Kim Dotcom's Mega Is Removing Files at a Frenzied Pace
Kim Dotcom's latest website, Mega, promised to be a replacement of Megaupload, the file-sharing and mostly-pirated video host site the government took down a year ago. But Mega is a cloud-storage service: Users have access to their files, but no one else, not even the site's administrators, know what's in them because they're encrypted before they reach Mega's servers.
Kim Dotcom’s latest website, Mega, promised to be a replacement of Megaupload, the file-sharing and mostly-pirated video host site the government took down a year ago. But Mega is a cloud-storage service: Users have access to their files, but no one else, not even the site’s administrators, know what’s in them because they’re encrypted before they reach Mega’s servers.
The site has vowed to protect copyrighted materials and comply with government requests for user data or file removal.
But
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