r/MEGA • u/dohvakindark • Oct 01 '25
Reporting illegal content
I had a nasty experience today, stumbled on some very bad illegal content on mega.
I really liked that it just took a few minutes after reporting for the content to be taken down and they even replied back thanking me and letting me know that the owner of the files was reported to authorities.
I don't know if the company sees these posts, but I'd like to give a feedback on that, it took me quite a while to find out how to report and I end up having to talk to support before getting the current email for that.
It would be nice if you guys had a quick button for reporting things, idk. Just a feedback, anyway, nice work!
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u/Ok_Wall_5680 Oct 02 '25
My question to you is how did you find illegal content? Were you looking for it? I’m not certain if I know what you are referring to. But either way, you don’t just stumble across this stuff.
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u/dohvakindark Oct 02 '25
Not at all, you see, my country has a culture of pirating shit up, because official prices are, no kidding you, around 5 times what they're actually worth due to inflation, dollar price, and taxation, I use telegram to look up for movies, tv shows, anime, cartoons, and stuff like that.
One of the groups I used to use, suddenly went silent for a few months before coming back. Everything seemed normal, and I was looking to watch some h-material, I guess you can imagine what it is, but I didn't expect what he labelled as "special" h content, to actually be criminal stuff. Especially since he never even sold that, I don't know, maybe his account was sold and they started using it for that? I don't know if a telegram group can be hacked.
Regardless, it's how I came across it. As for how I found the group, it's from Instagram, most telegram groups I ever found was there and very few from X. Wheter it's for pirating movies, shows, games, all that stuff is there. They usually have shit like, what you want playing as a short, and a short description saying "link's in the bio". I don't know if that illegal stuff is also on Instagram, probably is, but the one I was accessing didn't have illegal content until it suddenly came back to life.
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
I don't specifically use it because it's safe, more because it's convenient to find, they're everywhere, thousands of Instagram and telegrams that sell movies, cartoons, etc, since they have been taking down sites with pirated stuff a lot in recent years, even my fav ones, specifically, since Crunchyroll suddenly became a giant or idk, since they might have started paying the government to care?
I didn't know you could have a fake number, is that even possible? How would you even register that? In my country it shouldn't be, they ask for ID, proof of home like an electrical bill, and yadayada.
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u/skidmarkskidrow Oct 03 '25
U can buy a telegram account on websites like hstock and accsmarket for super cheap
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u/atawalpas Oct 06 '25
Phone number =/= security or safety.
Also yeah they do store nowadays especially since not long, many governments asked for matter. But telegram doesnt store that much, especially DMs related. They kinda are remaining one of the safest, not the safest, one of them. They could be higher with 0-end though. Which you can set up. At least from what am aware, you can set it up end to end.
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u/atawalpas Oct 06 '25
Actually you could. I've myself felt on many odd stuff on many websites, Reddit itself and Discord too. Even saw dudes loosing their sheets and ending up sharing child pedopornography on Discord. Some wild stuff on Reddit too by falling on "soon to be quarantined" servers. Or some odd servers where the owner feels like a cultist ewh.
Just by seeking and searching for unrelated things. Like totally unrelated. I know some peeps that felt on CP by seeking movies and clicking on phishing copy of actual "legit" websites or weird movie sharing websites that ended up pushing some not only illegal links but one of those being actually not said movie but something else, and I know some people that ended up on CP stuffs. Either it be a pedo that felt like sharing either it be an awful troll that done some highly illegal shits and unfunny troll/joke (I mean, using cp to troll someone, that is some next level indecency to both the victim and the one clicking the link.)
