MegaUpload User Data Soon to be Destroyed

Ernesto
January 30, 2012
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MegaUpload has received a letter from the US Attorney informing the company that data uploaded by its users may be destroyed before the end of the week. The looming wipe-out is the result of MegaUpload’s lack of funds to pay for the servers. Behind the scenes, MegaUpload is hoping to convince the US Government that it’s in the best interest of everyone involved to allow users to access their data, at least temporarily.

In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site’s users have complained about the personal files that were lost as collateral damage.

From work-related data to personal photos, the raid disabled access to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of files that are clearly not infringing. A recent announcement by the US Attorney now suggests that these files may soon be lost forever.

“We received a letter very late Friday from the US Attorney that declared there could be an imminent destruction of Megaupload consumer data files on this coming Thursday,” MegaUpload lawyer Ira Rothken told TorrentFreak.

Rothken explains that MegaUpload is determined to protect the interests of its users, but that its hands are tied without help from the authorities. The looming data loss is linked to unpaid bills at Cogent Communications and Carpathia Hosting where MegaUpload leased some of its servers.

“We of course would like to think the United States and Megaupload would both be united in trying to avoid such a consumer protection calamity whereby innocent consumers could permanently lose access to everything from word processing files to family photos and many other things that could never practically be considered infringing,” the lawyer told TorrentFreak.

“Megaupload’s assets were frozen by the United States. Mega needs funds unfrozen to pay for bandwidth, hosting, and systems administration in order to allow consumers to get access to their data stored in the Mega cloud and to back up the same for safekeeping.”

MegaUpload has contacted the US Attorney’s office with a request to unfreeze assets including money and domains so users can get access to their personal data. If this doesn’t happen, the consequences for many MegaUpload users and the future of other cloud hosting services will be disastrous.

“If the United States fails at helping protect and restore Megaupload consumer data in an expedient fashion, it will have a chilling effect on cloud computing in the United States and worldwide. It is one thing to bring a claim for copyright infringement it is another thing to take down an entire cloud storage service in Megaupload that has substantial non infringing uses as a matter of law,” Rothken told us.

Meanwhile, MegaUpload users are also taking action themselves. Last week Pirate parties worldwide began making a list of all the people affected by the raids, and they are planning to file a complaint against authorities in the US. The EFF has also taken an interest in the issue, and is sharing data with the international Pirate parties.

For now, however, the more urgent matter is to ensure that the data doesn’t get destroyed.

Update: The data is safe for two more weeks, at least.

Update: Carpathia Hosting sent us the following statement.

“In reference to the letter filed by the U.S. Department of Justice with the Eastern District of Virginia on Jan. 27, 2012, Carpathia Hosting does not have, and has never had, access to the content on MegaUpload servers and has no mechanism for returning any content residing on such servers to MegaUpload’s customers. The reference to the Feb. 2, 2012 date in the Department of Justice letter for the deletion of content is not based on any information provided by Carpathia to the U.S. Government. We would recommend that anyone who believes that they have content on MegaUpload servers contact MegaUpload. Please do not contact Carpathia Hosting.”

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Anonymous

So they are willing to destroy evidence in a case.
Or is this payback for people even thinking about suing them for the wrongful seizure of their files.
Or did they already make their own copies of the contents of those servers and are digging into them looking for evidence on people they can use in the future.
So many ways for this to go sideways, I sure hope them giving UMG this gift is worth perverting justice this far.
- mic
  
  thatis ridiculous, i can’t believe how these guys think they are above the people, and the law. it leaves me shaking my head for sure. megaupload will just move countries is all. i’m sure it is already in the works.
  
  http://www.made-downloads.com – no ads – new stuff
  - Spam Control
    
    Stop spamming you whore.
    - Mistr-l
      
      sorry,i thought I was giving useful input, just leaving a line for site addy, i don’t make any money off of site, and it is all legitimate, i don’t see the problem, i write good feedback, and i am honest about where people are going when they click. i keep active in the discussions, and make sure to read what most people say, about the main topic and give feedback…. my intent was not to be considered a spammer, and i’m sorry if my honesty offended you.
    - Email
      
      If someone that purchased a legal file from an online store uploads that file to a file sharing site like MegaUpload for backup purposes or easy access for him to that file from any device he wants whenever he wants, with what right do the site owners or FBI delete that file based on a copyright holders request since that file was legally purchased in the first place ?
      Second there are dozens I mean dozens of free artists or individuals that create their own content music, videos, books or any other document that they produce and they like to share what they create with others by uploading those files on a file sharing site like MegaUpload was. The same applies here with what right do the site owners or FBI delete someone else’s intellectual property art work, documents or files based on a 3rd party request which has no copyright on those files ?
      Remember that whatever you create as a user you had the copyright on that content whether is a pictures you take on a vacation or a video you make, some ideas or thoughts you write in a document even a book or a song you write, poetry, technical or scientific data or discoveries you might make or any other content you produce you hold the copyright on that as a creator, and if you upload any of that on a file sharing site like MegaUpload was you could use those powerful copyright laws like DMCA, ACTA, SOPA or PIPA to fight back against those that deleted your copyrighted content whether they are the site owners, RIAA, MPAA or FBI.
      Remember if you cannot fight against the law then fight with the law on your side. ;)
    - Guest
      
