Gabon minister suspends Me.ga domain, with upcoming cloud storage site branded as cyber crime.
Despite the U.S. government warning Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom not to launch the file-sharing's site successor in the form of 'Mega', he recently announced its release date, with the holding page for the website apparently receiving millions of hits soon after.
In order to avoid the possibility of the U.S. seizing the domain
as it did with Megaupload.com, Dotcom purchased the Gabon-based domain
.ga. However, Blaise Louembe, Gabon's communications minister, won't
allow the domain to go live.
Louembe has said www.me.ga will be
suspended and stressed the miniature West African nation "cannot serve
as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating
copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people."
Ira Rothken, the
attorney overseeing Megaupload's defense (Dotcom faces extradition to
the United States), confirmed that the new site will not be available at
Me.ga, but the service is still scheduled for a release.
"The
[new] site is not even functional yet," Rothken told CNET. "MegaUpload
and Kim are innocent and presumed innocent. It sounds like a lack of net
neutrality in Gabon...We're just going to use a different domain."
Mega
is promised to be raid-proof through an "Advanced Encryption Standard
algorithm". Dotcom stressed the website is not "a giant middle finger to
Hollywood and the DoJ" -- its rules will allow copyright holders to
send the DMCA a takedown notice to delete copyright-infringing content.
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