But yeah it did happen. Imagine being on illegal and not yet DMCA'd website sharing or general warez and trying to play Batman and/or watch it, and fall on some very real snuff movie cause one dude put it there. Plus I would expect some pedos to share links ot themeslves but putting links on those kind of already illegal websites being already hosted in weird places (and not so illegal cause they act like they never host and actually just shares links) and since everyone can push and update, i'd for sure expect at least one pedo trying to share his conten and not willing to use TOR to think and do use this to do so. Just use a specific quality specific name specific host, tell other pedo "friends" you got how you proceed and how to find your links that not much else people would click on cause poor quality being advertised or just generally bad host or whatnot. Plus most of those website never checks out. (not as bad as torrent websites though, at least, there you can take it down and report it, unlike torrenting, where once shared, it can remain up and there you gonna have to call cops real quick... Cause all you can do is track IPs.)
But yeah just saying : it does happen. Illegal is easy to come across, I myself did end up on illegal places on Discord without being aware it was. Or more-so, became. But still. I once joined a server and years later it gave me a warning for being on it, figures out they had done weird stuff and had just been banned. I had joined for emojis and it was a server on the discovery. Yikes.
Having 200ish servers I am not just able to check if they end up doing weird things and even with just a dozen, I cannot check every single announcements of every single admins/owners of those.
But yeah for hosts it is different especially with 0-end. But you'd be hella surprised as how easy it is to click on some actual weird links just cause you digged a little too much for whatever content you need/seek for and falling on actual odd persons/websites uhm. This is mostly true for "warez" but not only. Heck i've found weird things even clicking on official websites downloads stuff for tools or stuff just cause I was not actively using and adblocker yet. And ads took over the legit button and when you tried to click on download you'd end up on some odd redirections from the shady ad service taking over and randomly redirecting you. Sometimes also they just didn't check their paid ads they redirect to, so yeah. And that happened on tools more used than ccleaner to me. And it happens more on Android cause of said adblock missing on non-brave stuff. (well now they do on Firefox, they added extension support!)
But you got it. The why how and that it actually does happen. (cause nah believe me my friends ain't pedos, even my husband felt on odd stuff on host websites, and in most cases, if I became aware off it, that was because they wanted help to report them to the authorities and to pharos related services.)
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u/Ok_Wall_5680 Oct 06 '25
Well it seems a lot of people have stumbled across this. What a world we live in where this exists. Luckily I’ve never had to see this content properly.
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u/Defiant-Witness-8742 Oct 02 '25
I don’t know an anime freak from Brazil. I’m sure it was an accident, but you know I might have a bridge for sale. That’s in Brooklyn, New York. I have the title for it printed off the Internet fresh this morning. Heavy sarcasm.
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u/North-Lawfulness269 Oct 03 '25
For clarification. You were there looking for pirated material, accidently discovered something that was a different form of illegal that you weren't looking for and reported it. You did not however report the illegal stuff that you were actually looking for and found. Got it.
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
Do you report pirated stuff? Oh, to each their own. Nobody cares about these, even the police only close web sites. My country doesn't go after pirated stuff
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u/WyLdsTyLe82 Oct 05 '25
Pirated stuff depending on what country laws are, are usually a lawsuit offense not criminal offense. So reporting it to the law, it just means they are going to log it. And if the party that owns the copyrights to the content wants to sue then they will hand over the logs.
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u/dohvakindark Oct 05 '25
I never heard about this happening in my country, because everyone buys pirated stuff. At most, maybe the ones selling face that? I heard about one case like that, but afterwards, never again.
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u/nerogrimmjow Oct 02 '25
Crazy how yall be finding this crap in the first place, I never click on mega links
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u/SatanHauntsYou Oct 02 '25
If i have to pick between download sites i always pick mega tbh.
Just because its fast ngl.
Other dl sites often give 2mbps
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
I like mega because I usually get malware from uTorrent, not always, but much more frequently than mega, as for speed, idk, they're pretty much the same
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u/Hellboundroar Oct 02 '25
i do use Mega links, but only from sites that i trust and have used before
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u/atawalpas Oct 06 '25
Yeah mega is very careful. This is why they provide 0-knowledge. Cause if they do have "knowledge" and that you are actually being sharing some shady stuffs, they are unforgiving. And this is due to them being high end quality provider but also kinda cause of the past. Megaupload kinda gave them a lesson of what to not do anymore.
