Back to square one.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...gaupload-mega/
What Mega and Megaupload do have in common is that they are both one-click, subscriber-based cloud platforms that allow customers to upload, store, access, and share large files. Dotcom, and his Mega partner Mathias Ortmann say the difference is that now those files will first be one-click-encrypted right in a client?s browser, using the so-called Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm. The user is then provided with a second unique key for that file?s decryption.
It will be up to users, and third-party app developers, to control access to any given uploaded file, be it a song, movie, videogame, book, or simple text document. Internet libertarians will surely embrace this new capability.
And because the decryption key is not stored with Mega, the company would have no means to view the uploaded file on its server. It would, Ortmann explains, be impossible for Mega to know, or be responsible for, its users? uploaded content ? a state of affairs engineered to create an ironclad ?safe harbor? from liability for Mega, and added piece of mind for the user.
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One of the more unique wrinkles of the new service may come from Mega?s decision not to deploy so-called de-duplication on its servers, meaning that if a user decides to upload the same copyright-infringing file 100 times, it would result in 100 different files and 100 distinct decryption keys. Removing them would require 100 takedown notices of the type typically sent by rights holders like movie studios and record companies.