Hello!
My name is Jane and I would like to bid you welcome on behalf of our strong-yet-ambitious file sharing (or as some might say, file locker) service, Megareload.
We're rather old-school and conservative for the most part (we even have a very classic uploader incentive payout system), so our user account types and benefits are pretty straightforward.
However, we as a service have goals that go slightly beyond those of just file sharing:
We seek to provide our users with high-privacy, high-security file sharing.
Our service aims to be Secure, Conscientious and Palatial, as our founder would have put it.
In order to ensure a conscientious relationship with users and a high-security, high-privacy environment, we have combined user-side encryption (popularized by Kim Dotcom, who was a major inspiration for our dear founder Mr. Halls), uploader payouts, and the strongly pseudonymous Bitcoin payment medium, as well as take the "Corporate Seppuku" pledge (see below).
All user files are encrypted on the user side via an applet (we aren't considering javascript crypto due to it being considered very questionable from a cryptographic standpoint) and thus no party can gain any knowledge about the file being stored (unless the party has the password for the file)
We also have, as mentioned above, an Uploader Incentive Program which rewards people for uploading popular files.
Do note that only files that can be legally shared in accordance to laws of Sweden, Netherlands and Saint Kitts and Nevis are eligible for UIP.
However, do also note that in order for a file to be judged illegal the complaint about that file must contain the decryption passphrase, since the passphrase is required to decrypt the file and determine whether allegations of illegal content are accurate)
Our uploader incentive program is as follows:
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Each download from Eligible Countries results in a single Reward Token being awarded to your account.
Reward Tokens can be exchanged for various prizes, including Premium Accounts and money payouts
(made via Bitcoin cryptocurrency). Expect more prize types to become available as time goes by.
tokens
The prize/Reward Tokens conversion rates are as follows:
15 000 Reward Tokens One month of Premium Account status
75 000 Reward Tokens Half Year of Premium Account status
150 000 Reward Tokens Half Year of Premium Account status plus money payout equal to 100$ (Paid in Bitcoin)
750 000 Reward Tokens Lifetime Platinum Account plus money payout equal to 500$ (Paid in Bitcoin).
This prize can be acquired only once (all later 750 000 Reward Token prizes are simple money payouts of 650 $, paid in Bitcoin)
1 500 000 Reward Tokens 1500$ (Paid in Bitcoin)
7 500 000 Reward Tokens 10 000$ (Paid in Bitcoin)
Eligible Countries: United States, Australia, Germany , United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, France, Spain , Bulgaria, Russia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, Finland, Romania.
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Our current plans include:
1) making open-source (this is mandatory per our security standards) plugins for browsers, since it is actually gold standard of security and sureity for in-browser cryptographic applications (Cryptocat, the trendsetter and perhaps most renowned cryptographic browser app, has adopted this approach)
2) increasing number of prizes
We're also considering a more complex "affilate program"
Our Pledge:
In order to give our users the highest possible privacy assurance, we have decided become the first file sharing site to take the "Corporate Seppuku" pledge. In the words of Cryptocloud, the creators of "Corporate Seppuku" concept, In the context of privacy issues, "corporate seppuku" means shutting down a company rather than agreeing to become an extension of the massive, ever-expanding, secretive global surveillance network organized by the U.S. National Security Agency. It means, in short, saying "no." Sometimes, we hear people say that this or that company "had no choice" in what they did. Bullshit. There's always a choice; it's just that the consequences of certain options might be really severe, and are thus not chosen. But that's a choice. It's always a choice.
Our pledge to our users is thus as follows:
Megareload "Corporate Seppuku" pledge:
Our pledge to our users is simple and straightforward.
User privacy is our primary value, and we will rather suffer monetary loss and end our service than compromise their privacy by cooperating with various secret orders and/or participating in any state-driven real-time surveiliance program that might target them.
We shall only comply with a subpoena that is legal in the jurisdiction of Sweden, Netherlands and Saint Kitts and Nevis, and only to the extent physically possible within the boundaries of our retention policy as outlined in the FAQ.
Should we ever face legal or non-legal pressure to cooperate with a secret surveiliance scheme, including but not limited to a scheme that involves us mounting a surveiliance effort against a specific user, we shall terminate our service immediately, and face both monetary and non-monetary consequences.
We respect the laws of Sweden, Netherlands and Saint Kitts and Nevis, and will comply with official court subpoenas that are valid in accordance to these laws.
We despise subterfuge, surveiliance states and big-brother afficionados, and will maintain this stance to the bitter end.
You can learn more about us, our system and our retention policy in our FAQ
You can learn more about Bitcoin at bitcoin.org and wikipedia (by the way, we recommend the Multibit bitcoin client, as it is cross-platform and is far more friendly than the "native" application while still being reasonably secure)
In case you face technical difficulties, please post in this thread and/or email to
@ megareload.se We will respond ASAP