Mega does indeed appear to give you 50GB of free storage. Your files, however, may not be the files that are actually stored on the cloud.

The Internet entrepreneur and accused digital outlaw recently launched Mega (short for Mega Encrypted Global Access), a new file storage and sharing service that features 50GB of free storage.

Worried about people accessing your personal files stored on cloud storage services? The new online-storage service Mega proposes a solution — encrypt them with its software.

Kim Dotcom, whose MegaUpload cyberlocker service was closed down at the instigation of the US government, has launched a new privacy-oriented service from his New Zealand mansion.

The Mega Conspiracy indictment says that non-registered free users would have to download their files at least once every 21 days or MegaUpload would delete the content.