Kim Dotcom Launches Encrypted Cloud Storage

Kim Dotcom Launches Encrypted Cloud Storage

World wide web tycoon Kim Dotcom has launched a privacy cloud storage service with user-controlled encryption â€" guarding customers from third-party ‘spies’.

New internet site mega.co.nz, provides cloud storage with an ‘always-on privacy’. As opposed to the market norm, where the cloud storage provider holds the decryption key, Mega’s User Controlled Encryption (UCE) makes it possible for these that register to have total handle.

Dotcom said: “What we are providing is a quicker, smarter and a lot more secure way of cloud storage and we are completely assured by our legal group that we are in compliance with the law.

“By utilizing Mega you say no to governments that want to spy on you and by using mega you say yes to internet freedom and your correct to privacy.”

The German-Finnish web entrepreneur, who currently lives in New Zealand, hit headlines last year following his property was raided by New Zealand police.

Police close Megaupload

The police swoop was in response to US charges of criminal copyright infringement in relation to his Megaupload site, which supplied users on the internet services associated to file storage and viewing.

Final January all domain names and websites related with Megaupload had been seized and shut down by the US Division of Justice, and Dotcom, who denies the charges, remains on bail.

The warrants were later discovered to be invalid and even the prime minister issued an apology to Dotcom right after a law enforcement agency was discovered to have illegally spied on him.

Lavish launch of mega.co.nz

The elaborate launch of mega.co.nz took spot earlier this week at Dotcom’s New Zealand mansion and featured a re-enactment of final year’s raid â€" comprehensive with fake SWAT group and a helicopter.

Dotcom, who believes the US Government is investing millions into ‘spy clouds’, said the new service is just as legitimate and has the correct to exist as Dropbox, Boxnet and other competitors.

The new service gives users up to 50GB of free storage space and so far, in just 4 days, far more than half a million customers have registered.

User encrypted browsers?

Dotcom went onto say that the Mega cloud is just the beginning, and future plans consist of UCE in browsers, with out the want to install something. “Our technology will protect your emails, calls, chats and video streams,” he added.

A hearing on whether or not he can be extradited to the US has now been delayed until August.

Will you be signing up? Check out Dotcom’s lavish launch video beneath:

[Image via digitaltrends]

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