One reason is that MegaUpload (and a few other download sites) blocks certain countries from downloading from it. The two countries I have personally experience

One reason is that MegaUpload (and a few other download sites) blocks certain countries from downloading from it. The two countries I have personally experienced blocking in are Egypt and Malaysia. In Egypt, the page always said that the number of download tickets for my country has been exceeded, no matter what time I tried to download at. In Malaysia, the site doesn’t load at all.