Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 30, 2012 @08:39AM from the cloudy-skies dept.

New submitter advid.net writes "According to the Associated Press, user data from the recently-closed file-hosting site Megaupload could be destroyed as soon as Thursday. Apparently Megaupload paid another company to actually store the data. 'But Megaupload attorney Ira Rothken said Sunday that the government has frozen its money. A letter filed in the case Friday by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said storage companies Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc. may begin deleting data Thursday. ... The letter said the government copied some data from the servers but did not physically take them. It said that now that it has executed its search warrants, it has no right to access the data. The servers are controlled by Carpathia and Cogent and issues about the future of the data must be resolved with them, prosecutors said." There's also been talk of a lawsuit against the FBI over users' lost files.

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Re:c:\ erase /S *.* by xcfmx · 2012-01-30 08:46 · Score: 5, Funny

problem #1.. not hosted on DOS.
problem #2.. see problem #1
Re:As Obi Wan once said by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-30 08:48 · Score: 5, Funny

What is the over under on how many human lifetimes worth of porn are about to disappear?
Re:As Obi Wan once said by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-30 08:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Quit playing games with my heart.
A polar bear walks into the White Star office... by Hognoxious · 2012-01-30 09:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Carpathia Hosting
Well, choosing them was a titanic mistake.

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Re:As Obi Wan once said by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-30 09:30 · Score: 5, Funny

9000 seems like a reasonable guess
Re:Can they simply delete it? by TFAFalcon · 2012-01-30 11:44 · Score: 4, Funny

You're driving up the hill in your car, which you use to deliver parcels. The police drag you out and confiscate a parcel that they say proves you are involved in drug trafficing. They then leave the car alone without using the parking brake. The car rolls downhill, crashes into a tree and bursts into flame, destroying the parcels left inside.