      Easy solution -
      
      1. get the fuck off any cloud storage services linked to the US
      
      2. stop paying for anything else linked to the US
      
      3. wait for the US to collapse
      
      4. profit
    - Betzibu
      
      Well, Email, the only problem I see with the idea is that if you apply it to this situation you need evidence to fight the law with the law on your side. But if the law deletes the only evidence you have… sticks and rocks then?
      
      Actually, from what I understand, in this case, the law doesn’t delete the evidence themselves, they create a situation in which nobody can have access to it, nor the means to prolong its existence.
  - frostache
    
    MegaUpload was based in New Zealand wasn’t it? Or is that just where the guy lived? If anything these websites just need to start blocking the US from accessing them like upload.to did.
    - http://kosso.co.uk kosso
      
      They had servers in Virginia, which was how the Feds got access to seize and arrest in the first place.
      
      This fact was the HUGE mistake that MU made. If the servers were not in the USA, MU would still be alive and well today – like RapidShare still is (in Switzerland)
    - Terran1102
      
      Upload.to is also blocked in Australia.
    - Wormlore
      
      Not in New Zealand.
      The founder lived (part-time) in NZ; The company was based in Hong-Kong; the servers were spread between Virginia (where they were seized) and some hosts like Cogent Communications and Carpathia Hosting.
    - Dildostopholes
      
      Kosso is very close to being right. Except they didn’t have US servers, they had a .com TLD which all get registered through Verisign, a US company based in VA.
    - http://kosso.co.uk kosso
      
      @Dildostopholes
      
      The servers were actually physically located in the USA, which how they gained access and then the resulting arrest warrants.
      
      Apparently, there were 900 or so of them.
      
      Here’s a list of the payments made to the host providers : https://plus.google.com/113619286206637523955/posts/BxLfRtxfEyA
    - Anonymous
      
      Look, the fact that some MegaUpload servers were in Virginia was just one excuse for the US to go after them. If it weren’t, then the US would just find some other way to do it. Secondly, with an international agreement like ACTA in place, you won’t need to have physical jurisdiction in the US in order to get f*ed over by the Feds. The international agreement will allow participating parties to go after (arrest, seize, extradite) those in member locations.
    - bastetx
      
      The Mega guys’ e.g Kim dotcom etc only had Perminent residence in NZ, the servers were based in Hong kong and Virginia [at capathia hosting, the same place a lot of US government servers are hosted I believe].
      Why host your share cloud in the US? when you run the risk of an open invitation shutdown to Uncle Sam and the SS, I cant begin to understand..
    - Ebony
      
      uploaded.to blocks us, filejungle blocks us also now fuck the fbi, pedophile mafiaa pieces of shit
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Uh, kosso…. Rapidshare has servers in the United States as well. Blocking the United States isn’t going to do anything but get rid of 75% of the paying users.
      
      Uploaded.to was stupid in the extreme to do that insanity and other filehosts that didn’t overreact like Fileserve/Filesonic did are eating their lunch now.
    - Mwhahaha
      
      Uhmmmm…. isn’t what’s on the servers known in legal terms as ‘evidence’?
    - Mister
      
      if that’ s what it takes, i agree, shut them out.
- Trouduc
  
  We will be able to attack the US gov, as they retain the megaupload payments. It’s so their fault, and have to accept concequences.
  - Trouduc
    
    Cogent Communications and Carpathia Hosting Should sell to users the right to keep datas. They will earn some Cash, and user may be able to save important datas, transfering back to their pcs.
    Warez will not pay fro this i think, as downlding would not be paid.
- Anon
  
  Did you even read the article? Pretty embarrassing for someone who claims the V mask.
- http://www.facebook.com/badassjedi John Robichau
  
  This all boils down to the feds wanting all of the money and assets, and probably roots back to kill.net and found connections to officials.
- BooBooGranniePhuck
  
  I’m not sure “destroying evidence” is their focus – the main point to consider is that MILLIONS of files did NOT infringe on anyone’s copywrong but the US Gestapo is a cunt hair away from deleting everything because the MAFIAA says so.
  
  That’s “justice” in the People’s Socialist Republic of America – it goes to the highest bidder. Well done, Hollywood!
  
