Hello dear Wjunction community!
I am here to represent Megareload, a small-yet-ambitious file sharing (or as some might say, file locker) service.
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.
One could say that while we do provide file storage, our main passion is file sharing.
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.
So we're also passionate about security and privacy of our users.
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, because we have crypted uploads, the complaint about a given 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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Files sized between 5 MB and 500 MB are accepted.
- A single download of a file sized between 350 and 500 MB yields 0.65 tokens
- A single download of a file sized between 250 and 350 MB yields 0.85 tokens
- A single download of a file sized between 5 MB and 250 MB yields 1 token
There are also country-based multipliers. Country multipliers operate in the following manner:
Tier 1 countries have a multiplier of 1
(the token count gained from a single download of a given file by a user from Tier 1 country is multiplied by 1)
Tier 2 countries have a multiplier of 0.76
(the token count gained from a single download of a given file by a user from Tier 2 country is multiplied by 0.76)
Tier 3 countries have a multiplier of 0.46
(the token count gained from a single download of a given file by a user from Tier 3 country is multiplied by 0.46)
Tier 4 countries have a multiplier of 0.07
(the token count gained from a single download of a given file by a user from Tier 4 country is multiplied by 0.07)
Country tier breakdown:
Tier 1 countries:
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia.
Tier 2 countries:
Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Belgium
Tier 3 countries:
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, South Africa, Slovenia, Slovakia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Romania, Qatar, Oman, Malaysia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Latvia, Kuwait, Japan, Hungary, Greece, Estonia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Brazil, Austria
Tier 4 countries:
The rest of the world
Tokens can be exchanged for various prizes, including money payouts (made via Bitcoin cryptocurrency).
Expect more prize types to become available as time goes by.
The prize/token conversion rate:
- 1 000 Reward Tokens = money payout equal to 10$ (Paid in Bitcoin)
- 10 000 Reward Tokens = Half Year of Premium Account status plus money payout equal to 100$ (Paid in Bitcoin)
- 100 000 Reward Tokens = Year of Premium Account status plus money payout equal to 1000$ (Paid in Bitcoin), special Megareload Champion club membership giving access to limited availability offers, lotteries and campaigns
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) Writing a step-by-step instruction for leveraging user side file encryption to make file sharing more secure and increase file popularity and longevity.
3) A profit calculator so that users can estimate how many tokens they will be getting based on their assumptions about their file popularity and country proportions among downloaders
4) Increasing number of prizes
5) Creating a pay-per-signup referral program in addition to our UIP
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
We will respond ASAP
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