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The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has

The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.

raninepaths 5y ago
i use it as a backup tool. thier gui mega is also good.
senectus1 5y ago
yeah i love it as well. plus i can buy the premium service in BTC...
- VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
  But why would anyone buy anything with BTC?
  - WrtCdEvrydy 5y ago
    But why would anyone buy anything with USD cash?
    - VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
      because my 1 USA dollar is unlikely to be worth 10,000 USA dollars within a year or two. In fact, it will most likely still be worth 1 USA dollar
      - StanislavPetrov 5y ago
        My 1 bitcoin will still be worth 1 bitcoin within a year or two also.
        VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
        but will the purchase power still be the same? or wildly different. you see the point
      - red369 5y ago
        Perhaps ignoring for the sake of my question, whether the demand for Bitcoin will increase enough for the price to increase 10,000 times (or perhaps people misplacing their bitcoins, anything else?)... I'm curious about your thoughts on something. If someone thought the price would go up by that much, wouldn't it make sense to put all available money into Bitcoin, except enough to make payments where only USD (or not Bitcoin) is accepted - plus some emergency fund, etc. Because they would be keeping all possible money in Bitcoin, I think it would make more sense for someone who thought it was likely Bitcoin was going to increase 10,000 times in the next year to make every possible purchase in Bitcoin. Am I missing something? Transaction fees have been 'sorted' now with other layers, right? Disclaimer: I have always been fairly skeptical of increases in cryptocurrency prices (which means I've been wrong so far), and don't see the use cases which will lead to it holding value long term. I also have some tiny amount (fraction) of Bitcoin as change from some experimentation earlier, so I suppose I would benefit greatly from a 10,000 increase. It has already increased to more than I put in to begin with I suppose, so even that small amount might earn more next year than I would from doing a day job. Editing to note: the last sentence does look a bit sarcastic, but it is meant it in friendly jest. I think long term holders of cryptocurrencies have done very well so far, so hopefully they won't grudge me thinking the huge increases sound to good to be true. Also, I see someone has noted the high fees in another comment, so perhaps this issue is not solved.
      - jokethrowaway 5y ago
        it's likely to be worth 0.925 today USD
  - bonestamp2 5y ago
    I get that the fees are high, but if that is where you happen to have a lot of value stored, then maybe it is still worthwhile... especially if they want a degree of anonymity.
  - 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
    Cuz it's kinda cool?
ComradePhil 5y ago
Yes, MEGA is amazing. Unlike Megaupload, I have only used MEGA for personal use and not pirated content download. I think MEGA being fully encrypted was their answer to them being targeted for hosting any illegal content (with MEGA, they were hosting encrypted files, which they don't have access to themselves because the encryption key remains with the client). Did it take off as the replacement for pirated content sharing because of it?
- qalmakka 5y ago
  I know as a fact that there's a lot of pirated content shared on MEGA online, but that's also true for Google Drive though.
- ReaLNero 5y ago
  I never really understood how MEGA is any better. Sure, personal files are encrypted, and thus it's hard to detect pirated files that I upload for myself. But a lot of piracy happens with publicly downloadable files, which MEGA can definitely decrypt and search for copyright violations. I'll be honest -- I've used both MEGA and Megaupload for piracy, and MEGA makes it easier.
  - SXX 5y ago
    How can MEGA decrypt those "publicly shared" files to scan them? Do you think they should scan whole internet for such file links?
    - stjohnswarts 5y ago
      I think only a zealot or MPAA/RIAA lawyer is blinded enough to see that as an actual answer to your question :)
  - jffry 5y ago
    > But a lot of piracy happens with publicly downloadable files, which MEGA can definitely decrypt and search for copyright violations How would MEGA do this, without crawling the web looking for links + keys? Which is certainly something they'd have no interest in doing. Naturally, I'm sure that third party "rights enforcement" companies might trawl for these links and look for infringing content and issue a takedown notice to MEGA, but there must be an ongoing arms race between people sharing links+keys and the bots crawling for them.
eminence32 5y ago
Interestingly, a large percentage of my incoming spam has a mega.nz reply-to/return-path. Does mega.nz allow anonymous emails, or are these just spoofed?
- folmar 5y ago
  I get spoofed ones.
phasersout 5y ago
It also has by far the most sophisticated settings for any cloud drive I've seen so far
kube-system 5y ago
I don’t understand why anyone would trust MEGA when there are other good storage options without the baggage.
- antifa 5y ago
  Back in the day, MEGA offered 50GB for free and the product was actually pretty good. Sad to see new users don't get that generous of an offer.

raninepaths 5y ago

i use it as a backup tool. thier gui mega is also good.

senectus1 5y ago

yeah i love it as well. plus i can buy the premium service in BTC...

VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
But why would anyone buy anything with BTC?
- WrtCdEvrydy 5y ago
  But why would anyone buy anything with USD cash?
  - VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
    because my 1 USA dollar is unlikely to be worth 10,000 USA dollars within a year or two. In fact, it will most likely still be worth 1 USA dollar
    - StanislavPetrov 5y ago
      My 1 bitcoin will still be worth 1 bitcoin within a year or two also.
      - VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
        but will the purchase power still be the same? or wildly different. you see the point
    - red369 5y ago
      Perhaps ignoring for the sake of my question, whether the demand for Bitcoin will increase enough for the price to increase 10,000 times (or perhaps people misplacing their bitcoins, anything else?)... I'm curious about your thoughts on something. If someone thought the price would go up by that much, wouldn't it make sense to put all available money into Bitcoin, except enough to make payments where only USD (or not Bitcoin) is accepted - plus some emergency fund, etc. Because they would be keeping all possible money in Bitcoin, I think it would make more sense for someone who thought it was likely Bitcoin was going to increase 10,000 times in the next year to make every possible purchase in Bitcoin. Am I missing something? Transaction fees have been 'sorted' now with other layers, right? Disclaimer: I have always been fairly skeptical of increases in cryptocurrency prices (which means I've been wrong so far), and don't see the use cases which will lead to it holding value long term. I also have some tiny amount (fraction) of Bitcoin as change from some experimentation earlier, so I suppose I would benefit greatly from a 10,000 increase. It has already increased to more than I put in to begin with I suppose, so even that small amount might earn more next year than I would from doing a day job. Editing to note: the last sentence does look a bit sarcastic, but it is meant it in friendly jest. I think long term holders of cryptocurrencies have done very well so far, so hopefully they won't grudge me thinking the huge increases sound to good to be true. Also, I see someone has noted the high fees in another comment, so perhaps this issue is not solved.
    - jokethrowaway 5y ago
      it's likely to be worth 0.925 today USD
- bonestamp2 5y ago
  I get that the fees are high, but if that is where you happen to have a lot of value stored, then maybe it is still worthwhile... especially if they want a degree of anonymity.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  Cuz it's kinda cool?

ComradePhil 5y ago

Yes, MEGA is amazing. Unlike Megaupload, I have only used MEGA for personal use and not pirated content download. I think MEGA being fully encrypted was their answer to them being targeted for hosting any illegal content (with MEGA, they were hosting encrypted files, which they don't have access to themselves because the encryption key remains with the client). Did it take off as the replacement for pirated content sharing because of it?

qalmakka 5y ago
I know as a fact that there's a lot of pirated content shared on MEGA online, but that's also true for Google Drive though.
ReaLNero 5y ago
I never really understood how MEGA is any better. Sure, personal files are encrypted, and thus it's hard to detect pirated files that I upload for myself. But a lot of piracy happens with publicly downloadable files, which MEGA can definitely decrypt and search for copyright violations. I'll be honest -- I've used both MEGA and Megaupload for piracy, and MEGA makes it easier.
- SXX 5y ago
  How can MEGA decrypt those "publicly shared" files to scan them? Do you think they should scan whole internet for such file links?
  - stjohnswarts 5y ago
    I think only a zealot or MPAA/RIAA lawyer is blinded enough to see that as an actual answer to your question :)
- jffry 5y ago
  > But a lot of piracy happens with publicly downloadable files, which MEGA can definitely decrypt and search for copyright violations How would MEGA do this, without crawling the web looking for links + keys? Which is certainly something they'd have no interest in doing. Naturally, I'm sure that third party "rights enforcement" companies might trawl for these links and look for infringing content and issue a takedown notice to MEGA, but there must be an ongoing arms race between people sharing links+keys and the bots crawling for them.

eminence32 5y ago

Interestingly, a large percentage of my incoming spam has a mega.nz reply-to/return-path. Does mega.nz allow anonymous emails, or are these just spoofed?

folmar 5y ago
I get spoofed ones.

phasersout 5y ago

It also has by far the most sophisticated settings for any cloud drive I've seen so far

kube-system 5y ago

I don’t understand why anyone would trust MEGA when there are other good storage options without the baggage.

antifa 5y ago
Back in the day, MEGA offered 50GB for free and the product was actually pretty good. Sad to see new users don't get that generous of an offer.