MediaFire File Sharing Adds Open-Source Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MediaFire File Sharing Adds Open-Source Linux Support

MediaFire, an online backup service / file hosting and sharing site, has released a "Linux and Open-Source Toolkit" for developers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MediaFire-Linux-File-Sharing

[Serafean]

Here's to wishing someone creates a cloud using the Plan9 protocol, and that that becomes the usual way of doing this.

Every cloud a different app, this is crazy...

[Kemosabe]

Every cloud a different app, this is crazy...

As long as you stay opensource you can use webdav and a single client (seafile, owncloud, ubuntu one (almost forgottan thanks to closed source server side) ).
davfs2 allows you to mount it via fuse so nothing new here . . .
(Does work with dropbox / dropdav too by the way )

Probably mediafire is worth a look for encrypted backups.

[Ardje]

MediaFire+Some other cloud as storage for tahoe-lafs...
secure encrypted safe backups.
When mediafire goes away (The US probably wants to kill them again), you can redistribute your backups to other cloud storage providers.

[uid313]

Here's to wishing someone creates a cloud using the Plan9 protocol, and that that becomes the usual way of doing this.

Every cloud a different app, this is crazy...

Yeah, this sounds really cool. I would like to see more cloud services be explored using the 9P protocol.

[Sonadow]

I can't build the tool; the CMakeLists.txt file makes use of OBJECT library type that was introduced in CMake 2.8.8, and I'm on CMake 2.8.7. T.T

[eydee]

The problem with MF is that if you upload a password protected archive, they ban you immediately, no matter what it contains. So either they can spy on you and read all your stuff, or you cannot use it. Having a linux client or not doesn't matter. I never had issues like this with other cloud/file hosting services, so I'll keep on using alternatives.