Kim Dotcom is on a mission to save the internet. He plans to start by launching a free cloud-storage service -- for the third time. Here, he talks exclusively to WIRED about why no one should trust his second file-hosting service Mega, his optimism for the future of an encrypted web, how a non-profit status will make Mega 3.0 a success, and why Hollywood is the ISIS of the internet?
Last week German-born entrepreneur Kim Dotcom returned to the news in dramatic fashion, warning the world to steer well clear of the file-hosting service he once set up, Mega.
Dotcom publicly claims Mega has been subject to a hostile takeover by Chinese investor Bill Liu, whose shares have subsequently been seized by the New Zealand government. As a result, he does not believe Mega customer data is secure anymore -- despite security being the number one reason Dotcom decided to set up the site following the seizure of Megashare by the FBI in 2012, due to alleged copyright infringement.
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Kim Dotcom: Mega 3.0 will succeed as a nonprofit (Wired UK)