  Ya know, I had a picture of my grandma’s funeral on MegaFatty’s site – I guess it killed a lot of MAFIAA jobs and nearly destroyed the “entertainment” industry as a whole. Thank fuck the US government acted accordingly! <3
  
  Stupid twats.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Right in one. I’ll say it again:
    
    They do NOT shut down a business that is off the internet solely because it is being used (or accused of being used) by the Mafia to ‘clean’ cash. They put the company into receivership, with a court appointed monitor, and keep it open so that the customers and the workers of said business are not hurt.
    
    Why the FUCK wasn’t that done here? It just doesn’t make any sense.
    - BooBooKittyBomb
      
      It only makes “sense” because MAFIAA dollars bought the right people. Isn’t that what usually happens? ;-)
      
      War on drugs, war on “terrorism,” war on “piracy,” war, war, war – America’s answer to everything and our ONLY remaining industry with a handful of globalist thugs at the helm. In other words, it’s business as usual. Bombs away! <3
  - The Evil Empire in 4D
    
    The message is don’t set up a business in America, it isn’t safe.
    
    Businesses are already closing, what will the dopey American govt do? Get everyone a job in fucking Hollywood?!? THICK CUNTS!
    - BooBooKittyPhuck
      
      “The message is don’t set up a business in America, it isn’t safe.”
      
      Exactly – it’s a very sneaky and indirect way of turning America into a Socialist nation. They’ve tried everything else and failed – high taxes, fiat currency, intrusive government, over-regulation, replacing free market capitalism with fascist corporatism, social agitation and upheaval of every manner, etc. Now, by forcing people to do business elsewhere, America will finally be a Marxist “utopia.” Stalin would be proud… <3
      
      "Businesses are already closing, what will the dopey American govt do?"
      
      They'll sit back and smile – this was the purpose all along. A few average Americans even know it – I believe the US government calls them "terrorists."
      
      "Get everyone a job in fucking Hollywood?!?"
      
      Well, considering the record / consistent profits Hollywood has made in the last few years, that would certainly be possible. Oh wait, I forgot – we have a "piracy problem." Like fuck they do – business has never been better.
      
      "THICK CUNTS!"
      
      Yeah, that's how I like 'em too – can't stand skinny broads who look like teenage boys hahaha…
- Guest
  
  According to the BBC, Yes. they made copies of relevant information but left the servers in situ, in the care of Cogent Communications and Carpathia Hosting.
  
  Nothing was removed.
  - Anonymous
    
    The hosting company is telling people NOT to phone them to try to get their files back when their company does not have physical access to the data. It is all encrypted and only Mega can access it and they are banned doing so.
    
    We can only guess how the FBI would have done this but I for one am a little doubtful they would walk in, copy out around 100TB of data, and then walk out again.
  - Anonymous
    
    What relevant information is the important question.
    They were given access to servers without any oversight, and then in a letter said its all going away unless you can pay for it and hey we took all your money.
    
    I’m sure they made copies of all sorts of copyrighted material that the content industry made sure were there, the downside is I doubt they bothered to note how many files they downloaded vs the total number of files they assumed were not infringing.
    This would be completely stacking the deck to cherry pick the things to make your case while leaving the absolute appearance that they will not preserve the entire picture of the site…
    Good or bad is up to a jury to decide, but to only give them small fragments of pictures that bolster the inflated case is wrong.
- Mad Maxine
  
  The copyright mafioso keep equating the download of a file to stealing, as if it were physical property. I guess this means if the government destroys tons of legitimate files belonging to “we the people”, it is the equivalent of them burning down all of our houses. If they want to treat files like physical property, then we get to as well. I hope the fall out from this crushes the copyright industry and government. More than likely Kim Dotcom will make a deal to save his own ass and this won’t even go to trial. Those with all the power get to dictate the rules after all.
  
  I think all citizens need to stop caring about which party a politician is affiliated with, and start looking at their ties to big money instead. Not just their ties, but whether they ARE the big money, something that is a total conflict of interest. Most of those in parliament are rich business men. It’s why they care more about their own interests than those of the people they’re sworn to serve. Just look at how the banking fiasco was handled to get some idea of how corrupt the political system has become. To top it off we also have lobbying, a good idea at one time but something that’s become completely twisted and corrupt thanks to greed. We need to get money out of congress!
  
  So when it comes time to vote, use your brain and pick a candidate who is proven to not be on the take. You know, someone whom doesn’t have their own business interests to protect. If possible, get our own regular every day people into congress if and whenever we can. It’s the only way the interests of the people, we the 99%, will ever be taken seriously again. Otherwise it will continue to be the rich 1% ruling us all, selling out our future and the future of our decedents until laws have become so ass-backwards and warped that we might as well call ourselves surfs and slaves again.
  - BooBooKittyPhuck
    
    “So when it comes time to vote, use your brain and pick a candidate who is proven to not be on the take. You know, someone whom doesn’t have their own business interests to protect. If possible, get our own regular every day people into congress if and whenever we can.”
    
