 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, New Business Models, Online advertising, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionLuxembourg-based EuroDNS has since become a technology partner to Mega, though Dotcom would not comment on whether EuroDNS was also the mystery Luxembourg investor in Mega. Xavier Buck said he felt immediate empathy with Dotcom having tangled with law enforcement authorities himself in cyber-squatting cases brought by L’Oreal and Air France. Also circling is the […]
Is Kim Dotcom Essentially Pointing Out That There WAS Something Wrong With MegaUpload?
Posted: 2013/01/20 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionNew Mega is smarter, faster, more secure and perhaps also better protected against intellectual property lawyers? New service is bulletproof, says Dotcom—the most lawyered-up startup ever. The Mega business plan has been vetted by more than 20 lawyers across the US and New Zealand, Dotcom says—including those at Rothken’s firm, and New Zealand law firms Simpson […]
Dotcom: “This is not about mocking any government or Hollywood. It’s about our right to innovate” (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/20 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionAt the expense of other industries, distributors, filmmakers, creators, composers, writers, developers and artists? More: http://torrentfreak.com/dotcoms-mega-launches-to-unprecedented-demand-130120/ See also: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/mega-launch-a-fake-fbi-raid-dancing-girls-oh-and-human-rights/
Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/19 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionOur first impression confirms that the encryption indeed works brilliantly, but those who are looking for complete anonymity might be a bit disappointed More: http://torrentfreak.com/mega-is-brilliantly-secure-but-not-anonymous-130118/
Two days before the Mega.co.nz service is to go live, Dotcom says he plans to offer 50GB of free storage to all members (MegaUpload)
Posted: 2013/01/18 in Education / Awareness, Litigation, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionSuspect 2.0 builds file sharing platform 2.0 during trial 2.0 This is a huge amount of free storage. It’s easily more than the 2GB offered by Dropbox, the 5GB by Google Drive, or the 7GB from Microsoft’s SkyDrive. Dotcom tweeted that Mega was working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in court to give Megaupload users access […]
