MEGA’s current end-user experience.
24 hours into what’s turning out to be one of the biggest startup launches in history, Kim Dotcom’s MEGA site is struggling under an unprecedented load.
Now topping 1 million registered souls, the soup-to-nuts encrypted storage cloud is still incapable of providing service to most of its users.
MEGA’s primary host, Cogent’s German operation, is scaling services to try and keep up with demand, but most visitors are stuck staring at the puffy, insubstantial cumulus loading gif.
If you’re lucky enough to make it this far, you’ll find the interface to be simple but functional, and very polished for a launch product.
Given Dotcom’s history with the film industry’s hired goons, it remains to be seen if his new service will face any real legal challenges. Billed as a direct, secure competitor to the likes of Dropbox, iCloud and SkyDrive, MEGA is lawyered-up and swears it’s walking the straight and narrow.
Will Kim Dotcom dodge the legal bullets and prove himself a true rainmaker?
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