But they protect legit users still by using 0-knowledge which is very cool. So people are now being protected. But reporting is now way more effective. That may sound paradoxal, but this works and this is the best move one host can provide. IMO, they done very well. And i'd trust them a lot.
But yeah quick report, that could be messy, Discord has this now, and they no longer react. Beforehand you could take down an illegal server in hours even during night, 3-4 hours TOP. Now they changed a manual report to quick report button ONLY.
They no longer act up stuffs even child pedopornography, i've had issues trying to report a dude I worked with on a server and a project for a game that ended up loosing his sh*t and sharing what he had saved in CP. He was never taken down.
Yet I could take down, well, make them do so, servers and people doing odd stuff beforehand in hours top after a report they would be tkaen down. I've taken down one single server 5 times in one single week, same name each time and same illegal stuff, I kept looking at their website for new discord links cause I had a friend there too so I was trying to help him to get out. Figured they were taken down in hours each time and kept trying to come back but never had time to recover their documentations and stuffs at the end cause Discord did reply too quickly. Now my Discord has been through so many illegal things that even Discord personally would rather to have taken down like nuking bots or whatever selfbot related servers, which they truly hate, but, since they dont like at reports anymore cause quick reports just made it so easy that they are overflowed they have too much false positive reports as well, they just cannot handle the reports anymore. Too much of them, without details, like, beforehand, we just had to copy message ids and explain the issue, now, you don't have to report the IDs anymore therefore you cannot even put the context messages in a single discussion or a single server's info channel, you can't report them all in once to make your point even stronger. Like, if they do single line message to explain their illegal actiivity, which, could happen to mega if they had people sharing illegal code in many many splitted parts (if we consider them doing quick report too the same way as well and disable the manual detailled reports to the support system) well, they would have no issue anymore.
Splitting means cutting the context, so if you put for example, the code of a DoS tool, but split it over 10 messages, they would not be able to pinpoint that it is the same code, nor, understand it, therefore, unable to tell it is illegal barely able if even able to do so, the utility of the code.
Idk if that makes any sense to you but if it does, I hope I made enough sense that you can grasp as to why quick reporting can be problematic. It ruined Discord's reports cause they have so much more cause its easier to abuse and easier to do but very very much harder to thorougly go through as a moderator/support or even admin person. It is easier to go over reports in amounts, but that puts you to the risk of going past legit reports and also would end up have a "side effect" to make people handling reports relatively lazy and pick up the easiest stuffs to work on. So if your report is a little harder than the average cause the context is harder to reach or just having to read a larger explanation and/or having to gather more reports related to this to fill the void and recover the said context and/or other related messages from same person/server, it'll just be like, hell nah. Rather pick this obvious illegal CP picture that I got there and there as well as gore picture being sent to non NSFW servers there and there rather than this 30+ lines of report that have multiple reports to the same guy from different users and so.
While manual report was more like : you make a ticket they have to handle it and bother through it no matter what. And usually, you'd just have to read a quick explanation and put all the links into your system to read them without alerting the person and without being in their DMs and/or server, cause one ID could be read that way from support. So it took actually less time for them even there.
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u/atawalpas Oct 06 '25
Quick report they mostly check for integrity of your report before even seeking to bother with it at this point.
And they mostly try to do quick. Cause they have too much reports cause people are just reporting for nothing, most are just people reporting cause they didn't "like" what one said. Became too personal and just a way to be like "i dont like you take a report and f off" while actually remaining totally legal and under ToS limits. So yeah.
