Mega File Sharing

JAMAL said:
You are a good boy!!
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He kinda has a point. The only reason I can think this new venture is so anal about encrypting every damn file you put up is so that nobody can see what files you're sharing illegally unless you let them.

Either that or he's misspelled 'piracy' as 'privacy' as the new company strapline. ;)

Antar Bolaeisk said:
I could use Dropbox the same way, only difference is the amount of free space available.
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True, but Dropbox isn't the reincarnation of a site that was shut down for flagrant copyright infringement.
 
Why wasn't megaupload used as much in the last year or so before it was taken down?

It was great for free users yet everybody started using all those other sites which had longer waits and slower speeds. :confused:
 
stoofa said:
So we're all cheering and placing upon a pedestal a man launching a service designed to flout copyright laws and aid in the distribution of illegal software, music, film etc?
Please don't bother with the "no, it's a legal sharing service".
There is nothing illegal about BT - it's just 90% of the traffic on it is illegal.

I had nothing to do with his original service and will have nothing to do with this.
I shall continue to use my vast amount of Dropbox space for legal moving of my data around and then use legitimate sites to buy the software, games, music and film I desire.
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:rolleyes:
 
stoofa said:
So we're all cheering and placing upon a pedestal a man launching a service designed to flout copyright laws and aid in the distribution of illegal software, music, film etc?
Please don't bother with the "no, it's a legal sharing service".
There is nothing illegal about BT - it's just 90% of the traffic on it is illegal.

I had nothing to do with his original service and will have nothing to do with this.
I shall continue to use my vast amount of Dropbox space for legal moving of my data around and then use legitimate sites to buy the software, games, music and film I desire.
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stoofa said:
So we're all cheering and placing upon a pedestal a man launching a service designed to flout copyright laws and aid in the distribution of illegal software, music, film etc?
Please don't bother with the "no, it's a legal sharing service".
There is nothing illegal about BT - it's just 90% of the traffic on it is illegal.

I had nothing to do with his original service and will have nothing to do with this.
I shall continue to use my vast amount of Dropbox space for legal moving of my data around and then use legitimate sites to buy the software, games, music and film I desire.
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stoofa said:
So we're all cheering and placing upon a pedestal a man launching a service designed to flout copyright laws and aid in the distribution of illegal software, music, film etc?
Please don't bother with the "no, it's a legal sharing service".
There is nothing illegal about BT - it's just 90% of the traffic on it is illegal.

I had nothing to do with his original service and will have nothing to do with this.
I shall continue to use my vast amount of Dropbox space for legal moving of my data around and then use legitimate sites to buy the software, games, music and film I desire.
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My pretentiousness gauge just went off the scale.
 
stoofa said:
So we're all cheering and placing upon a pedestal a man launching a service designed to flout copyright laws and aid in the distribution of illegal software, music, film etc?
Please don't bother with the "no, it's a legal sharing service".
There is nothing illegal about BT - it's just 90% of the traffic on it is illegal.

I had nothing to do with his original service and will have nothing to do with this.
I shall continue to use my vast amount of Dropbox space for legal moving of my data around and then use legitimate sites to buy the software, games, music and film I desire.
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Dotcom's stated reason for starting Megaupload was to get around e-mail attachment size limitations. It was never intended to "flout copyright piracy laws". It didn't even have a search function, which is something you would have if your intention was to create a Pirate Bay-esque service.

As someone who thinks nothing of downing the odd album or movie, I can say that Megaupload were one of the best and removing files that breached copyright laws (much to my frustration). I've lost count of the number of times I was looking for a file on there only to get "This file has been removed for copyright reasons".

They were made an example of, it was certainly no worse than Rapidhsare or Depositfiles which are still going strong. Besides, they would have been better off targeting sites like Filestube that allow you to search all of the file sharing services in one go than one of the hundreds of file sharing sites
 
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If it were a taxi driver picking up someone who just stole a CD from a store, nothing suspicious for the driver to care about, is he to be charged and his car crushed for aiding this criminal?

No.

Your hapless disregard for the freedom of this great realm of communication is archaic at best.
 
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its just the same as dropbox, google drive and skydrive but with 10 times the space and all your files are encrypted.
What you use it for is completely up to the user.

personally I don't think people take security and privacy of your personal data seriously enough. The more services that enforces encryption the better
 
estebanrey said:
As someone who thinks nothing of downing the odd album or movie, I can say that Megaupload were one of the best and removing files that breached copyright laws (much to my frustration). I've lost count of the number of times I was looking for a file on there only to get "This file has been removed for copyright reasons".
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AFAIK the issue was that they'd remove the link to the file but not the file itself... for example if more than one person uploaded the same file, they just create a new link to it, the copyright owner complains they remove the link complained about but the file is still there and has other links pointing to it.

something like this could allow people to have '50GB' of space... if there are a lot of duplicate files (as there will be with pirated movies, music) they don't need to store them multiple times...

(this is just AFAIK - I'm not that familiar with the workings of megaupload or this new service)
 
dowie said:
something like this could allow people to have '50GB' of space... if there are a lot of duplicate files (as there will be with pirated movies, music) they don't need to store them multiple times...

(this is just AFAIK - I'm not that familiar with the workings of megaupload or this new service)
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Everything on the new service is encrypted to the end user, so what you are saying could not happen.
 
Offering a free 50GB to everyone doesn't really matter anyway. Just how many people are going to use all that? I'm currently using 1.2GB of my 26GB dropbox space.
 
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