Mega Suffers Hostile Takeover by Chinese Fraudster, Hollywood and New Zealand Gov’t
Mega, a free cloud storage and file hosting service founded by German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has been taken over by a Chinese Fraudster, Hollywood and the New Zealand government, and Dotcom doesn’t think your data is “safe” anymore. Since his resignation as the company’s director in 2013, Dotcom hasn’t taken a management role nor has taken part in the company board. Nevertheless, he has been an outspoken critic of state authority, privacy and the global monetary system. "The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for....
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