TOKON1 wrote:WOW!
Thank you for sharing! That is one of the most gracious gestures I have ever seen online!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
You're welcome. Very nice of you to mention it, though it's not as extremely gracious as you seem to think. I already had all the links, and it's costing me nothing, and usage via Milovana also costs me nothing except the brief time it takes to post the links in this thread.
Here's the technical discussion. I hope other people take advantage of what I am experimenting with at Mega.
1. Mega for free = 50 Gb
2. Get several Mega accounts for free
3. Internal Mega-to-Mega sharing is effective
4. Link all your free Mega accounts together!
mega-Mega
I have been using Mega
http://www.mega.nz/ as my repository for cock-hero type files for several months now, getting to know their system. One thing that became necessary, as my collection initially bloated well beyond Mega's storage offering, was that I had to create several free accounts at Mega. As the accounts themselves (not just the data) multiplied, it also became necessary that I figure out how to combine my various free accounts into one big sharing nexus. The restriction was, that Mega will only provide 50 Gb for free at any one free account, yet I've got about 200 Gb of files in my cock-hero-style collection and it's continuing to grow. Mega's inter-account intra-Mega sharing method, however, allows each of my (currently seven) free accounts to share with one another basically without limit. I therefore am able to set my situation up at Mega, such that I use one Mega account as my "main" access point, while putting most of the data into the other six accounts. This creates no serious detriment to ease of end-user access, so long as I keep all the associated emails and passwords carefully organized. I have a password-safe with which I do that anyway, so it's not a hassle at all. Therefore, because I know what the "main" Mega account's identity and password are (and you can figure out its email address too, it's practically public info, I haven't hidden it), I can quickly get at all the OTHER data and move it around, add to it, or delete some of it, as I see fit. Because Mega shares among Mega accounts, I can link all my Mega accounts into what is effectively one mega-Mega account.
(Get it? I said "mega-Mega" haha, get it?)
Thus, presently with seven linked free Mega accounts, I can hold up to 350 Gb at Mega without paying them a cent. What if they get wise to me? I bet they don't mind. I think Mega is not particularly averse to this seeming mis-use of their free-account generosity, since their underlying system is one of assuring maximal de-duplication anyway. Did that make any sense? Nevermind, then. Their system is, they don't copy files among Mega accounts; rather, they give to multiple accounts the right to access a centralized copy of the file. Therefore, I'm actually doing more to use Mega as it is designed, than may be most other users there. I usurp and/or exploit and/or utilize to fullest extent that which Mega allocates for free, by combining several accounts there into one big access point.
Only Minor Hassles
It's a little bit of extra work. You have to take care not to let one account delete the contents of another one unless you want it to, and things like that. You have to know who you are logged in as, and who you are controlling from the outside as a sharing partner rather than as a log-in owner. So, I've often been busy curating my Mega collection -- keeping passwords and separate email accounts straight, linking all accounts to one-another, double-checking that my file-naming conventions and so forth all remain consistent, etc.. This curating is something I would have done in the first place, with or without intent to share at Milovana.
A natural side-effect of curating my Mega collection, is the ease with which I can share it here. I had to give to myself all the linkages and sharing rights which would connect my Mega accounts together into one locus of access; therefore I had to fetch the links; therefore it was easy to give the rest of the Milovana community those links.
Torrents on Steroids...
This is a long round-about way of saying,
MEGA LETS YOU LINK SEVERAL FREE ACCOUNTS TOGETHER rather easily. I suggest everyone start setting up several free Mega accounts and linking them to one another by Mega's internal sharing system. I further suggest, as a natural offshoot of my first suggestion, that we can use Mega's generosity in this regard, to set up things like what I've provided here in this thread. Share with yourself, share with others.
I intend to keep providing links as the collection grows. There may be some time in the future (when I'm sitting at home with the flu or something) during which I may attempt to maximize the collection into an exhaustive repository of "all" existing cock-hero files (defined subjectively as I see fit, of course). It's a longer-term plan. As long as I don't run afoul of some Mega insistence or requirement, I think this plan can't be anything but a benefit to the internet sharing community.
It's like torrents on steroids.
My collection is presently my starting place; a good list is needed, of what's missing, and I'm going to have to take time off of this project now and again because, ya know, I have a real life too. But it's kinda fun, it's kinda soothing to my obsessive-compulsive need to curate and categorize and organize, and it's something I would mostly be doing in the first place anyway, so it's no skin off my back.
