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Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks

Posted by samzenpus on from the on-second-thought dept.

First time accepted submitter AlistairCharlton writes "Users' data on the seized Megaupload website will be saved for two further weeks, according to the website's lawyer, despite being shut down by US authorities. From the article: 'Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken reportedly told tech blog TorrentFreak.com that users' data would be saved for at least another two weeks, after it was previously thought that the data would be deleted by Thursday, 2 February.'"

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  1. slashdotted by mapkinase · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyway, the question to who knows: is the data available to users now? Why don't they make it available? MAFIAA does not gain anything by not allowing current users to download their own material. Unless there is a technical issue of nobody's giving rat's ass about users of megaupload.

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  2. From TFA by ciderbrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    Previously known as Kim Schmitz, Dotcom, was arrested at his luxury New Zealand mansion on 20 January; he was found locked in a panic room which contained a gun cabinet.

    That's were you want the gun cabinet to be. Who designs a panic room with guns on the outside? The zombies could learn to use them?

  3. Deleting evidence by mrbill1234 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would have thought that all the evidence would need to be preserved. Surely if any data is deleted that would compromise the case?

    1. Re:Deleting evidence by SuricouRaven · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You assume the outcome hasn't already been determined.

    2. Re:Deleting evidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They don't care about the evidence.
      They don't care about the conviction.
      They just want MegaUpload gone.

      They got what they want, the rest is details.

  4. EFF, Carpathia to Assist Users by miller60 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The EFF and Carpathia Hosting announced this morning that they're working together to assist users who stored non-infringing files on Megaupload. Users can go to MegaRetrieval.com to connect with the EFF, which will review the cases and try to help resolve issues through their free legal services.“EFF is troubled that so many lawful users of Megaupload.com had their property taken from them without warning and that the government has taken no steps to help them,” said Julie Samuels, Staff Attorney at EFF. “We think it’s important that these users have their voices heard as this process moves forward.”

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    1. Re:EFF, Carpathia to Assist Users by TheSpoom · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There should be a "Promote to Article" button for posts like the parent.

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  5. They won't win by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you not read the indictment? Fake DMCA take down, confessions in emails, creating fake super users to keep files uploaded. Mr Dotcom has previous convictions too. He's going down for a long long long time.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

    Not a hope of them winning. If you have files in Megaupload, go ahead an ask FBI for them. In the indictment, they even had emails from Mega boss telling them to fill Megaupload with youtube content to make it look like they had legitimate files! I mean these guys were such idiots they had a US based email system and like the cliqué bad guys discussed the plot with the victims first.

  6. Re:you lose credit when you say 'MAFIAA' by tnk1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, there's only two real problems with the cloud, albeit possibly major ones depending on your utilization.

    1. You can lose your stuff. It's not as easy as we fear, but the Megaupload situation shows that it is not as hard as we had hoped.
    2. If you store private data there, you're taking a risk that you probably don't need to take.

    Neither of these says that you should not use cloud services, what they do say, however, is that for critical data, you should not rely on it. For data expected to be secure, you should not use it at all.

    For my part, the cloud is probably fine to use if you want to store anything that is not security or financially related. The fact that you could lose it doesn't mean you should not use it at all, it just means you should back it up locally. Otherwise, you should be able to keep using the advantages of cloud services, which are still, frankly, going to be more reliable than your home computer on average. They also allow you to get your data where and when you need it, which is another big advantage that should not be overlooked.

    Caveat emptor.