A year ago, the Megavideo and Megaupload sites were closed for piracy and their owner, named Kim Schmitz and better known as Kim DotCom, was arrested by the FBI on very serious charges and treated as a terrorist. Exactly one year after that day, Kim Dotcom, meanwhile released, returns and launches its new site, Mega.co.nz, which can be considered the new Megaupload, where everyone can now archive files of all kinds to share them or to keep them online safely .
From today it is therefore possible to subscribe to Mega Cloud for free to get 50 GB of free online space that can be used to upload data from your computer.
Mega Cloud is nothing but a cloud storage similar to Dropbox or, better, to Mediafire or other file sharing sites to share files.
Mega offers three paid account options called Pro I, II and III, which differ from each other in the price, bandwidth and storage space available.
Mega subscriptions are:
Pro I costs $ 10 a month or $ 100 a year and gives users access to 500 Gigabytes of memory and 1 Terabyte of traffic.
Pro II costs $ 20 a month (or an annual $ 200 subscription) with 2000 Gigabytes of memory and 4 Terabytes of traffic
Pro III costs $ 30 a month ($ 300 yearly option) for 4000 Gigabytes of memory and 8 TB of traffic.
The free account allows you to upload data up to 50 GB but will have the great problem of a very limited internet bandwidth (remember the expectations of Megaupload "> Instra who collaborates in the setting up of Mega Cloud, companies and individuals throughout the world will have access to the fastest and most powerful solution (Megaupload was the fastest so this is to be believed) of cloud storage, the most secure, 100% encrypted.
For example, a single Mega rack has more network bandwidth than New Zealand.
Mega Cloud Storage will be useful for synchronizing and sharing files securely from anywhere, with ultra-fast data transfer times.
Mega automatically encodes and decodes the data in a visible way in the browser allows you to exchange confidential documents without risks that they may end up in external hands.
To upload files to Mega you will need to install the Mega-Sync client program on your computer.
50GB of space is a huge amount for an online storage service, especially when compared to Dropbox (2GB), Google Drive (5GB) and Onedrive (7GB).
However, it remains to be seen whether Mega will be better than what is today the most used and largest file hosting in the world, Mediafire with 50 GB of free online space, Windows clients and Android apps which, moreover, does not even have bandwidth limits.
The big question everyone will ask now is whether to trust Kim DotCom's new project.
No doubt that Mega.co.nz will be the fastest and safest cloud storage of all but you cannot be sure that it will not be closed one day for the same reasons that saw Megaupload and Megavideo finish.
At the very least, in order not to risk data loss, it would be recommended to use Mega for less important data or of which you have a copy elsewhere.
To get started, go to the new Mega.nz site.
Immediately you can upload a file anonymously or you can register by registering a free account with name, email and password that gives you the opportunity to take advantage of 50 gigs of space.
Megachat has also been activated on the Mega.nz website, for voice and video calls via the web .
