MeGa Is Back!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564855-93/kim-dotcoms-mega-goes-live/

Woo... to bad that its servers are way to flooded. :

Anybody else was a fan of Megaupload.?

or comments on this

Looks interesting, but I still prefer torrents to download stuff.
Will use it as storage. 50Gb free is nice.

PS. back to porn downloads

I remember the shitstorm that started after the feds took down megaupload.
I probably won't be using it now that it will be closely monitored, but still, congrats to Kim

I haven't used such sites in quite some time, but this particular case has interesting undercurrents for me aside from the assault on digital freedoms and privacy.

One thing that has always bothered me is seeing such quotes as "Prosecutors say Dotcom made tens of millions of dollars while filmmakers and songwriters lost around $500 million in copyright revenue." - CBC. This rests on the very false premise that everyone who downloaded copyrighted material would have purchased everything they downloaded if the piracy route wasn't available. I would accept that a very small percentage would have purchased some small part of what they downloaded but I think most people are just filling empty space with content that falls outside their budget and would otherwise have lived without the content. I suspect that many of those with terabytes of music couldn't afford to pay for all of it if they sunk several years pay into just the music but the music industry prosecutors would still claim that they had lost that much revenue from those people.

People pay for things that are awesome to them (PoE!) or have added value (signable hardcopies, booklets, higher quality, a collectible nature). Imagine that a musician should have to actually stay on tour and/or come up with something virally original (Gangnam Style) to make money. Or that a filmmaker have to actually make a good film that can stay in theatre or release a disc/case that people would want to collect.

The film and music industries are failing to adapt with the times. The gaming industry is starting to with the move to F2P games (or account-based online-only connections). Whether people pay to win or pay to shine, piracy is impossible and people pay.

I'm surprised motorists aren't being fined for broadcasting music to the masses.. many of them are daring to play their CDs loud enough to reach beyond the privacy of their vehicles and every so often I catch glimpses of movies on their little travel screens. Gosh, the millions in revenue lost from copyright infringement in any given traffic jam just blows my mind. ;)

I tend not to listen to any of the big artists anymore (or watch new movies just because they're new), preferring to support the interesting YouTube hopefuls that show great promise. My money would be wasted on the big artists and the YouTubers are often better anyway.

That said, I hate cloud storage.. even soldered-in flash storage bothers me a bit because I can't physically remove/replace/upgrade the storage. So I won't be using Mega, but its poking at the government and broken copyright law amuses me.

im mostly going use it to store my raw Recording Videos of Games. it eats up GB fast.;p