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So Kim Dotcom Wants To Sell Me A Patent

Kim Dotcom has a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. He’s fighting off international criminal charges, he’s a Call Of Duty champion, he’s a musician, and now it turns out, he’s also a patent vendor. Kim claims to own the patent that deals with Twitter’s new two-factor authentication service, and he wants to sell it to me.


Kim Dotcom Took 3D Printed Gun Plans Off Mega

In a statement to TechCrunch that was conspicuously devoid of live-tweeting, helicopter chases or any underwater components, Kim Dotcom announced that he has instructed the Mega staff to delete any public copies of the blueprints for this week’s fully 3D-printable gun.


The Carcass Of Megaupload Still Gets Millions Of Visitors A Month

It’s been over a year since Megaupload was ripped from the fabric of the internet, and its successor has already risen to fill the hole. But Megaupload was a truly gargantuan site. So much so that it’s still getting millions of visitors per month, even though there’s nothing there.


Kim Dotcom’s Mega Manifesto: ‘Privacy Is A Basic Human Right’

Kim Dotcom just broadcast a batshit spectacle live to the world from his mansion in New Zealand. Lofty ideas! Techno! A fake FBI raid! The gist: His new startup Mega isn’t just super-private file storage in the cloud. It’s a political statement about your privacy. Your data is yours and yours alone.


Mega Uses Random Data From Your Mouse And Keyboard To Beef Up Its Already Insane Encryption

Kim Dotcom’s newly launched Mega is determined not to get screwed over by the US feds the way MegaUpload did, and the trick is encryption, lots of encryption. Mega’s really going that extra mile too; it’s using your random mouse and keyboard data to strengthen your crypto keys.


Kim Dotcom’s Mega Is Now Open To The Public

Mega, Kim Dotcom’s big, flashy new copyright-dismantling file-sharing/storage site with encryption up the wazoo has finally launched. You can head on over and sign up right now. That is, so long as the site can hold under the crazy traffic. So far, it looks like it’s getting crushed under traffic. Different people are experiencing different things.


Hands On: First Look At Kim Dotcom’s Mega [Updated]

Ahead of the official launch tomorrow, Kim Dotcom’s Mega is live early for some members of the press. The landing page at mega.co.nz now redirects to kim.com/mega (in Safari) and shows an error to people using Chrome. Here’s everything we know so far about the new Megaupload. UPDATED WITH HANDS-ON IMPRESSIONS.


Surprise! Kim Dotcom’s New Mega-Site Looks Like A P2P Client

Oh Kim Dotcom, will your exploits never cease? He’s in court battling extradition to the United States, and simultaneously developing a new product that’s probably going to piss off the copyright holders who are coming after him for Megaupload. Genius!


Me.ga Is Dead, Long Live Mega.co.nz

Kim Dotcom’s dream of hosting the follow-up to Megaupload at Me.ga fell through last week when Gabon’s government objected. No worries: it will now appear at the rather less snappy Mega.co.nz.


Megaupload’s New Website Me.ga Has Already Been Shut Down

Kim Dotcom has been hyping up Megaupload’s new website Mega for so long that it seemed like a given that the file sharing site would come back bigger and badder. But it doesn’t look likely because Me.ga has already been shut down by Gabon, a small country in Africa that controls the .ga domain.


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