Mega, the new MegaUpload, to launch on January 19

<i>In the past, securely storing and transferring confidential information required the installation of dedicated software. The new Mega encrypts and decrypts your data transparently in your browser, on the fly. You hold the keys to what you store in the cloud, not us.</i><p>It seems a good idea to me, maybe because I thought of it before :-) I'm not sure how well they will monetize it. I've read that economies come from detecting duplicates and archiving contents just once. But from the customer POV, that would be a strong feature.

"Before, we operated only a handful of storage nodes located in expensive premium data centers. Now, thanks to encryption, we can connect a large number of hosting partners around the world without worrying about privacy breaches."<p>Was privacy really ever their main concern ?

What's new about this exactly? This was posted a few months back.<p>Ps. You can access it here too, <a href="http://mega.co.nz/" rel="nofollow">http://mega.co.nz/</a><p>Their me.ga domain was taken away from them.

The whole Mega.com is in-your-face thing Kim is doing with authorities.<p>The real bone with megaupload was, authorities held megaupload responsible for what it hosted - and Megaupload could not deny what they had on their servers (copyrighted stuff) - so the responsibility and liability lied with megaupload and caused its downfall.<p>With mega.com - the game is, mega.com will claim we don't know what is on our servers (since its encrypted at browser) so we can't be held liable for it - and this will stick!<p>I read somewhere comment that - its doesn't matter how strong the encryption is for mega.com users - all mega.com need it as a shield from legal troubles.<p>Clever!

This is exciting. Kim also tweeted that each user gets 50GB of storage for free.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/291936750580953088" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/291936750580953088</a>

&#62;"Powered by Instra"<p>What does Instra provide exactly ? I used them for domains but I don't really know if they also provide some good hosting infrastructure.

Does anyone care to speculate on how payments will be processed? Payment networks seem to be the weak link...

Bit annoying that that button resizes...

False start, <a href="http://mega.co.nz/" rel="nofollow">http://mega.co.nz/</a> will launch on January 19.

Now this is how you do a "Mega launch". From the man who "can't do small".