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kwikbreaks

EdwardB wrote: »

Mega.nz 50gb free storage

I saw recently that NZ have agreed to extradite Kim Dotcom to the USA. I'd be a little wary of relying entirely on Mega.nz

EdwardB

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I saw recently that NZ have agreed to extradite Kim Dotcom to the USA. I'd be a little wary of relying entirely on Mega.nz

They have been after him for years, mainly because he will not provide keys so security services can poke around people's private files or connection details (unlike Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter et al).

MegaUpload got out of control but mega.nz is a bit more mainstream (Iphone backups etc) , it has separate financial structure and can run without him. It issues warnings about illegal activity when any link is created. In fact it does more than Google and Microsoft do.

As you bring it up, I hope you do not mind if I correct you on events

Ed wrote: »

CNBC wrote: »

However his legal team has said that now the judges have said that Dotcom could not be extradited on the grounds of copyright infringement, the rest of the charges, which include money laundering and fraud, should be dismissed as well.

"Our view is that the charges are like a house of cards. Once you get rid of criminal copyright infringement, everything falls. There is no money laundering if you have a non-copyright infringing cloud storage site," Ira Rothken, Dotcom's lead global counsel, told CNBC by phone on Thursday.

Under New Zealand law, if someone else uses your website or network to infringe copyright, then you are not deemed to have infringed copyright. This "safe harbor" in New Zealand is being used by Rothken to defend Dotcom.

Timeline of events:

Kim started file-sharing site Megaupload.com in 2005
He was granted New Zealand residency in 2010 and has been living in Auckland since then
U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload.com in 2012 and Dotcom was charged with copyright infringement and other allegations including money laundering
On Jan 20, 2012, $50 million of Dotcom's assets in Hong Kong, where he founded Megaupload.com. were frozen
That same year, Dotcom's house was raided by New Zealand authorities. The U.S. began extradition proceedings
The extradition hearing began in 2015 and has been going through numerous courts
In February 2017, the New Zealand High Court said that Dotcom can still be extradited, but not on copyright infringement charges

Rothken accused the New Zealand authorities of acting "illegally" in their raid of Dotcom's home in 2012.

"The search warrants were provided to the New Zealand court for alleged crimes of copyright infringement, now we know that that is a non-existent crime, it's an erroneous claim. So the search warrants were granted on a basis on which they never should have been granted," Rothken told CNBC.

The New Zealand Ministry of Justice was not available for comment when contacted by CNBC.

Now that the High Court has ruled that there was no copyright infringement, the lawyer said that the extradition request is likely to be thrown out when he takes it to the New Zealand Court of Appeal.

"We think it will be very quick when Court of Appeal looks at this to basically say that this case can no longer be sustained and should be dismissed. We believe the remaining claims have no merit," Rothken said, adding that he will be filing an appeal notice within 15 days.

Dotcom's legal team will are now also looking to unfreeze Dotcom's assets in Hong Kong and also seek "remedy" for the raid of the internet entrepreneur's house.

While his legal team did not say how much they were seeking in damages, Dotcom tweeted early on Thursday that he would sue the New Zealand government for $2.4 billion.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/23/kim-dotcom-megaupload-extradition-court-case-seeks-damages-prosecutors-acted-in-illegal-way.html

Hoseman

Thanks for suggestions.

I already using Mega but Im not willing to over to it for 'business use' as the Kim Dotcom association made me a little wary. Perhaps I need to look at them again. Will also check out axcrypt.

digp

sync.com
or boxcrypt

S0litaire

take a look at SpiderOak
they will backup & encrypt folders but give you the option to share folders securely with others.

They do a free 21 day trial and it's $5 a month for the basic service.

https://spideroak.com/personal/spideroak-one

digp

I found this. Not tried it but will look into it further when I can. It's open source and therefore free. Unlike say boxcrypt which is a commercial I've with a free price plan: https://cryptomator.org/