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Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by kami8845 »

j_s wrote: post #11
telecuda wrote: post #6

Here's the part I don't get: IP addresses, file ownership and payment info are stored unencrypted ( http://bit.ly/VswkJi ). If someone or something is advertising they have a trove of copyrighted material, the standard procedure for law enforcement is to subpoena the cloud provider for the IP of the user, then the ISP for the subscriber's physical name/address. When they confiscate their computer they'll find the dat…

Why is bit.ly showing up so often these days? https://mega.co.nz/#help_security

because HN's markup is stupid

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by Dylan16807 »

SODaniel wrote: post #2

This being a publicly available index pointing to data stored, I can only assume that encrypted or not the owner of 'mega' is still liable for any copyrighted material hosted.

It's the internet. You can't trust the labels on things, especially when it comes to piracy.

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Post by nolok »

coverband wrote: post #38

Putting the owner's megalomania to the side for a minute, I really admire how the guys behind this are putting it all together. First of all, (AFAIK) this is a high-volume/high-capacity site which was built in a record short time. Not only that, but they promised it would be coming Jan 2013, and they made it on time, such a rare outcome for an IT project. One also has to appreciate how they made sure everyone has hea…

The part that gets me is that, had they (RIAA, MPAA, FBI, whoever) acted legally, they probably could have had something on him, I mean they didn't need to find a lot, only a little something somewhere. But no; they wanted to do it fast and with shock, probably to scare others and make sure megaupload went down, something that fits with the way they fight against piracy for the past decade or so.

It just went so horribly wrong, first the NZ judge actually respect the law instead of bowing down like it seems they expected, then the guy they fight against has the balls to match his ego and refuse to go down to bullying, and then the hydra of piracy strikes again and proves why taking megaupload down didn't really matter.

Kind of ironic how their fight against "illegal activities" fails because they refuse to use legal means.

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by doublec »

codemac wrote: post #3

Firefox 19.0 (a beta release) is too old to download a file? Can someone explain this to me? I wish they'd tell me exactly which API they're using..

Mega are using the file-system-api: http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/

It hasn't been widely implemented and may be due for change: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012OctDe...

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by jhuckestein »

bbx wrote: post #29
bitsoda wrote: post #10

I just noticed something: Mega's cloud loading image seems to be a slightly altered rip of this image from Stripe's website, just animated. Mega [ http://i.imgur.com/PH90lZ3.png ] Stripe [ https://stripe.com/img/frontpage/api-cloud.png ]

I find these gears icons funny because it is implied that all 3 gears touch each other mutually . But obviously, such a setup would prevent the whole machinery to work at all.

This is true for the Stripe one. The Mega one works (otherwise they couldn't have animated it ;))

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by cheapsteak »

slig wrote: post #24

I searched for a very popular TV series and the first link was "$name_S01E01.avi", size ~500mb. Clicking on it, I gor redirect to mega.co.nz to download "movie.exe", 715KB. https://mega.co.nz/#!wkkjXISD!UPFZQG9uxKk4dt34u1dmpncoy8wUJk...

Interesting, my result's s1 e1.avi was also linking to a movie.exe

The other episodes were linking to 500+mb avi files though

There is a up-vote/down-vote system so these probably wouldn't be too problematic

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by dewey »

sergiotapia wrote: post #40

Can someone clear this up for me? How can I download someone's private uploads? Is the key to "unlock" the file embedded in the URL gibberish?

Correct, that's the file key and you can choose between appending it to the URL or transfer it to a friend through a secure channel.

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by sergiotapia »

dewey wrote: post #47
sergiotapia wrote: post #40

Can someone clear this up for me? How can I download someone's private uploads? Is the key to "unlock" the file embedded in the URL gibberish?

Correct, that's the file key and you can choose between appending it to the URL or transfer it to a friend through a secure channel.

Thank you for answering so quickly. So where is this scraper getting the URL's from? A forum or something?

Re: First mega.co.nz indexer and search engine

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Post by Gravityloss »

bbx wrote: post #29
bitsoda wrote: post #10

I just noticed something: Mega's cloud loading image seems to be a slightly altered rip of this image from Stripe's website, just animated. Mega [ http://i.imgur.com/PH90lZ3.png ] Stripe [ https://stripe.com/img/frontpage/api-cloud.png ]

I find these gears icons funny because it is implied that all 3 gears touch each other mutually . But obviously, such a setup would prevent the whole machinery to work at all.

I always visualize them being offset in Z. Like if you're looking at a car transmission from the axle direction.
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