One of the mega-trends playing out over the century has been the drive for details, and with that comes increased knowledge and levels of specialization.

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Dotcom is clever and MEGA is designed both to compete with cloud storage giants like Dropbox, Google Drive, and RapidShare and also to insulate itself from future charges.

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"You have companies like Dropbox and Google with Drive with materially similar technologies, and they are in business and they're thriving and Mega adds encryption, " he says.

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