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Megaupload Host Wants Out
angry tapir writes "Carpathia Hosting, a U.S. company hosting the frozen data of millions of users of the file-sharing site Megaupload, has gone to court to argue it should not keep the files if it is not being paid. The company has filed an emergency motion in the U.S. Federal Court in the state of Virginia seeking protection from the expense of hosting the data of up to 66 million users. 'While Carpathia has never had access to the data on Megaupload servers and has had no mechanism for returning that data to Megaupload users, we have been attempting over many weeks to resolve this matter to the satisfaction of all parties involved, in a manner that would allow for Megaupload users to be in a position to ultimately recover their data,' Brian Winter, the company's chief marketing officer says."
Freezing someone's assets to "Prevent their flight" disrupts all their business, legitimate or not...? Who knew that was going to happen?
Hell, I'm still confused as to how a German living in New Zealand gets arrested on the orders of the FBI...
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They are afraid that the case against "Kim Dotcom" implodes and he sues (which, given the circumstances is not unlikely). It will be interesting to see the outcome of this. Kim Dotcom certainly has the funds and is willing to fight this to the end.
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The megaupload servers will have the details of all the users and their uploaded pirated stuff in their accounts. Just bill their credit cards.
Seriously, you realize that this is the start of the process not the end, those servers contain massive amounts of copyright infringement logs and a paid account is linked to a credit card and thus to a person. So there will be a mass of investigations to follow from this.
There's no way a court will let that data be destroyed.
Are you seriously implying that any entity operating "on foreign soil" is by definition doing something illegal?
By the same yardstick, if the bank holding your mortgage has been used to transfer drug money the USG can seize all it's accounts & kick you out of your home while proceedings are undergoing against the bank officers that were abetting the drug runners?
No. Hell NO!
I never used Mega* directly (got some stuff from friends who did though) as I always assumed that something would come along to squash it However, locking the legit users out amounts to illegal seizure in my book.
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