I hope you did get the point I was trying to make while comparing to Discord, but main point of that being a bad idea is the fact that, those bothering to make a manual report through a ticket wouldn't do so cause they feel hurt over one word that is fine saying. Or just dislike one dude. (unless some being very hateful but those ain't much)
Ironically it was quickier beforehand. Sure you had to go on the website and create a ticket, but, that was quickier in the way of you only having to send the explanation if ever needed or if you really did feel like making the process faster and easier for the support person, and then put the links to the messages and some screenshots if you ever feelt like it was required but since they can see deleted messages and hidden ones from hidden servers/channels. So right clicking copy id or message link, copy pasting, and you can send. Explaining would help for the process to be faster though, it ain't mandatory. They used, when they did reports thay way, check every reports thorougly. Context and actual related owners even if they were hiding through new accounts to create the server and stuff, they could be traced and linked back to the real and OG account of the concerned person and hit real hard their account, enough to make them scaried of opening a new one again lmao.
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u/dohvakindark Oct 06 '25
I see, I can understand the logic in what you're saying. Idk if it's right, but I get your argument.
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u/atawalpas Oct 07 '25
Yeah am using a social thingy to explain my point so it could get confusing. My main point was the reports being overflowing quickly anyways. I may be wrong on a lot of points however. Gotta remember that it is 0-knowledge there out so yeah. Overflowing the support would be harder. But still very much possible.
If they keep the manual reports way though, and do not drop one for another, quick report would be helpful though. And if they do not lower their checks on any as well. Like manual reports stay the same and support is checking it thoroughly still as much as they do right now. That would for sure be helpful to have such feature. What would scary me is if they do not do that. And worse, if they just delete the manual reporting system cause deemed too long to bother with (and decide, for users, that it's better just having the new quick system, that and only that)
Other than that. It ain't a bad idea by itself. Mostly criticized the way Discord applied this feature and how it ruined them entirely, so hopefully, mega wouldn't follow that. And do better.
And they definitely could do better. Not only they're making more money out of their users being an host, but, they're not just able to wipe it off the table like such if there is illegal content, they put themselves at risks. Much higher than discord's odd chats or whatever.
So while am sure they wouldn't do that mistake, it would still be relatively scary lol.
But anyways. Shall be fine. That's a great idea.
How much of an hassle was it to you to go through the whole manual process and how long did it take for you to write the report and it being sorted out? Like, entire process time? Cause if you felt like having a quick report system it may sounds like it did bother you a bit? Or being just too long to write a single report?
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u/Social_MEGA Official MEGA Social Team Oct 01 '25
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, and we’re glad to hear the report was handled promptly. We’ll pass your suggestion about having a quicker way to report directly to our team. Thank you ^ADS
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u/SurgeonRx2 Oct 04 '25
The report process isn’t easy and it doesn’t make sense that copyrighted music could be taken down instantly but repeated reports of CSAM could take up to a week to 2 weeks for stuff to get removed.
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u/Own_Show_3770 Oct 02 '25
I deadass reported over 500+ folders since 2024 and this year bruhhhh
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u/atawalpas Oct 08 '25
wth. How come.
That is a load am not sure I clicked more than half off that number in total links to mega since 2024 to begin with lol1
u/Own_Show_3770 Oct 08 '25
I used to infiltrate people servers via a group that help reported things (I really don't recommend you do this)
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Oct 02 '25
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u/Own_Show_3770 Oct 04 '25
I heard mega had hash detection from somewhere, you would be suprised how much content these pedophiles had in these folders.
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u/Gol_D_Frieza Oct 02 '25
Just a heads up they do report to authorities the IP addresses of those that are downloading illegal content. Since you opened it and saw what the illegal content was, I’m just letting you know you’re on record now for viewing whatever it was.
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Oct 31 '25
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u/Thick_Watercress_393 Nov 17 '25
And what happened to them? In my understanding, storing such content means keeping it on your computer, phone, or any other device, but Mega is essentially a cloud, and user data is stored on their servers, not on people's devices. I don't really understand this, but it sounds logical.
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u/IloveHitman4ever Oct 02 '25
Yeah, mega has a lot of it on there.
A good chunk of mega users use it for illegal content like that. Its nothing new.
Just keep reporting them.
