U.S. Government Tries to Stop Megaupload Successor

[Asrokhel]

US Department of Justice argues that Dotcom will breach the terms of his bail if he launched Mega.

The U.S. government has warned Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom not to launch the recently unveiled successor to the file sharing site, Mega, as it may apparently breach his New Zealand bail conditions.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion last week that argues that Dotcom had deliberately misled the foreign court.

A January bail application affidavit sees Dotcom stating that he had no plans of rebooting Megaupload or ?some new iteration of the site?. However, prosecutor Neil MacBride has stressed that Mega is a violation of the claim made by Dotcom.

"Defence counsel's claim that the corporate defendant can and should be allowed to operate undermines the sworn statements of Dotcom that he has no plans or ability to continue to operate or fund the businesses in the indictment during pendency of the extradition process," MacBride said.

Dotcom?s lawyer, Ira Rothken, responded to the allegations by stating the suggestions are baseless. "It's a serious allegation, but we believe it is an ignorant allegation and they're basing it upon absolute speculation,? he said. "It sounds like the United States is attacking a technology before they fully investigate it. This looks to be the second time they're doing that. Kim Dotcom is innocent, and he's entitled to be involved in technology and business."

Mega, a file sharing site that works in a similar fashion to its predecessor, is said to be raid-proof through the implementation of an "Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm".

Dotcom said that the site, which is due for a 2012 launch, is not "a giant middle finger to Hollywood and the DoJ" as it'll have rules in place allowing copyright holders to send the DMCA a takedown notice in order to remove copyright-infringing content from the service.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Megaupload-Mega-Kim-Dotcom,news-16232.html

[Growled Member]

The US government should spend their time chasing the real bad guys and leave Dotcom alone. May I suggest they start first with the MPAA and the RIAA.

[syobon999]

we need anonymous file sharing, the japanese have done some interesting programs like 'perfect dark' that uses a system resembling freenet to share content...

[FloatingFatMan]

This pretty much proves that the US has a personal vendetta against Dotcom...

[Glassed Silver]

Nice to see the US so worried about his bail! /s

Growled pretty much nailed it! :)

Glassed Silver:ios

[Japlabot]

For the way that they have treated him, yes he deserves to be able to stick it to them once again. I love how the plan is to make them file a copyright claim (blacklist) rather than needing approval for every submission (whitelist), and yes- innocent until proven guilty, it's going to basically work the sam, except this time actually handle their claims while still putting the onus on them do some work and to prove their copyright before take down. Don't want to make it too easy for the ********.