{"id":3192,"date":"2012-11-07T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2012-11-07T07:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T07:14:24","slug":"me-ga-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"Me.ga suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3193\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/me_ga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3193\" title=\"me_ga\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/me_ga-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/me_ga-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/me_ga.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Controlling the net, Blaise Louemba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kim Dotcom, the founder of MegaUpload, has accused Washington of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d after the government of Gabon announced the suspension of his new site, which was due to be launched in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00adLast week, Dotcom unveiled plans to re-launch his file-sharing site in January 2013, using the Gabonese domain me.ga, with the message &#8220;<em>this button will change the world.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the authorities of the African state thought otherwise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;<em>I have instructed my departments\u2026 to immediately suspend the site www.me.ga<\/em>,&#8221; announced Communication Minister Blaise Louembe, saying, &#8220;<em>Gabon cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister Louembe said the domain name was originally registered to someone in France who then transferred it to Dotcom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, Gabon\u2019s communications ministry alleges that the website was set up to redirect traffic to another site hosted in France, which would provide access to shared files.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dotcom immediately replied to the move by blaming Washington. \u201c<em>Don&#8217;t worry. We have an alternative domain. This just demonstrates the bad faith witch hunt the US government is on<\/em>,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 38-year-old German national is free on bail in New Zealand ahead of an extradition hearing to the US in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The FBI and US Justice Department allege MegaUpload made \u00a0$175 million in profits\u00a0by offering pirated copies of movies, TV shows and other content, resulting in over \u00a0$500 million damages to the industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington wants him on money laundering, racketeering, fraud and online copyright theft charges, and seeks a 20-year jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dotcom insists he is innocent and free to start a new file-sharing venture which will incorporate state-of-the-art encryption methods resulting in user-only knowledge of the uploaded material. &#8211; RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Dotcom, the founder of MegaUpload, has accused Washington of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d after the government of Gabon announced the suspension of his new site, which was due to be launched in January. \u00adLast week, Dotcom unveiled plans to re-launch his file-sharing site in January 2013, using the Gabonese domain me.ga, with the message &#8220;this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Me.ga suspended&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[2081,2079,2082,1725,2080,2078,1638],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-blaise-louembe","tag-gabon","tag-internet-control","tag-kim-dotcom","tag-me-ga","tag-meguupload","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/me_ga.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}