+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted January 19, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted January 19, 2013 Kim Dotcom's new Mega storage service is live Marking the anniversary of Megaupload's takedown, Kim Dotcom's new file storage service Mega is now live. The service, intended as a competitor to popular storage solutions such as Dropbox, is a simple, drag-and-drop storage solution with heavy encryption, intended to protect both users and the site's owners from copyright infringement issues. Users will receive a complementary 50GB of storage on Mega's servers, and the service offers a slew of other paid tiers. For ?9.99, ?19.99 or ?29.99, users can get 500GB, 2TB, and 4TB of cloud storage, and these tiers allow users to share their files with more people. Javascript is not enabled or refresh the page to view. Click here to view the Tweet Javascript is not enabled or refresh the page to view. Click here to view the Tweet Source: The Verge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.XXIV Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I just might make use of it. :D I'm proud of this new platform he created. It looks nice! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.MULLA Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 registered.. i get registration email but fails to login... Ok had to close window and relaunch (using firefox). MEGA works best with Chrome... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guth Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 signing up now, love the encryption idea and system. Very clever Its slow justnow, but guess its getting hit pretty hard ATM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Servers are overloaded...Very slow to register. SuperKid and Nothing Here 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jub Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I am SO impressed that it's still alive, even if it's slow-ish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperKid Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 This sure does look good indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 19, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2013 So just to be clear do you still need to register if all you want to do is download files that someone else is sharing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 wating 5 minutes so far at the spinning cursor thingy... mega slow. Crisp and Guth 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperKid Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Uh oh service seems to be overloaded now! wating 5 minutes so far at the spinning cursor thingy... mega slow. Its probably millions of people trying to check it out for curiosity now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 100,000 users registered within 1hr, thats why it is slow :p SuperKid 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Berry Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Mega loaded up within a few seconds here using Google Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacon Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 IP's located in the US. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Battery Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 As cool as this is, how many of you are wondering how long your stuff will stay available until something goes wrong? I really don't want to knock this, I know Im being a geek, but we are all thinking this right, its not just me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linsook Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 As cool as this is, how many of you are wondering how long your stuff will stay available until something goes wrong? I really don't want to knock this, I know Im being a geek, but we are all thinking this right, its not just me? Redundancy.. Always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 19, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted January 19, 2013 Well I can't even go to the main site it seems unless this thing has some ****ty requirement to use chrome or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted January 19, 2013 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2013 Well I can't even go to the main site it seems unless this thing has some ****ty requirement to use chrome or something. If you're not using Chrome it gives you a warning saying that you that you are using an 'outdated browser'. You can tell it not to show the warning again though, and as far as I can see the site functions fine using Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Xinok Subscriber² Posted January 19, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted January 19, 2013 According to the service, files are encrypted locally before being uploaded to the server and they never know the encryption keys. A few cloud backup services, including SpiderOak, BackBlaze, and CrashPlan have similar security, except that you must provide them with your password in order to download files from the web client. Wuala is an exception, but it runs as a Java applet in your browser which is how it handles the local decryption of files. So a simple question: How does Mega handle the local encryption and decryption of files when uploading and downloading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 URL is timing out. How is Kimble going to start his "Get out of Jail" fed-honeypot if you guys can't sign up and put your IP in his logs and illegal warez in his datatubes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ady199 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 It must be getting hammered at the moment - I managed to register in seconds and activated my account without any issues but I've now tried to upload some PDFs (5 in total, sizes ranging from 495kb to 45mb) but its just sitting there and just says pending - its been like that now for 5 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOOOOOOO Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Brilliant ... except all effing day it's been down. Pretty bad advertisement for a cloud hosting company :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guth Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 http://thenextweb.co...fe/?fromcat=all Look at the image he posted, MegaMovie with the caption "MPAA lets talk" hahaha this guy is nuts. Looks like they are going to start movie streaming (legit i guess. probably. maybe.) :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippleman Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Brilliant ... except all effing day it's been down. Pretty bad advertisement for a cloud hosting company :D For a free service that will get hammered by millions of people in the first day, this has been 100% expected by most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted January 19, 2013 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2013 This is what I find funny, no servers in usa lol SuperKid, szo and Brandon H 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing Here Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Very slow to reg right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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