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How are his products illegal? It's not like Skydrive and Google Drive are devoid of pirated content. Also Megaupload was a very valuable service back in the day

• rplnt 14y ago
  Megaupload was selling access to content, not ability to store data. The users who downloaded data were the ones that had to pay. Only way this type of service is profitable is when it has "stuff" that is wanted by masses of people. And since Megaupload didn't produce/resell anything, illegal content is the only other option. Also, during the time megauplaod existed, there always were upload providers. Megaupload came quite late into the game.
  • af3 14y ago
    > Megaupload was selling access to content Google and Co is also selling... your content whenever is legal or not
    • alexqgb 14y ago
      Can you go to google.com/somethingyouwantforfree and just download it? No, no you can't. There is a wildly obvious difference here and unless you're being deliberately dishonest, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to see it.
      • beambot 14y ago
        Dropbox public folders?
        • alexqgb 14y ago
          If they're of any appreciable size, they're paid for by the people hosting, not downloading. You do know this, right?
          • beambot 14y ago
            Of course.... but who pays (and for what, exactly) is somewhat immaterial. You're able to post public links to files and get (effectively) unlimited downloads via Dropbox too. It was a counter-example to your Google.com/yourdesiredfile
            • alexqgb 14y ago
              Who pays (and why) is hardly immaterial when it has a defining effect on how the site is actually used. There's a good reason as to why Google and Dropbox can easily claim legitimacy while Mega has to struggle.