MediaFire Offers Competitive File Hosting
MediaFire is a new file hosting service that offers unlimited... everything.
What they offer sounds too good to be true, but in my tests, both a 30KB image and a 3MB zip uploaded quickly and easily. The service even displays a progress bar to show you how much longer the upload is going to take. This service should do very well as long as they can follow through with their claims as more people begin using the website.
It was just brought to my attention that paragraph 5 in MediaFire's Terms of Service states:
You may upload on the Services Content created by you or for which you have received express permission from the owner so that other users may view and download said Content. You assume all risk and liability for the Content you upload. You grant, transfer and assign to MediaFire and its successors, assigns and licensees, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service, a fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right and license to publish, distribute, reproduce, transmit, use, translate and archive the Content.
Tom from the MediaFire team just send me an email regarding their Terms of Service. Here are a few things he said, published with his permission:
...it looks like we weren't quite as careful about how we worded our terms of service as we thought we were, and inadvertently apparently caused some confusion and hysteria. Fortunately the Digg users let us know about the ambiguity of the wording we had chosen and we were able to reword the document so that it wasn't quite as confusing.Just to clarify, we have never, and will never sell users content. Our TOS
is a precautionary measure that allows us to host other people's files and
distribute them at the request of the user. We have however taken into
account these users concerns and revised our TOS accordingly....Later today the entire document will be reviewed to fix any other
ambiguities like the above.
They've taken recent complaints and concerns seriously and have updated paragraph 5 of their TOS.
Comments
What is their business model? How are they making money? By ads?
It looks like they're using Google adsense on certain pages.
There's a better alternative: http://filesfly.com . It just works!
>uploading a file gives MediaFire permission to use the file however they want.
No, it does NOT:
"...FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service"
Thank you for your correction.
I've removed that line.
Maybe they're hoping people will upload their videos, pictures, poems, etc and then they can try to be a flickr/YouTube like thing & sell some ads.
I've updated the article with an email I received from them.
I am raja. I upload my files last december on my account for and I want ot download my upload files but the mediafire web site is not open and i how to download my files. plz reply my questions. i wait for your reply.
with regards
Raja
There's another one you guys should try it out. http://www.nakido.com gives you unlimited file upload/download, and they don't have limitation on the size of the file you upload. They also claim that they will keep your files forever.