• MegaUpload returning Jan. 19th
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[URL]http://mega.co.nz/#/[/URL] Looks like Kim Dotcom is back in action. It looks like it's apparently going to be hosted all over the world to prevent being shut down. Every user will also get 50 GB of cloud storage for free. [quote]In just a few more days, [URL="http://www.geek.com/articles/tagged/megaupload/"]MegaUpload[/URL] will be reborn as Kim Dotcom’s new [I]Mega[/I] service. The larger-than-life Dotcom has been boisterous (as always) in making his excitement known about the completely re-built cloud storage service, and now he’s dangling some additional carrots for potential users. First up: those who register for a free account on Mega will receive a whopping 50GB of storage for their files. That’s a heck of a lot more space than any other service on the web. Popular options like Dropbox and Sugarsync typically offer 2-5GB at no charge, with additional free space offered for referrals. Microsoft provided existing SkyDrive users with a fairly generous 25GB when the service was re-launched prior to the release of Windows 8, but even that is only half what’s Mega is providing. Box.net is really about the only service that’s been this generous, running several promotions in the past for new owners of devices like the BlackBerry PlayBook or HP TouchPad and once to try and lure iOS users [URL="http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/box-net-luring-icloud-users-with-50gb-free-storage-20111014/"]away from iCloud[/URL]. Dotcom is also excited because he and the EFF are working together to reclaim users’ data. If their efforts are successful, Dotcom says that files will be automatically moved to accounts on the new service for easy retrieval. Beyond returning the long-lost data, he also wants to bestow premium account status on the new Mega to former MegaUpload premium users. Dotcom’s legal eagles say that’s not possible just yet, but they’re working on it. You can almost hear the teeth grinding away in Hollywood if you listen really hard. While the MegaUpload takedown looked like a major victory for copyright groups in the beginning, it looks like the celebration might have been a little premature.[/quote] SOURCE: [URL]http://www.geek.com/articles/news/the-new-megaupload-will-dish-out-50gb-of-cloud-storage-for-free-20130117/[/URL]
Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.
this will probably become a popular thread.
I remember when Mega Upload was used quite a bit through torrents and what not. Now it just won't be the same again.
Eh I personally liked megaupload, so cool news/ I'm glad to have them back
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] I think its just good to hear that its coming back out of principle. Its not the best, but it was wrong that it got shut down in the first place.
Yeah honestly I never liked having to use megaupload, yet when it got shut down I still acted as if it actually affected me. I don't think I really care at all though. As a musician however I'm interested in megabox, if that's still a thing.
Can't wait to download totally legal large files from YouTube again!
investors? who in their right mind would invest in this after what happened with megaupload
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] Eh, it was probably one of the least hassling uploaders in my experience; worked 99% of the time, didn't make you wait too long (I may be wrong on this one though, because I remember waiting but not how long you did). Plus it's good that something so unlawfully shut down got back up again.
sweet
Awesome.
I always liked megaupload. Definitely beat rapidshare's eternal waiting times and slow ass speeds back in the not so far days.
[QUOTE=Magikoopa24;39261895]Eh, it was probably one of the least hassling uploaders in my experience; worked 99% of the time, didn't make you wait too long (I may be wrong on this one though, because I remember waiting but not how long you did). Plus it's good that something so unlawfully shut down got back up again.[/QUOTE] Are you kidding? You had to wait ages to download a file and the speeds were shit unless you had premium, literally almost every service was better. IMO Mediafire is the best.
[QUOTE=JerryK;39261850]investors? who in their right mind would invest in this after what happened with megaupload[/QUOTE] I would invest if only for the short term. I think this is a much better investment than say Facebook ever was. I think investors could make a lot of money off of Dotcom.
[QUOTE=Diago21;39261944]Are you kidding? You had to wait ages to download a file and the speeds were shit unless you had premium, literally almost every service was better. IMO Mediafire is the best.[/QUOTE] I'm talking about the wait BEFORE the download, actually; some places (rapidshare I think, the irony) make you wait a minute (if you weren't a donator) to download the file, and then the file would not work. Agreed though, Mediafire is better than most uploaders.
[QUOTE=Diago21;39261944]Are you kidding? You had to wait ages to download a file and the speeds were shit unless you had premium, literally almost every service was better. IMO Mediafire is the best.[/QUOTE] If you weren't a free member you had to wait 45 seconds, and if you were a free member, you only had a 25 second wait time. The speeds were definitely better than rapidshare and a lot of other services, and I do agree that Mediafire is the best.
Puush and dropbox are nice, but megavideo coming back will also be pretty sweet. And I could probably find a use for 50GB of free online storage.
I used to use MU almost exclusively - it is a great alternative to torrents on campus.
[QUOTE=RinVII;39261947]I would invest if only for the short term. I think this is a much better investment than say Facebook ever was. I think investors could make a lot of money off of Dotcom.[/QUOTE] Seriously? A better investment than something that's used by possibly over 10% of the world's population.
Couldn't ICE or some other federal agency just compel ICANN to delist the site from the master DNS servers or whatever so no one can access it like they did that one time to some sites selling counterfeit merchandise?
[QUOTE=Diago21;39261944]Are you kidding? You had to wait ages to download a file and the speeds were shit unless you had premium, literally almost every service was better. IMO Mediafire is the best.[/QUOTE] The stupid wait times and slow speeds disappeared as soon as you logged in with a free account. I mean there was still wait times but they were like 5 seconds.
Guessing it won't be back in the US, so there goes a large block of it's previous userbase.
[QUOTE=Kuro.;39262029]Couldn't ICE or some other federal agency just compel ICANN to delist the site from the master DNS servers or whatever so no one can access it like they did that one time to some sites selling counterfeit merchandise?[/QUOTE] They could just take a hint from Wikileaks and the piratebay and stay the hell away from anything to do with American domains.
While it wasn't the best, I found it convenient, widely used, and very reliable. I'm not shelling out for a premium account, but it could have been a lot worse. Now if only all of those files seized could be returned. So many episodes of so many shows lost...
50GB is niiiiiice.
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] Sites that let you watch streams of Linux Distros were very useful and reliable with megaupload, especially when they could get around the watch limit ;) Well technically I'm thinking of megavideo, but I think megaupload was used to stream Linux distros on certain sites, regardless the limit was bypassable.
[QUOTE=Irkalla;39261776]Who gives a shit? Megaupload was shit anyway. I hated it when people uploaded shit to Megaupload. My life has been better without it.[/QUOTE] What I hated more is all of the download links for models that were lost when Megaupload was taken down.
When megaupload got shut down, I lost a LOT of linux distros that I personally valued highly. They will be missed.
I didn't like any of the download websites like Rapidshare, etc., back in the day but I was the least mad when something was uploaded on Megaupload. I never had any real problems with speed from them.
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