Advantages and Disadvantages of Mega -dot- NZ ?

[book_guy]

Who likes Mega? Join discussion if you have thoughts on Mega. My two bits: I am quickly becoming a Mega.nz addict. I wonder if others would like to start sharing some cock-hero videos, or information about where to get free links to cock-hero videos via Mega.nz. It's so DANGED EASY!

[lestrian]

I get a bit annoyed that I can't use it in private mode, and if I try to download a huge file (3 GB+) then the download always fails. It's definitely preferable to all other free web hosts. It's too bad empornium's registrations are closed so that not everyone can have an account there. Things always stay seeded, it's easy to keep a good ratio, and downloads are always fast.

[book_guy]

I haven't ever had that problem with Mega. I just click whatever I want to download and it works. Maybe that's because, by "download," what I mean is, "download FROM MY MEGA ACCOUNT CLOUD STORAGE to my hard drive." If you're trying to download-direct from someone else's Mega account link, I can see that it might not work as well.

I don't have a huge problem with Empornium either. I'm active there, my ratio is generally good, etc. etc.. But I do find that some of the older torrents are simply not adequately seeded. And I find that ANY form of torrenting is slow, for me. I will get somewhere around 900 or 750 Kb/s for download from a good torrent; maybe 1.2 Mb/s if it's a brand-new Empronium freeleech; or even as slow as 25 Kb/s. But from Mega I ALWAYS get 1.6 Mb/s download, no matter the age or status of the file. Reliable speed.

I wonder what the issue with the broken DL links at Mega is. If we could fix that, it might tip the balance.

[alchemi183]

This has come up a few times. I like it. I have a fast internet service. I can download a well seeded torrent very quickly, but Mega is a bit faster. I love that they don't throttle download speeds, even for non-account users.

Some people have trouble with it because it wants them to download a plugin. However, if you use Chrome, you don't need a plugin.

[Nezhul]

I'm okay with it. I have 100mbps internet, so it doesn't matter which size does the file have.

I still prefer torrents, just because their lifespan is pretty much infinite.

[servufon]

just because it was asked, i find the interface clunky/littered, the addition of the "my cloud" versus just getting files centrally an unnecessary complexity (especially as the only way i can get mega to work is to put any given download to my cloud and THEN download it from there), the way it doesn't just let your browser/client take over the downloading (that unnecessary UI in "my cloud"), and it's flakeyness in general annoying

hate it, only use it when no alternative

[hosenguy]

I find Mega a suitable site to download from.

It has a few quirks like the need for Chrome. This is offset by the fact that most of us can access it unlike a certain members only site that does not accept new members (Empor...... you know).

It also is not loaded with junk like the streaming sites.

"The life of torrents is limitless" was stated a couple messages back, well someone should seed The Wix then. There are a lot of torrents that don't die they just don't have seeders available.

I guess there is not a good solution unless the files remain active.

The more sources that have the files the better for me.
Course this brings up another question, how many CH vedios do I really need, anyway?

[supermokkori]

The disadvantages of MEGA are very few when it comes to filehosting services. As someone familiar with filehosting services since the early days of Rapidshare (RIP), I think the only danger for MEGA is longevity - filehosting seems to be in an ever-changning state of flux where filehosters change names, policies, get bought out, go out of business and so on. MEGA itself is only 2+ years old (after its former version, Megaupload, got shut down) so while it's fairly solid now, that can quickly change in a few months or so.

While torrents certainly have much more longevity, I think many of us share the same problem that we aren't active members of Emporium. But that's relatively a minor problem since usually public torrents usually become available a day or so after.

Just one quick tidbit: I've recently been using a filehosting service called Ezfile.ch (which was formerly Filecloud, which was former iFile). It's fairly solid and free to use - so long as people are downloading a file, the file itself will stay live for at least 30 days. I'll probably use it in the future in conjunction with MEGA.

[zingg]

In terms of reliability, speed, ease of use, and general nonscuzziness, Mega leads the pack by a mile. The inclusion of encryption is a nice bonus, though recent comments by Kim Dotcom regarding the status of Mega make me wonder if it's actually still secure. Certainly seems reasonable enough for CH distribution though; if you're concerned, VPN to upload/download.

[redno]

In terms of reliability, speed, ease of use, and general nonscuzziness, Mega leads the pack by a mile. The inclusion of encryption is a nice bonus, though recent comments by Kim Dotcom regarding the status of Mega make me wonder if it's actually still secure. Certainly seems reasonable enough for CH distribution though; if you're concerned, VPN to upload/download.

Yep same thoughts, I'm eagerly waiting for the new thing he's gonna launch though, seems pretty big !

[book_guy]

I've just now hit an example of WHY I like file-sharing via a cloud-service such as Mega:

SLOW TORRENTS.

