Megaupload shut down and owners charged
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there's another site like megaupload.com .. nice.. .. just sucks though, because in my forum's earlier life, almost all the members used "megaupload.com" to host their image sets... then when megaupload got hit, it was like a huge punch to the community gut and most just threw in towel.. 
. most lost all their stuff they had saved/collected which was hosted on megaupload.com... they didn't keep 'back ups' of any it... so after megaupload incident, alot are skeptical about hosting sites in general. still trying to "recover" from it.
. most lost all their stuff they had saved/collected which was hosted on megaupload.com... they didn't keep 'back ups' of any it... so after megaupload incident, alot are skeptical about hosting sites in general. still trying to "recover" from it.
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Yep, and I don't use them either, never have. Haha. If/when I need something "hosted", I use my own site via attachments...
But something similar to the megaupload incident / hosting sites.. is image hosts like imagevenue.com, imgbox.com or whatever other ones.. is that members upload tons of images to those image hosts, then after XX days those images or their galleries that aren't "clicked" / accessed... they're taken down off their servers too. (Then I have to run around the forum, fixing or removing "dead image hosted images from posts or remove threads and posts themselves lol.)Which is main reason why I try and encourage my members to use the attachment system. I spoke to Waindigo in PC, about maybe making a resource (like one I noticed for vB4) that imports images from image hosts, into attachment system as thumbnails / and full sized images so they're not "lost". He said "Would definitely be interested in this in combination with the Thread Thumbnails add-on."
Which would be awesome and useful for a forum like mine.
I still try and encourage my users to use the attachment system in general though. That way nothing is "lost", unless the forum went down haha. 
Digital Doctor
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still not working here.
Digital Doctor
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As for whether Mega would run into similar legal problems, Dotcom said that it was entirely different from Megaupload, all the way down to its core code. The site was built purely in HTML5 – some parts of which aren’t even in the official specification yet. Dotcom touts Mega as the first site in the world to use them. This is one of the reasons that Mega only supports Chrome right now – many of these new features in HTML5 aren’t supported by any browsers yet, but Chrome is ahead of the pack.
Building from the ground like this also has its benefits for server side security. Dotcom pointed out that “Mega doesn’t use any existing technology. The servers were built from the ground up so there is no way that they can be exploited because it’s our own technology.” Additionally, Kim said that “everyone involved in building the site has a background in information security” which meant a lot of care had gone into building security in from the start.
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To explain Megamovie requires an understanding of just how Megakey works. It’s been somewhat of a mystery until today, but Dotcom divulged everyone at the event this afternoon. We know that Megakey replaces advertising online through a piece of software that is installed on end users’ computers, but the specifics of it are a bit more complex. Dotcom says that Megakey only replaces “10% of all advertising” and will only target “the large players like Google and Yahoo. We can justify that by looking at how Google is linking to all content – it really wouldn’t even hurt them.”
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Building from the ground like this also has its benefits for server side security. Dotcom pointed out that “Mega doesn’t use any existing technology. The servers were built from the ground up so there is no way that they can be exploited because it’s our own technology.” Additionally, Kim said that “everyone involved in building the site has a background in information security” which meant a lot of care had gone into building security in from the start.
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To explain Megamovie requires an understanding of just how Megakey works. It’s been somewhat of a mystery until today, but Dotcom divulged everyone at the event this afternoon. We know that Megakey replaces advertising online through a piece of software that is installed on end users’ computers, but the specifics of it are a bit more complex. Dotcom says that Megakey only replaces “10% of all advertising” and will only target “the large players like Google and Yahoo. We can justify that by looking at how Google is linking to all content – it really wouldn’t even hurt them.”
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Adam Howard
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I'm proud of the direction Mega is going
Brandon Sheley
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stolen good for allI'm proud of the direction Mega is going
Adam Howard
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YESstolen good for all
/sarcasm
Seriously, there is no difference between Mega or Mega Upload than say for example Drop Box or Google Drive....
Actually there is 1 difference.... MegaUpload gave the MPAA, RIAA, and several large companies direct administrator access to delete things without having to wait for MegaUpload to do anything. And yet they still came after them.
Forsaken
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A lot of people used MegaUpload for actual legitimate reasons, as it was a really great file sharing site. The problems with such services are they're abused more than they're used legitimately.stolen good for all
Digital Doctor
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Worked for the first time for me just now.
I've started a thread to research MEGA.
- click the logo to see the File Manager, prices, etc.
