Megaupload Data May Soon Be Destroyed

Ernesto
March 23, 2012
45
MegaUpload
Print

Carpathia Hosting, the company where MegaUpload leased some of its servers, says that is may have to delete all Megaupload data in the near future.

“Despite our best efforts, the parties have been unable to work out a voluntary solution that meets the concerns of all the various parties who have claimed an interest in Megaupload’s data,” the company announced.

Megaupload’s host filed a motion at the court explaining that it can no longer wait till all the parties involved reach a solution.

Carpathia leased 1,103 servers with 25 petabytes of data to Megaupload, and now loses $9,000 a day while they are inactive.

carpathia The company requests the court to advise on how to proceed and sees two main options.

1. Delete all data and use the servers for other purposes.

2. Get the costs covered by the parties involved in the criminal case.

The hosting company asks the court to schedule a hearing on April 13 to discuss the matter.

For weeks now Megaupload has been negotiating with the Department of Justice to allow users access to their data, but thus far without a solution.

This post is from the News Bits section of TorrentFreak where we present stories from around the web in a concise summary format. Full TorrentFreak articles can be found here. If you have a tip please let us know. News Bits have their very own RSS feed

Follow @torrentfreak

wooot

9000 a day is a shit load. who could blame them
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OK7Y7PCSTJ27RCKZ2MGRSAYCTE NEIL
  
  Yeah but the court here in New Zealand is releasing money as of yesterday to maintain his upkeep – this cost could be easily included of what is released…hopefully the April date will give enough time to resolve this without data loss.
  - Anyone
    
    that was from his personal money
    and not nearly enough to cover $9000 a day (it was something like $30000 a month that he got released, for his rent and the nanny)
Anonymous

The entertainment industry started this mess with the help of the US government, I can’t see why those fucks aren’t paying the bill. I mean unless they really just intended to ruin Mega from the start and had no real interest in actually completing the case against them… but that would just be – oh wait no that’s actually it.
Anyone

charge the MAFIAA
they like to charge other people for doing their work (like forcing ISP to pay to censor the web), see how they like it.
MasterJ633

Does the DoJ WANT to Piss off as Many People as Possible?

All they have to Do is Not Allow more Uploads, Downloading Only, so we can get our Files.
This would Make MANY Fortune 500 Companies that Used MU Happy, as well as Most of Us who don’t have Back-Ups of Files we Posted.

And 2nd, Why the hell would they be in such a rush to delete it if it’s the Key Evidence in Their Case?
1 would think if they delete it all, they would have no case on MU since all Evidence is Gone.
- Anyone
  
  they are in a rush to delete it because they lose $9000 every day those servers just stand around.
  
  MU has its funds frozen, so they can’t pay.
  the MAFIAA or the DoJ have no interest in keeping the data (since it could contradict their case), so they will also not pay.
  - Anonymous
    
    Contradict their case? Without that evidence, they have no case.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Right in one. No data = no case and I really think this is about destroying MegaUpload by destroying the data by hook or crook.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3P4YEMCHBFPEIZCRG3RJ33Z6UY Jerrod

Lets hope they do destroy it, given why the MAFIAA wants to keep it: To sue everybody who used Megaupload.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/mpaa-megaupload-user-litigatio/
- Anonymous
  
  “Deep in the Utah Desert the National Security Agency is building the country’s biggest spy center. It’s the final piece of a secret surveillance network that will intercept and store your phone calls, email, Google searches… (Watch what you say.)”
  
  Read: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
  
  http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7011/utah032112e133233868925.jpg
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay
  
  The day that Megaupload’s data is destroyed is the day that 150 million people sue the government…
  
  There’s going to be anarchy in the courtroom on this one.
Telezarz

Destroy the data, then, all this shit happened for nothing. And where are the evidences of 500million dollars made from copyright materials : in MAFIAA’s ass.
Guest

The DoJ does not care about what happens to the data in the Carpathia servers anymore because they already copied everything. After they did that, they returned control of the servers to Carpathia, that was stated in a previous news report.
- Rekrul
  
  The DoJ copied SOME of the data, not all of it. Most likely, they cherry-picked a few drives full of infringing files, so as to paint the picture that there were no legal files on the service.
  
  If the data does get deleted, I hope it torpedoes the entire case, since MU won’t have access to the data to use in its defense. Hopefully, that will result in the charges being dropped.
- Anyone
  
  the DoJ doesn’t have the capacity to store 25 Petabyte (1 Petabyte is 1000 Terabyte or 1 million Gigabyte)
  
  they cherrypicked some data to paint a bad picture of MU, so if the rest is deleted it will help their case.
  - Anonymous
    
    They don’t have the capacity to store it? It’s ALREADY stored. They just have to maintain it.Or seize the bloody servers.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

What the media majors dont seem to grasp is that their hiding behind the MAFIAA and in turn in this case the fbi. The people understand this is not a victimless crime, users have lost data and the people rightfully blame greedy copyright dinosaurs.

