I feel MEGA is only interesting for a handful of warez groups. For most every-day users the 50 free GBs are enough.
I have this feeling too. But then again, there's no such a thing as a free lunch, so how are these 50GB going to be payed for? I suppose that, as for everything else "for free" on the web, it's going to be payed via advertising. But then again, if his advertisers use traditional payment vehicles, what's to stop the financial blockade?
If only Mega was large enough to convince some major web advertisers to start dealing in Bitcoin....
A working cloud storage facility with strong privacy options is very compelling to many. When I've made use of cloud storage in the capacity of a designer working for a corporate entity, I implemented my own encryption scheme which works like Mega because I felt it was not responsible as a business to do otherwise. It was highly tedious and costly (my wages as an engineer) to do so however.
If Mega expands their suite of offerings I doubt that they will have any difficulty attracting well paying customers who have the same legal concerns that I do. The key is to stay in business long enough to reach that point, and 3x10^6 users is a strong hand.
I say again that Mr. Dotcom seems to be about as highly a skilled player/fighter as I've seen. Even though I'm not a gamer I found it pretty impressive that he managed a top rating out of so many people...whether he cheated and intimidated or not... That alone should have been a clue to the MPAA and their subordinates in the government not to fuck with him. I only hope that he is very careful in his aviation related activities. Unfortunately I cannot tell him to ask Paul Wellstone why.