    That would be Libertarians like Dr. Ron Paul – it’s a pity America is too stupid to elect someone who isn’t a lawyer or in the MAFIAA’s pocket. We bitch and moan but elect the same corrupt Democrats and Republicans year after year. That’s why I don’t vote – the idiotic masses ALWAYS cancel the rest of us out.
    
    Want to make a difference and send a clear message? Stay home on election day – they can’t install corrupt puppets if nobody votes.
    
    “It’s the only way the interests of the people, we the 99%, will ever be taken seriously again.”
    
    I’m afraid the only way we’ll do that is if we march on Washington – where we will be met with guns pointed between our eyes. Let’s not kid ourselves – America is a police state under the pretext of “terrorism.” Ya know, the “patriot” act. We, the average American citizens, have NO voice. None. Democracy? Freedom of speech? Not in this former Republic…
    
    “Otherwise it will continue to be the rich 1% ruling us all,”
    
    I have no problem with the job-creating class (or “rich,” if you prefer) offering some creative input – but we need to restore the system of “checks and balances” which has been replaced with insane corporatism, excessive regulation / taxation, lobbying and wasteful horseshit…
    
    “selling out our future and the future of our decedents until laws have become so ass-backwards and warped that we might as well call ourselves surfs and slaves again.”
    
    Well, as far as the present regime is concerned, surfs and slaves are EXACTLY what average Americans are – go to school and learn absolutely important, pay for everything (and get yourself in debt if you can’t), question nothing spewed on your High Definition indoctrination box, accept everything you read on the pages of your daily Pravda and, for fuck’s sake, keep up with the Kardashians!!!
    
    Call me a fatalist, but I for one can’t wait for the meteors to strike. Fuck this.
    End rant.
    - BooBooKittyPhuck
      
      absolutely important = absolutely NOTHING important
    - Mad Maxine
      
      Well said, friend. Well said indeed.
      
      PS: Loved the “high definition indoctrination box” line. It’s so true lol.
- Predator
  
  FREE HANA BESHARA!
  FREE BRADLEY MANING
  FREE KIM DOTCOM
- Anon
  
  A lot of sharers have files on there they may want them deleted. If you put files on a site like mega and have no backup that was silly. Most will have backups. Important files are on many lockers not just one.
Greatkitsune

I am taking the fucking gov’t to court if I lose all my data!! I have a lot of personal information on there.. Photos that I will never be able to get again! Photos that have been destroyed due to age of family members that are gone…
- mic
  
  wow, that just plain sucks…
- Cdddo
  
  Well you are a fucking moron if you use cloud services to store your personal pictures. As a backup, sure, but as the sole source of your personal data? You deserve what you get.
  - Mark Henderson
    
    Because right now is the appropriate time to be attacking the victim. Way to focus on the issue at hand.
    - mike
      
      he should be “attacking the victim” because the victim was a complete moron. This is a PERFECT example of why you never put
      
      (a)personal
      (b)sole-copy
      (c)non-encrypted
      
      data on a public server
    - Guest
      
      @Mike
      quote “he should be “attacking the victim” because the victim was a complete moron. This is a PERFECT example of why you never put
      
      (a)personal
      (b)sole-copy
      (c)non-encrypted
      
      data on a public server ”
      
      Since you are oblivious to how the cloud service works and to ignorant and arrogant to understand it I will point out the fact that it is not so much a “public” server as you can cut off public access to your files by clicking an option to keep your files private. What if the person for got their flash drive at home with the cloud service they still have access to their files from any computer any where in the world. There has been a push for cloud computing from apple and other types of service including for gaming they start to stream games to tablets with a cloud service. My point is that putting your files on a cloud cyber locker is not moronic
    - JMZ
      
      @Guest
      
      Yes, its absolutely moronic if you don’t have any other copy of the data you are keeping on the cloud and if the data is extremely important to you or your business. Its like giving all your important personal documents to a stranger without keeping any copies with yourself and then crying a river after the stranger lost everything.
  - Jóhannes G.
    
    if you live in a risky neighborhood and someone steals all the stuff in your apartment because you forgot to lock the door, should you be held responsible?
    - Bob Johnson
      
      Well your insurance company would probably call not locking the door negligence and thus not pay out the claim.
      
      just saying.
    - Dtrdtrdr
      
      yet another great and utterly pointless excuse for allowing sites like megasupload to exist…how many people fit the scenario you just described? 5 on the entire planet? probably less. these excuses to perpetuate theft of peoples digital property are becoming more and more clutching at straws as time goes by. ha ha ha ha ha
    - Glib
      
      Obviously, yes. It’d be your fault you’re an idiot. Sure, the thieves were opportunistic, but you WERE the idiot that basically said “I don’t mind if you come in”.
    - Helpful Guest
      
      I would say it’s more akin to leaving your personal belongings in an unlocked locker at the gym and then being upset for your stuff being stolen rather than your house. But even in your situation, it is not the victims fault, but it is foolish and should be expected.
    - Ricardo
      
      No, it’s more like living in a risky neighborhood with a bunch of drug dealers, and then the cops burn down the entire neighborhood, without allowing you to retrieve any of your possessions, so they can burn the drugs and put those drug dealers out of business for the time being.
    - Ftfyfty
      
      no, wait, it’s more like this…..
      