The Ups and Downs
Plenty of advantages. There are the obvious ones like extra free storage space, anonymous internet sharing, and instantaneous intra-Mega transfers. There are less apparent ones, too. First, downloads are rapid. Downloading for use from Mega cloud to home hard-drive is the fastest download I have experienced on the internet, as long as I'm using either the Mega desktop synchronizer app, or I'm using the Mega browser add-on for Firefox. These consistently give me about 1.2 Mb per second. This speed is possible with alternatives like (for example) torrents and traditional web-based downloads, so it's roughly my present top-cap for speed of incoming data, as mediated solely by the level of service I've bought from my Internet Service Provider. But with Mega, it's not only POSSIBLE to get this speed, it's CONSISTENT and PERPETUAL. I've never really seen it dip below 1.1 Mb/s once the DL gets going. For that which must remain on cloud storage rather than on home storage, that's an awesome advantage.
Another excellent advantage, perhaps less apparent, is the collection's autonomy. I can abandon my collection for a period but you can still get at it. To the contrary, sharing of a file via torrent requires that the owner remain connected to the internet. Or, at least, torrents require that the file's owner's COMPUTER remain connected to the internet.
Viz. recently a creator failed to share the 5-Gb version of his new cock-hero file. When he left the torrent, the torrent died at 27%. It cannot be resurrected without him logging in, running a torrent client, and then staying on-line long enough for all the remaining data in that file to upload from his computer to at least one stranger's computer; furthermore, if the wrong stranger departs midway through the process, even an adequate replacement stranger must re-start at 27% to climb to 100% (unless between the two strangers the remarkably unlikely luck has struck, that each one's download complements the other one's exactly such that all points of data in the whole file have been successfully downloaded, part to each), no matter how long the creator has been on-line. By this analogy, you can see, that a torrent requires TWO participants in long-term internet access, whereas Mega requires ZERO present-time live internet access and uses ZERO bandwidth. Torrents demand connection state. Mega makes no demands and leaves the owner free of connection requirements.
I really like this because of my work situation. I am often using my one personal computer, a lap-top, for work purposes. I don't want my workplace ISP to be recording the fact that I'm using Deluge to get porn, duh. (For the same reason, usually there aren't many dirty pictures resident on my hard drive. They reside on a cloud as their permanent home.) Because I have chosen to set up my sharing via a cloud service such as Mega, I can log out entirely, shut down, leave the computer in my briefcase, travel to Bermuda, transfer quite literally zero bits of data to up- and down-linkage, yet still give out megabytes to my homies. Not connected, still sharing, thank you Mega. And if I don't want to go to Bermuda, I can stay at home and download "Cheech and Chong" just as efficiently as ever while still sharing, since NO home-access bandwidth is being used AT ALL by Mega.
There are of course disadvantages, too. The biggest risk is that Mega deteriorates. That's possible (maybe even likely) in the future. I don't mind. It's just porn. It's not like I have to keep it perfect. If I lose ALL of that stuff tomorrow, I don't think I'd die, or even get an ulcer. I'd just download something new and delectable and start again. And any storage system can experience the same problems. If you choose to use the cloud, you're at the mercy of the reliability of the cloud provider. But if you choose to avoid the cloud, you're at the mercy of your own data care and maintenance, and the instant you screw up you regret that you didn't back it all up to the cloud. Mega's no different from any other on-line service in that regard. Another problem would be the access points -- what if I lose rights to one email or another? What if I can't get into Mega? Well, sure, these suck. But, again, they're just risks associated with any computer use in the first place. What if I lose my fingers and can't operate a mouse or keyboard ever again, you might as well ask. I'd be more worried about how I'd fap than how I'd share, ya know. I can't really come up with any disadvantages to my current Mega arrangement that are intrinsic to, or endemic to, Mega itself (and I don't know what the difference between "intrinsic" and "endemic" would be in this context anyway). If you like the cloud, then Mega has the cloud's advantages. If you don't like the cloud, or if you worry that it will go away because some oddball investor from Myanmar decides to abscond with the military junta, then don't use Box or DropBox or OneDrive or Google services either, right?
Jeez, shut up already!
Well, anyway, glad you appreciate it. Really (and despite the length of this post) it's not that much extra effort. I already had the set-up, because I had to give each of my Mega accounts access to all my other Mega accounts in the first place, so why not give access to you too?
Finally, I heartily suggest we all look into such type of sharing. Cloud-sharing is the future, torrents are just
SO 2015 now.
