Select files from Mega now indexed on third-party site
Looking to share some files with the general public? Whether those files are of the legal or illegal kind, a website has cropped up to index files on Kim Dotcom's brand new cloud-storage site. Mega.co.nz, meet Mega-search.me.
When Kim Dotcom's “Mega” site launched January 20, 2013—one year to-the-day after the FBI shut down his Megaupload file locker on accusations of copyright infringement and wire fraud—the ostentatious file-sharing guru promised 50GB of free, encrypted storage to users. In a pre-launch interview Dotcom told Ars, “This startup is probably the most scrutinized by lawyers in the history of tech startups.” Hopefully that scrutiny will hold up, because Mega-search is revealing a few things copyrights holders may not be too happy with.
This new site, Mega-search.me, offers users a way to post links to files with the decryption key in the URL. Clicking on the link takes you to Mega, where users can download the file to their computers or their Mega accounts. The third-party service can't automatically index links from Mega, but instead relies entirely on users to crowdsource their goods. (Hat tip to Ars reader ghub005 for the heads up.)
