Internet maven and MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom’s next cloud storage service, Mega, launches this weekend. Mr. Dotcom (his professional name) surprised and delighted Internet nerds when he announced via Twitter that Mega users that opt for free accounts will get 50GB of storage. Compared to what most competitors offer at the free level, this is up to ten times more.
Megaupload was shut down after legal troubles with the United States Department of Justice. With Mega, Dotcom appears to be taking an aggressive approach that’s still mindful of possible legal issues. On paper, it looks like it should be smooth sailing, but there are some Internet users that are wary of trusting Dotcom after getting shut out of their MegaUpload accounts. That said, there appear to be more supporters of what Dotcom is trying to do with Mega. Some have portrayed him as the Robin Hood of cloud storage. (Rumor has it that he has the hat and everything.)
Personally, I’m anxious to get a Mega account and don’t foresee any issues with the service. While I’m satisfied with my 10GB on Dropbox and surprisingly thrilled with my 25GB on SkyDrive, an additional 50GB of cloud storage couldn’t hurt. I love how quickly cloud storage is progressing and I’m grateful for people like Kim Dotcom that are aggressively pushing things forward. It’s awesome that I’m now at the point where my cloud backups have backups that have backups. Data redundancy rules.
How about you guys and gals? Are you excited for Mega? Will you be signing up for an account this weekend?
I’m there if it gets the rpad seal of approval
I’ll try it out but won’t store anything important on it. Also needs an ios app for it to try and become my defacto storage in the cloud.
Mobile apps are in the works, as well as office collaboration tools and chat.
Oh nice.
Do you have to trade keys to send a file or can you have a shared folder? If you have to trade a key then this is more of a hassle than it is worth to share files.
It says that you can invite Mega users to a shared folder through the web UI. The instructions aren’t clear, but it looks like you only have to manually trade keys if you use a public link.