Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is living under house arrest, his assets have been frozen, and is facing the prospect of extradition to the United States and up to 20 years in prison if found guilty of copyright theft, money laundering and racketeering fraud. But, still working on a new file-sharing site, called Me.ga.
His new website is set to officially launch on January 20 (exactly a year to the day since his arrest) will use encryption so only uploaders -- and not the sites administrators -- will know what they are sharing. Mega will also avoid dealings with US hosters, domains and backbone providers, but will allow copyright owners to remove infringing material -- on one condition. "They [the content owners] will even get direct delete access if they agree not to make us responsible for actions of users", he told Reuters.
Source: Reuters, via Betanews
Update: Kim Dotcom has lost Me.ga domain! The government of Africa's Gabon said he would not be able to use the Me.ga domain to launch his new online file storage web service.
Update 2: DotCom announced on Twitter that his new cloud-storage service will use a New Zealand-based domain: Mega.co.nz.