      …. or maybe that …..
      
      ….my analogy is better thans yours…….
    - Anon
      
      If I approached you with a gun. I asked you to bend over and pull your pants down, so I could fuck you. Would you die? Or would you take it in the ass like a good boy?
    - Resin
      
      No, it’s all like Nazis. Everything here is Nazis. There, I invoked Godwin’s law. Can we stop now?
    - Nope
      
      Many people would say yes. And this is one of those people. Arguing against someone’s misconceptions – especially on the internet – is going to get you nowhere.
  - harry krishna
    
    whether it’s “moronic” or not has nothing to do with issue. in fact, direction of computing has been “cloud” for quite some time.
    - Harry
      
      Thanks to your god, Steve Jobs.
      It is TOTALLY moronic to upload sensative files to a hosting service.
      If you need a backup, buy a portable hard drive!
      You idiots who chant “cloud is the new direction” deserve to be slaughtered in raids like this.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Harry, you aren’t thinking here. A external hard drive has the data on it (unless refreshed in some manner) fade after as little as six months.
      
      Frankly, I would rather put my encrypted files on a filehost somewhere than keep them on an external hard drive in my home.
    - Guest
      
      Christopher, you aren’t thinking here actually. You obviously don’t know how to technology.
  - Anonymous
    
    While one can state that Greatkitsune should have had copies of anything truly vital or irreplaceable on say a portable hard drive or flash drive or something many people including myself use the cloud to back up files or as a way to store an active project so that I can use it on several computers at once. For example I use another cloud service to temporarily store receipts. I scan them using my smart phone and then upload them to another service where I can then access them at my leisure and not have to worry about losing a hardcopy receipt.
    
    I use this method for both personal bookeeping and for work expenses which can be significant on a longer project. If my cloud service was suddenly taken down while I was on a project, I could lose thousands of dollars in expensable receipts.
    
    I can stop erasing the scans from my smart phone as a backup to the backup until I know that that data resides someplace else safe but until this whole debacle I believed like many others that a backed-up hard drive in a nice data center somewhere was as safe or safer than anything I had at home so I didn’t always rush to back it up. Now I will have to back up my back up.
    
    I did collaborate with some other people on a project recently where almost everything was kept in one of these data lockers out in the cloud. It was a convenient place to store the work and for all of us to edit and contribute various parts of the project. Yes, I am fairly certain that the project leader was keeping backups of the various parts but if that service had suddenly been shut down, we would lose the latest work and it would have taken quite some time to reorganize and restart. The losses would have been severe.
    
    Yes, someone should not keep all of their digital eggs in one basket. That’s a hard rule that most of us have learned through bitter experience. That does not change the culpability of those who caused this problem.
    
    Personally, I think that perhaps it is not entirely a bad thing. Many innocent consumers are going to get screwed over badly and they are going to blame the American entertainment industry for this. Good. While Greatkitsune may deserve what happened to him, the American entertainment industry does deserve the backlash they will receive from each of these stupid little stunts they pull.
    - Harry
      
      “If my cloud service was suddenly taken down while I was on a project, I could lose thousands of dollars in expensable receipts. ”
      
      Heretic3e7, if you are relying on these hosting services to keep your business afloat, you are a douche. Get a clue to stupid fuck.
- Prick
  
  What a numbskull. Don’t tell me you didn’t know that Megaupload didn’t provide any security to your data whatsoever. They told you to maintain backups of data at all times as they couldn’t guarantee any level of data retention, didn’t they?
  
  If your photos were so valuable, you would have bought an external hdd and kept backups like every smart man. Of course somehow I get the feeling that you lost nothing and are just making stories up to incite TF readers.
  - Mark Henderson
    
    You and Cdddo should be ashamed of yourselves. This is not the time to be stringing up victims and making assumptions, which clearly YOU are guilty of. You have no way of knowing whether or not Greatkitsune had anything on there or not, and, considering the gravity of the current state of affairs regarding our compromised consumer security, I’d say you have no reason to say what you said. It was arrogant, belligerent, and inconsiderate. Have you no decency? What’s wrong with you?
    - Harry
      