With each turn they make against their own customers and potential customers entrenches the attitude of those people to become past customers and to remain so.

The MAFIAAs paymasters forget at their peril the adage ‘the customer is always right’
- Anonymous
  
  Exactly. Especially people that follow/get dragged into this mess of copyright issue. I couldn’t dream spending money on US entertainment – not only because I can get it free, but because it would feel such an immoral thing to do. Giving companies like Universal money is like inviting a rapist to a girls sports camp.
Asdasdasd

What is more important, “$9,000 a day” or to prove Megaupload’s innocence? FUCK OFF AND DIE MAFIAA
- Bj
  
  your right
Pingback: Megaupload Data May Soon Be Destroyed - THEGADGETNATION
Pingback: Megaupload Data May Soon Be Destroyed | U Torrent Free Download
Casual Guest

Sometimes I wonder how much does it cost to bribe a judge. If only I had 20000 mp3s in my ipod (worth 8 billion dollars)… 8 billion… is that enough?
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente | TodoMdP
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente #iMapas
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente | TECNOLOGIA Y NOTICIAS
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente | Javakafe
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente - La Isla Buscada
Pingback: Megaupload: 25 PB an Daten droht die Löschung | BURAK.TO - it's so simple
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente | Jobbr es
Pingback: Carpathia Hosting avisa que si no llegan a un acuerdo eliminara los archivos de MU | ZonadiCtoZ
Pingback: Megaupload: la empresa de hosting avisa del borrado total si no se llega a un acuerdo inminente
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

Carpathia has done EXACTLY the right thing. By asking the Court what to do with the data on these money-draining servers they’re forcing the issue to be resolved one way or another, and whatever the Court decides, Carpathia will no longer be a 3rd-party innocent victim in this stramash between the other parties in the case.

What I mean is -
1. If the Court says delete the data (which would be a gross miscarriage of justice as that’s where the main evidence is stored), then Carpathia can free-up their servers for other customers;
or,
2.If the Court says retain the data, then someone somewhere, will have to pay Carpathia their losses, ie $9k per day. Whether that cash would come from the NZ DoJ, the MAFIAA, or maybe even from the defendants is open to some debate. My “commonsense” tells me these costs would have to borne, IN THE FIRST PLACE, by the people who initiated this case against Megaupload and, if they win the case, those costs can be added to the final decision against MU.

Simples, huh? lol
- Anonymous
  
  Hey Rob, forward those thoughts to the powers that be, cuz they sure as hell don’t seem to get it. ROFL!!
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  They have enough money in MegaUpload’s account to pay for this hosting for quite a while into the future. I say that they should immediately tap that source of funds and use it to keep the data handy for defense and prosecution purposes (don’t really think there is any of the latter).
Pingback: Megaupload: Unglaubliche 25 Petabyte Daten kurz vor Löschung
Pingback: Megaupload: el hosting amenaza con eliminar su contenido « LUZBENET
Pingback: Megaupload: el hosting amenaza con eliminar su contenido | Soluciones Practicas en Computación para el Hogar.
Pingback: U.S. Military Had 15,000 Accounts at File Sharing Site MegaUpload – Tech Tuesday
Pingback: GREEN PIRATE » Blog Archive » P2P May Become The New Cloud, New Mobile Network
Pingback: MPAA: If Megaupload Gets Data Back They’ll Relaunch | TorrentFreak
Pingback: MPAA: If Megaupload Gets Data Back They’ll Relaunch | U Torrent Free Download

TorrentFreak

The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide

Megaupload Data May Soon Be Destroyed

NewsBits

Blu-ray Anti-Piracy Tech Stops Discs and Promotes Purchases

Foxtel Breeds Pirates by Locking Up Game of Thrones

UK Student Admits Breaching Sony Copyrights With Leak of PS3 SDK

Pirates Can Be Identified Despite Sharing IP Addresses, ISP Claims

Feds Seize Cash from Major Bitcoin Exchange’s Dwolla Account

MostDiscussed

Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content

Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain

Game Pirates Whine About Piracy in Game Dev Simulator

Copyright Trolls Threaten to Call Neighbors of Accused Porn Pirates

CopyQuote

PopularArticles

VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously, 2013 Edition

Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013

Which VPN Service Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

What’s The Best VPN / Proxy for BitTorrent?

BTGuard Review: How Does it Work?

Optimize Your BitTorrent Download Speed

The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide

Search TorrentFreak

NewsBits

MostDiscussed

CopyQuote

PopularArticles