Me.ga Shutdown Even Before Debut

btarunr · Nov 8, 2012

Following the mega MegaUpload drama, its head Kim Dotcom decided to start its successor, named Mega (with the URL http://www.me.ga), registered with the internet TLD .ga for the West African nation Gabon. Following Dotcom's announcement and domain name registration, the URL gained large traffic, but ahead of its debut, the URL has been suspended by people behind the TLD, the Gabon Ministry of Telecommunications. Its minister Blaise Louembe said in a statement, that his country "cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people." Dotcom's attorney told the press that launch of Mega is on-track, but could feature a different URL.

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Ghost · Nov 8, 2012

syeef · Nov 8, 2012

lol. But what about rapidshare? they bribed the feds or something?

NC37 · Nov 8, 2012

An African nation actually adhering to copyright laws? Right...next you'll be telling me China is the center of innovation. Wonder who dropped a stack of bills in Gabon to shut it down.

Do wonder why persist with the "Mega" name. Do something different. Write it backwards if you have to. Agem! There you go! No government in existence is gonna be smart enough to figure that out

btarunr · Nov 8, 2012

NC37 said:
An African nation actually adhering to copyright laws? Right...next you'll be telling me China is the center of innovation. Wonder who dropped a stack of bills in Gabon to shut it down.

It must have just taken a phone call from US consulate in Gabon.

RejZoR · Nov 8, 2012

Africa, the mecca for abiding laws. Wait, what?

Why doesn't he register "www.dot.com" ?I mean, he is dot.com isn't he?

btarunr · Nov 8, 2012

RejZoR said:
Africa, the mecca for abiding laws. Wait, what?

Why doesn't he register "www.dot.com" ?I mean, he is dot.com isn't he?

Because US government has control over *.com TLD. Any .com domain can be suspended by the US government.

1d10t · Nov 8, 2012

I believe Kim now move to Andorra and would change to MEGAUPLO.AD

3870x2 · Nov 8, 2012

Do they know what an Internet is?

Shihab · Nov 8, 2012

3870x2 said:
Do they know what an Internet is?

You'd be surprised.

TheMailMan78 · Nov 8, 2012

btarunr said:
Because US government has control over *.com TLD. Any .com domain can be suspended by the US government.

Not for long. The US is turning over control to the UN by years end........yeah so Iran and company will now have control over what you see. Have fun!

Easy Rhino · Nov 8, 2012

what about www.failu.re ... the people of Reunion will take him i bet. of course they would have to go through france first.

SaltyFish · Nov 8, 2012

I think the biggest problem is that there aren't many countries who can't be intimidated by the US but are not just as unscrupulous themselves (Russia and China being the obvious examples here). Maybe that country that SlySoft went to would be okay...

TheMailMan78 said:
Not for long. The US is turning over control to the UN by years end........yeah so Iran and company will now have control over what you see. Have fun!

Works both ways... Canada, Japan, Spain (anyone else remember the football debacle?), and everyone else would be free from US control. Besides, any country restricting internet doesn't need to do it by TLD control.

TheMailMan78 · Nov 8, 2012

SaltyFish said:
I think the biggest problem is that there aren't many countries who can't be intimidated by the US but are not just as unscrupulous themselves (Russia and China being the obvious examples here). Maybe that country that SlySoft went to would be okay...

Works both ways... Canada, Japan, Spain (anyone else remember the football debacle?), and everyone else would be free from US control. Besides, any country restricting internet doesn't need to do it by TLD control.

Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

SaltyFish · Nov 8, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

Doesn't really mean much. The .COM domain getting numerous masters instead of one doesn't change the fact it stopped being a nice TLD a while ago. Sites have been moving from the horrors of .COM to country specific TLDs to protect themselves.

syeef · Nov 8, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

I am Muslim living in a Muslim nation

TheMailMan78 · Nov 8, 2012

syeef said:
I am Muslim living in a Muslim nation

Bangladesh is not Uzbekistan or Iran my friend. Different animal all together. :toast:

Prima.Vera · Nov 8, 2012

syeef said:
I am Muslim living in a Muslim nation

I am an atheist living in a Christian, Muslim, Hebrew, Buddhist nation. :toast:

RejZoR · Nov 8, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
Not for long. The US is turning over control to the UN by years end........yeah so Iran and company will now have control over what you see. Have fun!

Damn, it seems i was living in delusion that .com means .communism hm hm...

TheMailMan78 · Nov 8, 2012

RejZoR said:
Damn, it seems i was living in delusion that .com means .communism hm hm...

There is nothing stopping any nation from creating a free and open alternative.

Hilux SSRG · Nov 8, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
Yeah but its China and Russia and two hard core Muslim nations that are demanding it. The US turned it down once. But its back in the works now. If you think the US is bad at censorship.....you aint seen nothing yet.

I don't see the US giving it up to the UN. We all know how the UN runs things. :wtf:

WhiteLotus · Nov 8, 2012

All the US sites will just change to .us. If that doesn't exist already it will soon.

syeef · Nov 9, 2012

TheMailMan78 said:
Different animal all together.

Sorry I don't see it.... I am not a racist my friend

. And I support the modern Persian Empire.

Back to the topic, I want to know about Rapidshare. They bribed the feds or something? I mean they are involved in the same business as Megaupload, they too host illegal files only less.

WaroDaBeast · Nov 9, 2012

Easy Rhino said:
what about www.failu.re ... the people of Reunion will take him i bet. of course they would have to go through france first.

Actually, that'd be great! We'd get a lot more publicity, which would be good since we don't have as many tourists as we'd like to. (Come on, you know you wanna chew on that sugar cane and drink coconut water at the same time!)

Peter1986C · Nov 9, 2012

WhiteLotus said:
All the US sites will just change to .us. If that doesn't exist already it will soon.

I once or twice visited a Dutch site with a .us domain, but soon I had enough of it's content. Generally the (NSFW) content was poorly written.

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