      Mark Henderson, another complete clueless douchebag.
  - Anon
    
    Honestly, I have friends that were considering putting their family photos/records on MegaUpload they are totally in the dark about IT and thought the cloud was a marvellous idea. They thought that the whole family around the globe would have access to the records/photos, which had been collected over about 30 years, and as long as they paid the monthly bill it would be there forever. Then they asked me what I thought. Needless to say they didn’t do it after our little chat. Imagine if they hadn’t had someone like me to talk to and those are the people that have found themselves in this situation.
    - Ffuyygyi
      
      ‘after our lttle chat’ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
      
      what you said is another pathetic analogy. were your ‘friends’ going to shred the photos ‘collected over about 30 years’ after uploading them? if not, they would have lost nothing at all…..
    - cAnon
      
      I liked your Posting Name!!!
- Vladik2110
  
  If you have information that needs to be backed up. Get an external harddrive. Don’t trust all that cloud thingy. It’s good to have a copy of your files on cloud to access from elsewhere, but it should not be just one backup copy.
- Traffic Light
  
  At the end of the day it’s all just 0′s and 1′s.
- F The USA
  
  The funny thing is that in the end you’re all going to vote for Obama again. Because it feels so nice to get f*cked by Obama and his buddy Eric Holder. Looks like we’ll have these criminals in office for 4 more years, but then if you vote for them you deserve them. The only thing I hope for is that they run the US totally into the ground, so that it loses the power to screw up the rest of the world too.
  - Ddfytfty
    
    what the f does it have to do with obama? you people that blame anything you don’t like on whoever is president at the time make me puke. 99.9999% of all things the government does have nothing to do with the president. they are started by and forced through by lobbyists backed by billions in business money used to bribe a majority of those that bother to vote on whatever it is. that’s all it takes. did they not teach you ‘democracy’ at school?
    - Anonymous
      
      Obummer is the *ss who signed ACTA SECRETLY, while trying to keep it away from Congress (our plutocracy is based on the idea of checks and balances). While you’re right about everything being backed by lobbyists with money, we unfortunately have a spineless president who loves nothing more than to pander to anyone with money.
  - Anon
    
    It’s people like you who keep us down in the world. I’m clearly not speaking in behalf of the U.S. Just in general, you dwell in stupidity that preoccupies everything that you do in your daily life. You’re a borderline terrorist, and I mean this before the term even was raped by the media.
    
    This is why no one can progress anywhere. Because people like you exist even in the highest of levels of polemic activity.
    - F The USA
      
      Like I said, you can have Obama all you want. Just stay the fuck out of the business of other countries. You soon will have to anyway when the USA goes bankrupt, in that respect Obama IS a good choice as he will see to it that happens sooner rather than later.
      
      In fact it’s people like you, who are not willing to stand up against the politicians who ARE selling you out, that are the problem. Now if only you were only a problem for your own country, but you’re not, you are fucking up the entire world with the leaders that you choose.
      
      Have a spine, stand up for your rights when politicians sell you out to the highest bidder! Maybe if you told your current easily corruptable president to f*ck off, the next one might think twice before selling you out.
      
      Suppose that’s wishful thinking in a country that calls itself the “land of the free” but doesn’t even have a real democracy.
    - http://profiles.google.com/artfulldragon TL Dragon
      
      @ F The USA
      
      Listen, I am sorry the leaders in whatever bitch ass shithole fucktard country you live in enjoys taking it up the ass from the US and it’s cash, but take your whiney BS and cram it. Your butthurt retard rantings only serve to illustrate that you, and whatever government serves you will forever be our bitch.
      
      Who don’t choose a damn thing. We are presented with evil’s and allowed the privilege of trying to pick the lesser of them to govern us.
      
      So superdouche what is YOUR excuse?? The US is spreading it’s genital herpes all over your countries ass and you can’t do shit about it. We the PEOPLE of this country have no safe harbor. We are screwed, there is no “other” government to run home to for protection. It’s extremely difficult to revolt with the all seeing eye of the opressor is ever upon you. I’m pretty sure we also have more stupid assholes per capita than many other countries. Jersey Shore and Teen Mom are all the evidence one needs to support that claim.
      
      All you bitchin little sissies, where the fuck are ya?? You want the US out of your business, give us a fucking hand maybe….oh wait no you can’t can you? Because your own governments are no better.
      
      We’re pulling your hair smacking your ass and you like it doncha bitch??
      
      Cut the shit special fred. Stop coating your corn hole with lube wash your nasty ass hands off and link arms with the American PEOPLE in the effort to end this shit.
      
      My countrymen are some of the best and brightest the word has to offer. My government does not reflect that, and it shames me greatly. American legion of anon’s are still working to counter this stupid shit so hows about you get up and crawl out of our ass about it?
    - F The USA
      
      @TL Dragon
      
      I only have an issue with people claiming that Obama is not part of the problem, and those who claim to do something but still vote the people like him who sell you out to the highest bidder into office.
      
      The lesser of two evils, maybe? Not that I think it would make any bit of difference which of the two main ones you have in office. But did you know that there are 3rd party candidates? If half of the f*cking USA would wake up and vote another party into office things might shake up.
      
