The fly megaupload

Beefed up privacy, for starters. As Dotcom explains to the Wall Street Journal , the 'on-the-fly encryption' is probably the site's biggest new feature. When you drag-and-drop a file to upload, the site automatically encrypts the information in the background in your browser. No application necessary. Other than that, it's pretty much the same in terms of functionality as far as we can tell.

Mega is currently suffering from some technical difficulties, which is never good for a site on its first day. The site is currently working at a snail's pace. But, at least according to Kim on Twitter, it's only because over , people signed up on the site's first day. Their problem is there are too many people using the product. Whether or not the site will be shut down is the biggest question surrounding Mega. But Dotcom is confident his new product is here to stay, though the movie streaming site he teased could cause him some legal trouble.

He told the WSJ that Mega is "the most legally scrutinized Internet site in the history of the Internet," which is like a bold claim. We have it all together. This whole indictment is crap. We will show the malicious and bad faith construction of this case so if they want to go there I'm game.

Dotcom: I would say the biggest new development is on-the-fly encryption. Without having to install any kind of application—it happens in your browser in the background—it encrypts giving you privacy.

This means when you transfer data anyone sitting on that line will get nothing as it is all scrambled and impossible to decrypt without your key. This is going to take encryption to the mainstream. We have some servers in New Zealand, we have some servers in Europe and we have invited hosting partners to sign up to join us.

Basically anyone can connect a server in their hosting facility, hook it up to Internet, give us access and we can make it a Megaserver. Every file that is being uploaded to Mega is not just on one server, meaning if one hosting company goes bankrupt then those files will be on least two servers in the world and in two different jurisdictions. Dotcom: I think there will be these early adopters who will try the new Mega, and it's just so good that it's going to spread.

It will hopefully take off within a year, and it's going to be a significant player in the Internet. Roll the Bones Tour. Counterparts Tour. Test for Echo Tour. Vapor Trails Tour. R30 Tour. Nothing to see here yet folks.

Thursday, September 17, Miscellaneous. The Mega API will provide incredible powers. Our API and your Mega tools will change the world. We are building a massive global network. Get ready. Kim appealed developers of file-managers, email, fax, voice-over-IP and video applications to contact him and get early access to the new API's.