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What function does a half baked google docs clone serve here?
He's doing his best to be comparable to Google and it provides a thin veil of legitimacy. The core business will still be based around copyright infringement, this is all just "plausible denyablity" in action. Interesting to see how it plays out.
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Which is better? Dropbox or Mega?
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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.
This would allow them to do deduplication at the block level (see ZFS for example).
From the mega website "Mega are looking for investors". Can someone explain why they'd do that? Kim has more than enough money to cover all of the costs of this site yet he'd rather get investors? I never understood when to use my own money or raise money for my startup.
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.
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they say, all files will be client-side encrypted which won't allow them to "deduplicate" anything.
Just because a file is encrypted doesn't mean that a small block doesn't match another encrypted block even if the two are from two different files. This would allow them to do deduplication at the block level (see ZFS for example).
What's the probability of two 4KB (or whatever) blocks of random data being identical? Basically zero even with petabytes of data.
Does this shotgun approach to storage offer them extra protection against law enforcement? Or is it just a way to try and minimise storage costs.
My guess is both.
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.
Copyright infringement on a mass scale: not shady. Replacing ads with other ads: shady. -_-
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.
Copyright infringement on a mass scale: not shady. Replacing ads with other ads: shady. -_-
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Copyright infringement on a mass scale: not shady. Replacing ads with other ads: shady. -_-
I guess it depends on one's opinion about copyright law.
I'd go further to say that this cognitive dissonance is the product of how money is made in Silicon Valley 2.0: through advertising rather than sales of content.