Mega

[C.J]

So, Dotcom has launched another site (yesterday) called Mega.

I've signed up, mainly for the 50GB free storage (considerably more than any other free site).

https://mega.co.nz

Do you think it'll last? It seems he's added more security to ensure he's not caught up in future claims against piracy.

 

[Adam.]

Brilliant.

 

[KDF]

Ye they will be legal this time. Already signed up but uploads don't seem to be working :S

 

[dk]

personally i won't be signing up as if any site is going to be taken down, its one of his, and i don't want to store stuff on it for it, especially gigs worth to then have it taken away one day when it possibly gets taken down.

 

[dk]

i wonder if the whole encryption with you owning the decryption key is about them then not knowing whats stored on the servers and so can't be held accountable?

 

[Heez]

i wonder if the whole encryption with you owning the decryption key is about them then not knowing whats stored on the servers and so can't be held accountable?

Pretty sure that's the exact reasoning behind it.

 

[C.J]

i wonder if the whole encryption with you owning the decryption key is about them then not knowing whats stored on the servers and so can't be held accountable?

That's the reason.

 

[dk]

just looked at the become a hosting partner page and it has this

Unfortunately, we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user-generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.

 

[KDF]

personally i won't be signing up as if any site is going to be taken down, its one of his, and i don't want to store stuff on it for it, especially gigs worth to then have it taken away one day when it possibly gets taken down.

I am using it as a cloud backup of my personal content... holiday photos, videos etc. should it go down I will re-upload the content elsewhere. Handy if my local storage goes tits up

Or at least I would be if the uploader worked !

 

[Greeny.]

Ill be keeping with my local NAS storage, I have no need to store pics etc online really, RAID5 ftw.

 

[Sym0n]

just looked at the become a hosting partner page and it has this

A lot of people won't store anything on a server in the states anymore, due to the US government having full access to anything stored there and their stupid domain seizure policy; so I'm not surprised Kim has gone down this route...plus he's rubbing it in their face that they made a mess of it last time.

 

[KDF]

Ill be keeping with my local NAS storage, I have no need to store pics etc online really, RAID5 ftw.

My array is RAID5, but RAID5 != backup/safe etc.

 

[KDF]

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/...fileshare-service-riddled-with-security-holes