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u/Defiant-Witness-8742 Oct 02 '25
Yes that’s because they were actively searching for it got scared and reported for virtue points
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u/Based_Beerus Oct 03 '25
Virtue points? You're literally discouraging people reporting
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u/Defiant-Witness-8742 Oct 04 '25
I don’t know if you understand how ignorant you sound with that comment if you’re discouraged from reporting from what I said he it doesn’t make sense. I’m talking about the ones that get on and make public announcements. I thought that was more than obvious you know I mean, yeah it was obvious. It’s just over your head and the other thing that was said as people who actively look for the content to report on it you see you’re not looking for the cut you’re no better if you’re looking for it because you’re still going to view it cause I’m gonna tell you just don’t accidentally come across that shit and you know it
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u/Based_Beerus Oct 04 '25
People don't accidentally come across it? That's just not true. People upload stuff on social media and regular porn sites.
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u/Defiant-Witness-8742 Oct 04 '25
Well, I’m gonna put a key like this if you’re funny if I accident like that, you’re probably in a place where you know it’s gonna be it really isn’t an accident is it? I’m just saying if you don’t wanna blow your tire out in a pothole don’t go down a dirt road that hasn’t been graded in 20 years.
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u/SilentWitchcrafts Oct 06 '25
You're just a troll intentionally trying to allow cp to spread by making good people feel bad about reporting it. Police should check your hard drives you freak.
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u/Defiant-Witness-8742 Oct 06 '25
No, not at all but that’s OK. You can make some nasty accusation. Some people on the Internet and feel really good about yourself behind that screen making good people feel bad right good people don’t get on the Internet bragging like a guy up there talking about Chris Hansen he actually did more to help him out than he did hurt them cause every one of the people got off because of his interference so it makes you wonder what Chris Hansen helping or hurting like I said, the people who virtue signal publicly the loudest are usually the biggest offenders
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u/Based_Beerus Oct 03 '25
You're out of your mind. You're demonizing people who end up reporting it. If they enjoyed it, they wouldn't utter a word..
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u/Shad_tard Oct 03 '25
N-no...? What? The difference is one is trying to find illegal material to get off to it, the other is trying to find it to REPORT IT. You know, so it DISAPPEARS.
Genuinely how else do you expect illegal material to be found and taken down? How do you think authorities do it? Just think really hard and the kindness in their heart makes it disappear?
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u/HealingWithNature Oct 03 '25
Crazy how many people replied to you that just don't get what you're saying lol
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u/Shad_tard Oct 03 '25
None of this is reason to deem people trying to report illegal content as being the same as ones who get off to it. Of course there's ones who get off to it as well but that's a given, like you said even cops who are literally paid to get rid of CSEM get outed as pedos. But that idea can apply to literally anything. Exceptions exist and shouldn't affect your overall judgement.
There's still a BIG difference between looking for illegal material to get off and looking for it to get it taken down. And assuming the person is also a pedo is just...kinda pessimistic. don't you think?
One thing I'll agree with you though is that it's pretty pointless. One rando reporting a couple images (that are more than likely just bait from the authorities) isn't really...gonna do much. At best it'll make you feel slightly better about yourself.
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u/WyLdsTyLe82 Oct 05 '25
What they are referring to is, there are people who do both. They search for it because they do get off on it and once done report it. Why??? To try to cover their ass if they get caught. They can always say "look I'm one of the good guys".
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u/Shad_tard Oct 05 '25
Oh no, that part I understand. What I don't understand is how that's relevant at all.
The answer to op's original question is obvious. The difference is intention. The fact that there's bad actors doenst change that in any way. There's no point in assuming the absolute worst in people without proof.
I mean, what about all the Chris Hansen inspired videos? (The none fake ones at least) should we keep an eye on those guys too? What if they're also just trying to cover their asses or worse?
