The More You Know...

January 20, 2012. For those of you who are interested in file-hosting services, a Mediafire Pro account allows up to 100GB in bandwidth of monthly downloads, with the option of additional bandwidth at a cost that is excessive for an account from which almost 20GB of bandwidth is used every day (adding to a total of about 600GB a month). However, MediaPro does have the advantage of unlimited storage time regardless of file access. A MultiUpload Premium account, which is cheap, has the same advantage, but instead of providing direct downloading it only avoids the need to enter a captcha. The terms of these services may change of course. Also, as reported by the news media, the file-hosting site MegaUpload was shut down, a day after Stop SOPA, as the result of international police actions. Certain websites were hacked in response.