But Kim Dotcom had a plan B. While under house arrest and facing extradition, he and his engineers built a phoenix from the ashes. Just 11 months later, on January 19, 2013—exactly one year after the raid—they launched .
This architecture turned the legal world upside down. The DMCA requires hosts to remove infringing content. But if the host cannot see the content... how can they remove it? Mega’s legal argument: "We’re a dumb pipe for encrypted data, not a publisher." https //mega.nz/
When you upload a file to Mega, your browser encrypts the data locally before it ever touches the internet. Mega generates a unique decryption key (the "cryptographic key") that never leaves your device. Mega’s servers store only the scrambled, unreadable gibberish. But Kim Dotcom had a plan B
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