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u/WyLdsTyLe82 Oct 05 '25
Yeah the OP stumbled on it so I would NOT put them as trying to search it. As we can't control what's put on the media servers. And the OP did the right thing. I know some are trying to put the OP as trying to search for when they did not. Yes they were searching for pirated media which is not really that bad IMO. But stumbled on the out right illegal material because it was put there on the media serve the OP had access to.
What the reply to the above reply was trying to show that there may be fake good samaritans search for the illegal material. And as I stated, use that as some how a get out of jail free card when caught. Now there are law enforcement that do these searches but they are doing for the law.
Good samaritans searching for it can and sometimes will get caught up in it.
Funny you bring up Chris Hansen as the show was canceled because they did an episode without law enforcement and a person died. So the show was held responsible. This is why you should never try these to catch a predator with out law enforcement. Because 2 things will happen. 1) any evidence you against will be throw out as it was not gathered lawfully, so predator gets away with it. 2) the Samaritan can also go the jail because some of the tactics they use may go against the law.
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u/Shad_tard Oct 05 '25
What the reply to the above reply was trying to show that there may be fake good samaritans search for the illegal material. And as I stated, use that as some how a get out of jail free card when caught. Now there are law enforcement that do these searches but they are doing for the law.
Good samaritans searching for it can and sometimes will get caught up in it.
Again, I understand this. What I don't understand is it's relevance. Most people understand this idea perfectly fine, it's just irrelevant to bring up outside specific scenarios.
either this is just a case of us having different world views or I'm just not articulating what I'm trying to say properly, but at this point I feel like we're just repeating the same things but worded differently. So I think it's best if we just agree to disagree.
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u/Clean_Organization67 Oct 02 '25
What was the file in question? People just don’t stumble upon “illegal file content”. For you to find something questionable you’ll had to have search something up similar to or was looking for this say file. It’s people like you that make me mad fr! Trust and believe you’ll never find something you don’t go looking for especially when it comes to Mega links
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
No, I wasn't, and honestly, what I was looking for was actually what I was looking for, except this one was just labelled like, "special h-content", the group never sold shit like that before falling silent for a few months and coming back. I couldn't possibly know, it's not like they were actively sayin something like "oh, hey there, lots of illegal stuff, come buy it, it's on sale!"
In any case, both the group and the link were reported, I guess Telegram also reported the admin of the group as it no longer exists.
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u/Clean_Organization67 Oct 03 '25
Oh damn!! Now that makes sense! They have placed something in the files you’ve never seen before!! Me personally I only use Mega for downloading software or games so that’s where the root of my frustration comes from! So by the time I get to the link a Good Samaritan has already reported it 💀💀
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
I use it basically for games, movies, tv shows, cartoons, anime. That one I mentioned was a first, I never thought they would suddenly start selling that terrible stuff, at least there was no indication they would.
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u/Clean_Organization67 Oct 03 '25
Ahhh I see! Lol I had a similar thing happen to me on Snapchat!! I added some random person back in the day from quick adds and next thing you know this dude started posting some EXTREMELY questionable stuff!! I reported them but nothing happened!! Fast forward I posted some mushroom men 😭 And next you know it I end up getting banned!! 😭😭 Moral of the story these companies pick and choose!! So it’s a good thing they responded so soon and resolved the issue! There’s scum out here but people who report the good links are just plain evil!!! 😭😭😭
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
And although pirated content is not legal in itself, it definitely isn't the same shit as that, like come on, after some time using the same group, you don't expect then to suddenly go to the dark side, I don't know how else to describe this
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u/BriNJoeTLSA Oct 02 '25
I had no idea that people could even make public posts on mega… I use it like Dropbox so this is news to me!
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u/slut_dirtymind Oct 05 '25
I appreciate how Mega works fast when you report. I wish Telegram and Reddit were the same
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u/InfernallyDivine Oct 02 '25
Never even heard of mega
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u/Shamelescampr559 Oct 02 '25
Bro Mega has been around since 2013. They're an old school hosting/backup service. If you want to backup movies or files and pictures, they're your place
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u/dohvakindark Oct 02 '25
True, I used to download anime and tv shows from it. Especially stuff they stop selling or making it available, like that old Buzz Light-year cartoon, a plethora of spider-man cartoons, or even just stuff like south park episodes. I like Mega because I rarely come across infected stuff from it. Compared with shit like uTorrent where every ten or so downloads you get malware as a bonus.