      And yeah, I am from a smaller country which has no chance to stand up against the USA. If that makes you happy, that your country can bully every one else, I think that’s sad. We are fighting but it’s hard with the USA fucking us over all the time. At least we still have some freedoms and a democracy that offers more than just the choice between 2 evils.
  - Anonymous
    
    I voted for McCain. However in the US we have this quirky electoral system – to be honest I have no idea how it works. All I know is, no matter how many times I vote for someone other than Obummer, the Democratic party will get all of the NY votes. Depressing.
    - SomeGuy
      
      Uh…you know if McCain got in we’d probably have troops in Iran right now, right?
  - jaydee42
    
    I’m sorry to say but people in the US are fucked but are to stupid to realize it. Democracy is dead and has been for decades, the American voter is irrelevant as proven with the tampering of voting machines going back to Bush. Funny how American boasted about the right to bare arms and use them against their government if it was out of control are now so quiet that they know it’s out of control. I wonder if these same people will scream fowl when other countries and more importantly the people living within them fight back against the use of corrupt American laws? In all honest I would have had more respect if Kim Dotcom had of taken a stand against the police trying to impose US law in New Zealand but it looks like he is as greedy as the industries behind his take down. Not saying he should not of made money but the list of cars seized show he wanted to make a shit load of money and that is just greed.
    I would hope the lose of any data would result in a class action suit against the US government but who knows if that would work as the US has a history of not being held accountable for their destruction in the past. Why is the world so afraid of the US, their Military record sucks, their economy suck, and they have so little to offer the world.
- BooBooGitmoPhuck
  
  “I am taking the fucking gov’t to court if I lose all my data!!”
  
  Good luck with that one – you’ll be called a “terrorist” and offered a “vacation” to Gitmo. Bear in mind, you’re dealing with the Copywrong Gestapo. ©
  
  “I have a lot of personal information on there..”
  
  Correction: you had.
  Question: what in fuck were you thinking?!
  
  “Photos that I will never be able to get again! Photos that have been destroyed due to age of family members that are gone…”
  
  That really takes it in the ass, lad – I truly feel for you poor fuckers who did not backup your personal data on external drives. Considering the capacity, low cost and convenience, I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t…
  
  Hey when you get to Gitmo, send us a postcard! :-*
  - jaydee42
    
    there is right and wrong in the world, I think you missing who is in the wrong here. The US government should be sued and be forced to pay millions, not likely to happen but is still the way it is. Cloud lockers are for storing data, what ever kind of data it is. If the any organization is responsible for the loss of that data then they need to be held financially responsible, if it were you or I we would be held accountable so why not the US government? When a place is raided and everything is seized owners have a process to go through to get their property back, why should this be different unless the US government is making a statement on cloud lockers?
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Yeah, because none of us keep manual backups anymore… Lawl. Seriously, the cloud isn’t perfect. Dunno how people got in this whole to start with…
- Alt
  
  It isn’t the could that fails. It’s the government.
  - Gclev3
    
    It isn’t the government. It is the Executive branch of the government.
- Guest
  
  It was pretty perfect until it was shut down? No?
  - Prick
    
    Nothing is for ever you see. Companies go bankrupt. Companies shutdown unexpectedly. Companies dupe stock holders and run away with the money. Company owners get arrested. The possibilities are endless. If you put 100% trust behind a company, you are an idiot.
    - FuzzyDuck
      
      Except that when companies go bankrupt or close their service, they tend to give a fair amount of notice to take your personal data out before it’s too late.
      
      Thanks to the US government no-one got such notice. The US administration don’t care about innocent victims of the Megaupload raid, but then they’ve been killing innocent civilians in the thousands in all their illegal wars so why would they now care about people losing files?
      
      It’s no surprise more and more people hate the USA.
    - Aga
      
      Guess all of us should start taking our money out of the banks then. Who knows when they might arbitrarily close the one where we have all of our savings after they find out they served for money laundry as well.
    - Prick
      
      That’s why I keep my money in government banks. I don’t think the government is going away anywhere anytime soon.
    - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
      
      Or your government, obviously…
TheS4ndm4n

Theres a lot of cases where government/police has kept servers impounded, even long after the accused was acquitted. When you get the servers back, they are so outdated that they are worthless.
The reason behind this was conserving possible evidence in case of an appeal.

But now they are going to destroy data, before the trail has even started?
It seems to me that the motive here is the destruction of megaupload and other sites like it, rather then to serve justice.
- nyao
  
  This has nothing to do with the govt though. The datacenter wants to get paid and will wipe them and re-provision to new paying clients.. It’s a business and as such it’s not gonna let them sit around and cost them money to maintain while a lawsuit goes on. I’d have already reprovisioned them already to be honest.
  - http://twitter.com/CheapassFiction AeliusBlythe
    
    The decision of Cogent Communications and Carpathia Hosting to delete the data of an unpaid customer (Megaupload) is their own.
    