I'm presently trying to get clean copies of the following five cock-hero files ... Perfect Girls, Point of View 2, Next, Infinite Desire (1), and Nduro. I should already have them in a collection somewhere, but somehow my copies got glitches, so I need to retrieve them all again somehow. How to do it? They don't seem to be available on any cloud-based file-sharing service or as direct-downloads from any server, so DL either by public torrent or by private torrent are my only two choices. As far as private torrents go, I do have access to Empornium, and some of these do appear there, but none as free-leeches; therefore any Emp download would cost against my Emp ratio. So, I've chosen to get a public torrent of these five cock-hero videos. I've scoured Milovana threads for public torrent files and Deluge is working away at them. Here are the current ETAs, retyped from the Deluge user-interface:

Perfect Girls --- 3 hours, 27 minutes
POV 2 --- 2 days, 13 hours
Next --- 1 day, 16 hours
Infinite Desire --- 7 hours, 38 minutes
Nduro --- (stalled at 30.98%, estimated time of arrival is infinite)

The "fastest" one is coming in at 98 Kb/s. No, I am not experiencing throttling from my ISP. No, I do not have firewall or anti-virus problems. No, I am not using one or another of the "wrong" ports for bit-torrent protocols. No, I do not have the settings in Deluge chosen in such a way as to maximize delay. No, I am not (as best I know) able to improve these speeds.

I must just ... WAIT ... for some stranger with a faster internet connection to happen to put a copy of the desired files up on his torrenting client as an upload. What incentive does he have, what REASON could he have, for digging through his old files in order to re-share stuff that he already didn't have to share in the first place?

Humph. I want 'em on Mega. I understand the theories behind torrenting, but they aren't working out in practice for me.

[book_guy]

At the risk of talking only to myself in my own solo conversation, I add the following.

Founder claims Mega.NZ has been taken over by outside Chinese investor.

Mega is a New Zealand-based company that was set up by the German-born entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in 2013, who has recently publically claimed that Mega has been subject to a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor: Bill Liu. Dotcom says he doesn't think Mega customer data is secure any more - ironic as security was the primary reason he decided to set up the site in the first place.

So while the 50GB of free storage may seem tempting, we can't recommend you open an account unless you don't care about the security or privacy of your files. Kim Dotcom has already said he plans to launch a third version of Mega soon.

--- from http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/ ... 5-3614269/

It's worth noting that I didn't (yet) find independent confirmation of Mister Dotcom's claim (which, you may have noticed, would be suspiciously in his own best interests should he set up a competitor soon). By now almost all of my cock-hero videos are uploaded onto Mega as my preferred method of porn-storage and it's too dang late to move the entire 150-odd GB collection. My "real" files, from work and my actual private life, are going to remain nowhere NEAR Mega. So if the Chinese want to snoop, all they'll find will be good whack-off material.

[book_guy]

New developments at a month (almost) later ... just posted the following on another thread ...

Sorry for the delay, didn't realize Mega doesn't allow link creation unless you log in =/

Mega has become a mess, lately.

Because I've been a rather more positive supporter of Mega here at Milovana, I thought I'd just chime in on the subject. Their encryption-machine (or "engine" or whatever you call it) has been causing hang-ups for many users in a variety of locations, and has been doing that for about three weeks now. I am not certain of all the details, but the upshot seems to be, that certain computer set-ups which would generally be MORE suspicious of unwanted intrusion, turn out also to be LESS capable of meshing well with Mega. In other words, if you look after your own security carefully, then Mega can't look after your security FOR you. Which may indicate any of a number of problems, from (1) foreign governments snooping while doing a bad job of staying hidden, to (2) local governments interfering and doing a bad job of staying hidden, to (3) your own paranoia interfering with Mega's programming, to (4) Mega's ineptitude interfering with your own common sensical precautions, to (5) the sale of Mega from Mr. Kim Dotcom to outside (mostly mainland-Chinese) investors has indeed created some problems, and perhaps has breached some security, as he claimed would happen, to (6) you make up your own nightmare scenario, to (7) you make up your own conspiracy theory, to (8) you make up your own minor computer-programming conflict occasioned by something as innocuous as an intervening Windows update!

Previous to these troubles, I would have recommended Mega above all other cloud-storage providers, for the Milovana-specific use of storing and sharing Milovana-style videos, particularly in the Cock Hero genre. Now I can't be so positive. They're UNPREDICTABLY inaccessible or unreliable, off and on, and the specific reasons why aren't very clear to me. The lack of regularity is one extremely bad sign; the lack of explanation is probably the worst sign.

I still use Mega for whatever is already up there, and I'm consolidating most of my Milovana-sourced funstuff onto it. But I have eliminated anything "important" from my Mega account(s).

Now that I've communicated the above, I feel I've done my part. I used to be a gung-ho Mega supporter; I am no longer ...

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