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Re: Mega has launched

#141

Post by rplnt »

x3sphere wrote: post #136
georgeorwell wrote: post #105

I see Kim Dotcom as a stereotypical gangster who makes money by delivering illegal products. He has the narcissistic personality and lifestyle trappings to go with it. He even wants to buy protection from New Zealand itself by bringing free fibre optic cable to the island! It's just hard for me to respect the man, because he's not fighting for information freedom, he's fighting for as much cash, status, and power as…

How are his products illegal? It's not like Skydrive and Google Drive are devoid of pirated content. Also Megaupload was a very valuable service back in the day when there wasn't many upload providers around..

Megaupload was selling access to content, not ability to store data. The users who downloaded data were the ones that had to pay. Only way this type of service is profitable is when it has "stuff" that is wanted by masses of people. And since Megaupload didn't produce/resell anything, illegal content is the only other option.

Also, during the time megauplaod existed, there always were upload providers. Megaupload came quite late into the game.

Re: Mega has launched

#142

Post by rplnt »

eps wrote: post #18
hahla wrote: post #8

Site is getting completely hammered as of 15 minutes ago, Kim posted this on his twitter ( https://twitter.com/KimDotcom ): "Wow. I have never seen anything like this. From 0 to 10 Gigabit bandwidth utilization within 10 minutes."

I wonder if all this traffic is genuine or if it's a DDoS.

See these comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084145

Re: Mega has launched

#143

Post by zxtang »

zalew wrote: post #57

"Warning: You are using an outdated browser, which adversely affects your file transfer performance. Please upgrade to Google Chrome." is this a joke? I'm on FF19

Here's what they have to say regarding browsers: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1

Basically, only Chrome seems to be supported because it is "the most advanced browser currently in existence"

Re: Mega has launched

#144

Post by rplnt »

Horrible site. Ignoring the fact it doesn't work in older versions of Opera, it's like early 00's and full-flash sites all over again.

Re: Mega has launched

#145

Post by gscott »

georgeorwell wrote: post #105

I see Kim Dotcom as a stereotypical gangster who makes money by delivering illegal products. He has the narcissistic personality and lifestyle trappings to go with it. He even wants to buy protection from New Zealand itself by bringing free fibre optic cable to the island! It's just hard for me to respect the man, because he's not fighting for information freedom, he's fighting for as much cash, status, and power as…

Eventually everyone wants to eat more than Top Ramen...

Re: Mega has launched

#146

Post by georgeorwell »

alexqgb wrote: post #124
georgeorwell wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone knows that it's Daft Punk. Credit isn't needed. What do you want? "Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer. Thanks Daft Punk for all the music!" Daft Punk sold out by their second album anyway, they're hardly underground geniuses in want of credit now. Nonetheless, I think it's just more grandiosity and find it irritating that he riffed on the chorus at all.

What do I want? For him to be thrown in jail. I honestly don't care about people swapping media between themselves. But setting up an exchange to do that, and paying for it by selling space to advertisers? That's not "sharing". That's business. And that business would collapse if he had to pay the copyright holders he depends on. In general, audiences have NO idea how much time, effort, etc. it takes to produce decen…

For what it's worth, I also have a much bigger problem with commercial copyright infringement than non-commercial copyright infringement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5084439

I can see how the Daft Punk thing would get on your nerves. It seems like all this man does is use people.

Re: Mega has launched

#149

Post by af3 »

rplnt wrote: post #141
x3sphere wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are his products illegal? It's not like Skydrive and Google Drive are devoid of pirated content. Also Megaupload was a very valuable service back in the day when there wasn't many upload providers around..

Megaupload was selling access to content, not ability to store data. The users who downloaded data were the ones that had to pay. Only way this type of service is profitable is when it has "stuff" that is wanted by masses of people. And since Megaupload didn't produce/resell anything, illegal content is the only other option. Also, during the time megauplaod existed, there always were upload providers. Megaupload cam…

> Megaupload was selling access to content

Google and Co is also selling... your content whenever is legal or not

Re: Mega has launched

#150

Post by alexqgb »

af3 wrote: post #149
rplnt wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Megaupload was selling access to content, not ability to store data. The users who downloaded data were the ones that had to pay. Only way this type of service is profitable is when it has "stuff" that is wanted by masses of people. And since Megaupload didn't produce/resell anything, illegal content is the only other option. Also, during the time megauplaod existed, there always were upload providers. Megaupload cam…

> Megaupload was selling access to content Google and Co is also selling... your content whenever is legal or not

Can you go to google.com/somethingyouwantforfree and just download it?

No, no you can't.

There is a wildly obvious difference here and unless you're being deliberately dishonest, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to see it.

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