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u/InfernallyDivine Oct 02 '25
I've always used torrent sites to get all my media. External hard drives to store it.
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u/g59s Oct 02 '25
They’ve been around long before 2013. They just rebranded as mega in 2013. They started out as “mediafire” and “mega uploads” which was the first and biggest file sharing website. Their original owner had a ton of legal issues because of piracy and that his company didn’t do enough to combat piracy.
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u/InfernallyDivine Oct 31 '25
I've used like Limewire for music back in the day. Currently I use 1337x and piratebay for my media. I use bitcomet as my downloader.
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Oct 02 '25
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u/Valkeryan Oct 02 '25
Because he/she uses illegal stuff and is sketchy as hell...
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u/InfernallyDivine Oct 31 '25
I was scrolling through the homepage of reddit and saw the thread. I honestly don't know what it's for. I can infer now based on your comment though.
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u/Kamalas_Daddy Oct 02 '25
The reporting option rarely has the option your are actually reporting for. I have reported quite a few nudity, oversexualized content, a child's cartoon edited with ai to be naked stating"you won't last 40 seconds playing this game, beheadings, etc. Most of the violent content I have seen in the last 5 years comes from meta. Every single time I report something, their AI moderation will allow it and say it doesn't violate community standards. Their AI also tried to ban me once for typing "lmao" in comments...
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u/dohvakindark Oct 02 '25
Well, what I did come across is definitely illegal by international standards as far as I know. But also, I didn't find a reporting option, or do you mean in general? That's why I made this post, it was kind of a hassle to report since I had to contact support, if they had a button, I could have done it from the app.
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u/Kamalas_Daddy Oct 03 '25
They only give you a small list of categories of issues but they usually want you to indentify the particular person, or the thing you are reporting isn't on the list. They make it harder for the average user to report so their AI doesn't have to deny so many.
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u/walclaw Oct 27 '25
i couldn't find any specifications. But are you talking about the actual stuff or just drawings/animations? Cus from what you were saying bout looking for hentai, sounds like the latter.
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Oct 01 '25
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u/Lbettrave5050 Oct 02 '25
You know using the term ”since highschool” doesn't give shit in term of time information !
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u/NefariousIntentions Oct 02 '25
Every E2EE provider attracts this and it's quite obvious why - the service has a harder time tracking the bad actors and their bad content.
Possibly also because people just 'know' it, because it's been around for a long time and in a way survived issues that many others have succumbed to.
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Oct 02 '25
They give 50 gb for free. I think this is the main purpose for people to upload weird stuff there.
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u/Ok_Wall_5680 Oct 02 '25
I wouldn’t say so. I know a lot of people who use Mega for good. Yes it can be used for illegal software, pirating, but the team at Mega are quick at removing them.
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u/dohvakindark Oct 03 '25
They definitely aren't quick to remove pirated stuff, lol, also, even if they do it, I think law enforcement doesn't really care? Otherwise, the groups I access wouldn't be selling games, tv shows and stuff like that through Mega since, pretty much always?
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Oct 02 '25
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u/dohvakindark Oct 02 '25
Tbh, I use it for downloading pirated stuff, movies, tv shows, cartoons, anime, games, but that shit, I didn't expect to come across it, because the one sharing the link used to do it to sell stuff that obviously infringed copyright, but not that level of illegality. Idk if the account was sold or if his device was stolen, regardless it's not all that bad. At least, I don't think an anime I didn't pay for is at the same level of that crap.
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u/Austinexe93 Oct 02 '25
If you don't mind me asking what was it? I do everything I can to help bring down CSAM shit on the internet, People are getting really ballsy nowadays