Heads up about MEGA; They may be updating their TOS in such a way that all download links tied to them may be removed, back up your content!

[Axcell_the_horny_imp]

Under MEGA's "You may not section" it states:
17.8.6 You may not: store, use, download, upload, share, access, transmit, or otherwise make available, unsuitable, offensive, obscene or discriminatory information of any kind.

17.8.12 : attempt to gain unauthorised access to any services which you have not been given express permission to access

MEGA may end up taking things down that have been up since the sites inception.

I advise all staff, users, and uploaders to back up their content immediately.

 

[Penumbral Evanescence]

Under MEGA's "You may not section" it states:
17.8.6 You may not: store, use, download, upload, share, access, transmit, or otherwise make available, unsuitable, offensive, obscene or discriminatory information of any kind.

17.8.12 : attempt to gain unauthorised access to any services which you have not been given express permission to access

MEGA may end up taking things down that have been up since the sites inception.

I advise all staff, users, and uploaders to back up their content immediately.

Thanks for the update.



Albeit, MEGA is still, by all intents and purposes an approved file host on F95. I have seen issues with MEGA in the past with restricting file size downloads and needing to create an account given the file size download restrictions being imposed on a day-to-day basis.

In addition,

You must be registered to see the links

is (arguably) a lot more stringent in comparison with some of the other approved file hosts (at least from what I have seen in my experience).

So, these updates to their TOS (while annoying), can't say that I did not see this one coming. MEGA have been kinda anal about this for some time now unfortunately.

 

[whowhawhy]

these aren't new terms...

You must be registered to see the links

f95zone is already losing mega accounts to dmcas

 

[Axcell_the_horny_imp]

these aren't new terms...

You must be registered to see the links

f95zone is already losing mega accounts to dmcas

It is likely any change, is a means to combat both pornography, hentai, and piracy. And have probably slowly updated them to be even more stringent since this link was posted. I noticed one of my personal files I never published, an archive of XI's games, was recently put under threat, inside the folder: only 1 out of ALL the games survived: Monk Ryona Action.

 

[whowhawhy]

i can't find any trace of uproar about the latest tos update but i can find cases over the years of people sometimes losing private personal files (such as documents or family photos/vids) for various reasons:
web-side glitches, not logging in often enough, exceeding limits, unexplained reasons that got solved by contacting tech support, files copied from a dmca'd account, sync-related, mega or nz government or usa agencies having access to your files or just the filenames or doing hash scans - for this i could only find admission by mega on their site that once you start sharing your files with others they may check them against hashes of what's banned/cp by interpol and ncmec, and encryption guys stating that mega's is too weak to shield you if the big guys are after you.

while official statements from companies shouldn't be blindly trusted, their support team has

You must be registered to see the links

You must be registered to see the links

, with the obscenity rule getting a mention, that they don't ban porn

i've found

You must be registered to see the links

about radical US politics; are you concerned about this influencing mega / the rest of the world?

--

from https://f95zone.to/threads/game-uploading-rules-2024-02-29.524/ there's a requirement to not rely on a single host for public downloads
from https://f95zone.to/threads/lost-media.137266/ there's staff's effort to keep backups of files
rpdl.net has torrents for games found here

 

[Penumbral Evanescence]

that they don't ban porn

I don't think they would outright ban porn content, within reason though. As there have been some AVNs in the past that would dangerously skirt the boundaries of what would be deemed acceptable content by the way they represent certain (prepubescent) characters visually in a game. So, the TOS is in place to ensure that no malicious (and potentially) illegal content is stored on Mega servers, because if they get caught with that on their end, that would land them in some hot water from a litigation standpoint.

over the years of people sometimes losing private personal files (such as documents or family photos/vids) for various reasons:
web-side glitches, not logging in often enough, exceeding limits, unexplained reasons that got solved by contacting tech support, files copied from a dmca'd account, sync-related, mega or nz government or usa agencies having access to your files or just the filenames or doing hash scans

Indeed, Mega is not exactly as stable of a file-sharing/hosting platform as they have been since their inception. I mean at the end of the day, they are a cloud-based file hosting provider. So we cannot trust cloud providers in their entirety since (even if there is a Service Level Agreement), there is zero guarantee that your files will be kept secure 24/7, 365.

Also, from a file retention perspective, Mega reserves the right to delete files that have been on their servers for a period of 4-6 months, or possibly less, which signifies the importance of

You must be registered to see the links

at all times to avoid the scenario of losing any private/personal/sensitive documents.

 

[♍VoidTraveler]

*Yawn~* Who cares.
It's been ages since i last used mega.
Like most file hosts they started well but went to shit eventually.

 

[Insomnimaniac Games]

*Yawn~* Who cares.
It's been ages since i last used mega.
Like most file hosts they started well but went to shit eventually.

Mediafire has been holding strong for years upon years. Almost two decades, I think?

 

[Penumbral Evanescence]

*Yawn~* Who cares.
It's been ages since i last used mega.
Like most file hosts they started well but went to shit eventually.

Mediafire has been holding strong for years upon years. Almost two decades, I think?

Yeah, Mega's kinda going down the drain these last few years IMO. I remember one time my 3-4G download got disrupted mid-way for whatever reason and it had nothing to do with my internet speed and/or connection as I ran an

You must be registered to see the links

and everything was all up to speed.

Mediafire's not a bad choice. I've been using them quite often and they are pretty decent too.

Really and truly, what I found useful in the past would be to encrypt your physical USB sticks with

You must be registered to see the links

and then upload those encrypted files to

You must be registered to see the links

Easy and pretty secure

You must be registered to see the links

is one of the best in the industry (based on my experience using them) when it comes to secure USB sticks

 

[anne O'nymous]

I don't think they would outright ban porn content, within reason though. As there have been some AVNs in the past that would dangerously skirt the boundaries of what would be deemed acceptable content by the way they represent certain (prepubescent) characters visually in a game. So, the TOS is in place to ensure that no malicious (and potentially) illegal content is stored on Mega servers, because if they get caught with that on their end, that would land them in some hot water from a litigation standpoint.

I agree, porn do not necessarily mean "obscenity". While in the same time, using that word permit to have a wording that is imprecise enough yet perfectly defensible face to a judge. In most Anglo-Saxon countries porn is covered by the anti-obscenity laws. Yet, like Mega do not define what they classify as being obscene, they can move the cursor depending on the globality of the content.