Quote from: tvbcof on January 20, 2013, 05:50:06 AM

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After many time-outs, I got on enough to get a test account. After many time-outs on the e-mailed link, I got signed in. Now I'm playing with it a bit, but my test upload has not gone through. Understandable if this really is the most successful 'start-up' of all time, and I would not rule it out.
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Update on Mega: Tonight, from my satellite connection (and BSD box with chrome built from source) I got logged in after about 1/2 and hour. This time I managed to get a 44 byte file uploaded. Took about a minute at 1 byte per second. So, it's 'working'. Sorta.

If this thing:

- starts to work better after the initial teething and sizing problems
- proves secure on competent analysis
- python or C API's are forthcoming (filesystem mounts that work) so I can shit-can the browser
- nothing demonstratable better (in philosophical terms) comes around

I imagine I'll be mostly ditching my current user-level cloud solution and switching to it. I may even pay, but it would be mostly as a token of my appreciation since I can hardly imagine needing the capacity in my use-case. If I can use BTC for payment or donation, all the better.

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If Dotcom really did have a paradigm shift after being spied on (in addition to the other obscene abuse) and shifts some focus away from video games and cars and toward humanitarian efforts I might develop a man-crush on the guy. This whole thing reminds me a bit of Larry Flynt getting sued and shot. He kept on making porn, but also put a lot of money and effort into making society a generally better place by standing up for our (the US's) first amendment rights...and fingering the hypocrites in our political circles.