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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by notahacker »

lubos wrote: post #5

Aren't we talking a lot about freemium models here? This thing is going to implode, there is no way it will ever break-even. There are three requirements any freemium model needs to meet to be successful. 1.) Large addressable market 2.) Minimal marginal costs per free user 3.) Enough features in premium tier to convert sizable portion of free users I think the only point 1 is met. Giving 50 GB of free storage to fre…

It's a race to see what happens first: it runs out of money or has its assets seized by the government agencies that went after Kim Dotcom's last, similar business. The whole exercise is basically a massive middle finger directed at them.

That's the other monetisation problem: people are not going to want to store anything on Mega's servers if they're relying on stable long term access to it, which means they're not likely to pay. Good free storage for your movie downloads though.

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by lubos »

joenathan wrote: post #9
kordless wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> cost up to $5 a month Your opinion. Storage is constantly getting cheaper.

Agreed and not to mention that most people won't use anything close to the 50GB, combine that with the deduplication plans they have and you have a very different scenario.

they say, all files will be client-side encrypted which won't allow them to "deduplicate" anything.

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by w1ntermute »

FredFredrickson wrote: post #7

Am I the only one who just yawned when Megaupload was taken down? I have no ill-will towards the people who run or use that (or those types of) site, and I don't really like how the government handled the Megaupload thing, but with the proliferation of cloud storage sites hosted by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, etc., it just seems stupid to subject yourself to all the security issues, fake download buttons, ads…

MegaUpload fulfilled a very different purpose from those other sites. There were no security issues, that's pure FUD. And you could disable all ads by paying. Or by using JDownloader (free).

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by joenathan »

lubos wrote: post #12
joenathan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed and not to mention that most people won't use anything close to the 50GB, combine that with the deduplication plans they have and you have a very different scenario.

they say, all files will be client-side encrypted which won't allow them to "deduplicate" anything.

There was a discussion the other day on how this was possible, where a hash would be created and that would allow for both encryption and deduplication. Let me see if I can find it.

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by lubos »

joenathan wrote: post #15
lubos wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they say, all files will be client-side encrypted which won't allow them to "deduplicate" anything.

There was a discussion the other day on how this was possible, where a hash would be created and that would allow for both encryption and deduplication. Let me see if I can find it.

I understand this would be possible but then they are essentially lying about their privacy attributes.

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by TylerE »

lubos wrote: post #16
joenathan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a discussion the other day on how this was possible, where a hash would be created and that would allow for both encryption and deduplication. Let me see if I can find it.

I understand this would be possible but then they are essentially lying about their privacy attributes.

Doesn't seem like an unreasonable assumption to me.

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by RandallBrown »

The real question is will this become the ad-laden bastion of illegal movies and tv shows that MegaVideo was before it was taken down? While annoying to use, it sure was convenient when you wanted to watch a show or movie that was impossible to buy legally.

Re: Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users

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Post by josso »

modeless wrote: post #2

I thought I heard that Mega was going to be partially funded by browser extensions that replace ads on third-party sites with Mega-affiliated ads. Is that not actually going to happen? It was the one part of the new Mega that sounded really shady.

You are thinking of Megabox which is supposedly[1] going to launch later this year.

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/dotcoms-megabox-to-launch-a-few-mont...

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