I can't help but look at 'Mega' and get the feeling that the 'Secure and Private' part is 99% Kim trying to protect himself from further lawsuits, rather then actually ensuring the privacy and security of user data. I hope I'm wrong of course.
Does it matter? In this case the alterior motive (Kim protecting himself) happens to coincide with privacy, becuase if your information was not private than Mega could know it, which defeats the entire point of Mega being protected by not knowing it.
Without real privacy, it doesn't protect him or his users.
Yeah, looking at the news I don't agree with the people claiming Mega is trying to protect itself above users. It just seems genuinely flawed. I don't know what good the service would be without working privacy for the users.
True, but it does of course at least for some time work as marketing.
Useful features always act as marketing.
IMO, if he primarily wanted to protect himself from further lawsuits he'd pick a different line of business. There are easier ways to make money.
I would agree, if it wasn't for the fact that for him to start a 'somewhat edgy storage service' guarantees him publicity, investors and the love of 10s of millions of Megaupload users (and probably a few nice millions of $$ no matter the outcome)
Easier if you're starting from zero, but he already knows this way and a lot of his ego must be wrapped into this corner of the digital world. I don't believe he made an entirely rational cost/benefits decision with this.
I'd guess avoiding lawsuits is secondary to his other motives, which aren't necessarily characterised by "make money fast, safely".
This exact comment has come up in every single Mega thread.