Mega File Sharing

alexthecheese said:
For credit assessment and debt collection purposes.
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Yes, my point was though that the exact phrase used is so open that it could be a cause for concern. That being said, I'm not sure if it's a boilerplate T&Cs document or not.

Is any other person limited to credit agencies or does it encompass any firm that provides credit and if so what level of protection is on that information to ensure it doesn't fall victim to bogus requests?
 
ntg said:
It's not something that people who cared about the privacy of their data were not doing before.

It appears that this is now done automatically by that website, but it doesn't mean everyone will want to go through that process. What happens if you want to share data with colleagues etc? It just gets cumbersome.

All in all, it adds a feature that most people don't really care, and those that do already had a process in place before it.
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It's there to make life harder for the anti-piracy companies.
 
KIA said:
It's there to make life harder for the anti-piracy companies.
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Not that Kim dotcom would ever profit from or encourage such things in anyway shape or form as he is afterall a moral upstanding member of community who would never stoop so low as to make millions on the back of the creative industries with putting anything back in?

Hope hi new company folds into the hyperbole it was created out of.
 
scrlk said:
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It's a trap! :p

Funny that it ends up in a location where the headquarters of many three letter agencies are located.
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That is preeety strange!

Also Anon are apparrently trying to DDOS it as theyre calling kim a scumbag snitch!
 
oulton said:
That is preeety strange!

Also Anon are apparrently trying to DDOS it as theyre calling kim a scumbag snitch!
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For the first phase of Mega.co.nz, the new service is being hosted by servers in Dotcom's home country of Germany.

The company doing the hosting is the German subsidiary of Cogent, a Washington DC-based company that operates globally – and which supplied services to Megaupload.

Dotcom sees Nasdaq-listed Cogent [NAS:CCOI] coming back on-board as a major vote of confidence in his business plan, and his legal arguments for the new service.
 
Skillmister said:
It's not really. But that is Kims whole point. Why did he get raided when the rest didn't?
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That is not a point. He was raided because his website was hosting illegal content. Whether others should be raided as well does not matter. It's like a thief claiming that he shouldn't be arrested because there are many other thiefs out there roaming free.

Anyway, storm in a teacup
 
ntg said:
That is not a point. He was raided because his website was hosting illegal content. Whether others should be raided as well does not matter. It's like a thief claiming that he shouldn't be arrested because there are many other thiefs out there roaming free.

Anyway, storm in a teacup
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Not really, its more like a hotel owner complaining that the authorities raided his hotel because escorts were renting rooms there, then burned his hotel to the ground. Meanwhile all the other hotels in the area are the same.
 
I'm sorry but I have to get this off my chest...

What's to say / stop you making many accounts and adding software / music to this 'dropbox' style site and then selling access?

For example...
Paul signs up for an account, drops 50GB of latest music onto a share. Paul makes a website to advertise this. Paul gets paid by Peter and then adds Peter's email address to the 'allowed' access. Peter is paying for a subscription or a one off service to copyrighted content.

How can copyright be stopped.... Even dropbox 'could' in theory be used to share copyright content...... I'm a tad confused over this privacy matter and all this file sharing business isn't going to stop any time soon. File sharing is just moving on to new services.
 
I think that unless they give and incentive to upload there, it wont do as well as last time. I think they gave cash last time after a certain amount of downloads, I hope they do the same again.
 
Megaupload assisted a US prosecution of a smaller file-sharing service in 2010, 18 months before it itself was the target of a high-profile copyright-infringement lawsuit.

The Kim Dotcom-fronted file-hosting website Megaupload turned over details of five of its users in response to a June 2010 against NinjaVideo. This latter website piggy-backed on Megaupload's Megavideo streaming service. Federal investigators treated Megaupload as an innocent conduit for the alleged distribution of 39 pirated movies via NinjaVideo.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/22/megaupload/
 
Finally managed to get a file up, it was going at a measly 200KB/s on Firefox but went at 1.2MB/s on chrome. Amusingly it won't let me download it through Firefox as apparently the browser is "too old" . Download speed is OK, ~5MB/s but nothing fantastic like the old MU used to be.
 
I'm using Chrome myself and it's still very slow with uploads. I'm hoping it's just because Mega is being bombarded with people going " Shut up and take my data!"

I'm looking forward to a client for smartphones and desktops.
 
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