The launch of Mega on Saturday (Sunday New Zealand local time) has generated a myriad of opinions, some in favour but many others disagree. As you said in the news of his release, does not add much to what we already know in respect of Cyberlockers. The good thing about the service are its 50 Gb capacity, albeit with an exaggerated security, which has been said is poorly implemented.


We will not now discuss the morality of Kim Dotcom, which to this day has not given a penny for Megaupload premium accounts, since in defense of Dotcom can say that it is impossible to know by name who have paid premium accounts and who has used free accounts. We will analyze if Mega worth or not by the user and if he had felt so much expectation raised by the service.

Clear that 50 Gb capacity is a significant figure for a free account. But come on, if you lose the password, you lose everything, because there is no way to recover it. The security imposed in Mega is so high that we will not even have that possibility. Although one of the co-founders of Mega has announced they are studying to be able to retrieve or change passwords in the future, yet nothing is assured. In addition, according to the latest views of security experts, none of them is recommended to use Mega for storing confidential documents.

But most disturbing arrives when reading the terms of use of the service, where the user is the only one who lost to loss of data, failure of service or legal in each account interventions, since Mega is not responsible for anything. I.e., Mega seems to be made for people safety, but not the user's, but that of Dotcom and company. Mega is a millionaire income to Dotcom, who shall not be liable for any loss of data or the guilt of piracy of the user, and which will be legally covered if dropped a complaint about any file stored there.

Meanwhile, Mega could be defined as a service in which may store files of little importance (Dotcom promises until an integrated Office suite), some pictures and little else. Do not trust mega, Mega is Megaupload where at least things were already a little more transparent than the fate of the service was the same fate that the user ran, as it has been seen with its closure. When Dotcom went to prison, many users have lost files. With Mega, if you lose files or there is a legal problem, Dotcom is not responsible for anything and remains untouchable for justice.