Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon

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.

Comments

Re:Can they simply delete it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you realize how completely dumb you sound? Its one thing to say a low is "illegal"...

Do you know how dumb you sound when you don't spell 'law' correctly?

Re:Can they simply delete it?

[Tr3vin]

Do you realize how dumb you would show yourself to be if you were to put things into the contents of your skull?