    However.
    
    The government, if it has the intention of pursuing the case (which it obviously does) is under the obligation to do everything it possibly can to preserve the evidence. It would do the same in ANY other criminal investigation.
    
    If they do nothing they are derelict in their duty to uphoald due process. (Ha. Ha. OK, I just laughed as I wrote that— I know, I know, due process has nothing to do with this case, but to allow this to happen would prove that there is not even an ATTEMPT at due process.)
    
    If they do nothing and PROCEED with the trial…. to carry on with trial and judgement despite NON-EXISTANT evidence, well… there is nothing that would excuse that.
    - http://kosso.co.uk kosso
      
      Oddly enough, I was thinking along these lines : that IF the data is deleted, then there’s a possibility that this could work in MU’s favour due to the destruction of evidence, making it impossible for MU to defend itself.
      
      The Feds say they copied ‘some data’, but not all from the Carpathia/Cogent servers. But what about the defendants?
      
      This action could possibly get the case thrown out of court.
      
      Naturally, this doesn’t save the innocent, legitimate users’ files though.
    - Anon
      
      If I were the government, I would release the servers to the datacenter but keep the hard drives. The government is trying to negotiate a similar deal I think.
    - Blue_tongue
      
      All they have to do is unfreeze sufficient funds from the Megaupload accounts to maintain the servers.
  - Anonymous
    
    Well, actually, when the government froze ALL MegaUpload assets, it contributed (fully) to the current situation. Regardless of whether the US is right or wrong, or whether MegaUpload’s actions are legal or illegal, it cannot be said that doing the following is just and right:
    
    Freezing ALL assets before determining guilt. Without assets, any company can have a difficult time with bail, mounting an adequate defense, even having enough food to eat or a roof over your head until trial (which can take several years).
  - anyonecanpost
    
    But the data in the servers IS proof to be used in court by both sides! (alleged infringing use versus alleged legal use)
    Problem is that it seems the servers are not property of megaupload, but the hosters!
    So what to do now? Seize those third-party servers until case is closed even though they’re not responsible? No? Let them resume work? If so, it’d be like letting the owner of the robbed shop clean everything and erase all the fingerprints that could lead both to prosecute or make someone innocent.
    
    It just doesn’t feel right, and I think the hoster’s response shows they’re very scared about all this.
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OMGWTFBBQ

Good. It’s ridiculous to shut down a whole cloud to investigate how their file removal works. Everyone gettin hurt. Developers losing their apps (or dead links on forums), Music and video artists, family photos. Paying customers that are basically owning a hard drive online. Millions of peoples hard drives confiscated. Cloud service reputation gone. The damage they done to IT, by going about it this way is bigger then any file sharing ever did to the small entertainment industry. I know i’m not putting my stuff on any US servers or US domain anymore. If the Feds think they might have done something wrong (or not strictly by the letter of the law) they just kill the whole cloud. That’s like taring down a building with peoples furniture still in it because the landlord committed fraud.
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Jason

The truth is in the below link, thanks DoJ for illegally destroying our files on Thursday:

http://pastebin.com/iquHfjBa
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Ricardo

We can only hope that this is as far as they can possibly go. The blatant disregard of the rights of millions of people is repulsive.

So, if all the files get destroyed, how can legit customers back up their claims against the court? Will they government just be like “You can’t prove anything!”?

Kinda a scary thought.
- Anonymous
  
  It occurs to me now there is another very important reason they need the servers deleted.
  To remove any chance of Mega being able to show how much content wasn’t infringing.
  - GroundWalker
    
    Yes, but wouldn’t it also work the other way? It just feels like it would be kinda counter productive to remove the very things you’re making a fuss about from their servers. (…or rather, letting them be removed.)
    - Anonymous
      
      They have their records of what they claim to have downloaded form the servers.
      I’m sure they have even made backups of that data on the servers, but they need to make sure MEGA doesn’t have access to anything that might prove the US case is bogus.
    - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
      
      @That_Anonymous_Coward not much of a court case if the defense doesn’t have the same info as the prosecution…Aren’t they obligated to fully disclose everything?
  - Anonymous
    
    That’s a really good point @That_Anonymous_Coward.
    
    If the deletion is allowed to continue, it might be the basis for later appeal (destruction of evidence).
    
    By not unfreezing the necessary funds, the US government could be shooting themselves in the foot. Idiots.
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http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

Due process could have prevented this. I can’t recall the US seizing the assets, freezing everything and wiping the data from hedge/banking companies that were clearly caught abusing the financial system. But no, a guy offers a good legitimate service and because it might be used for infringing purposes he gets Guantanamo and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of legit users lose their data.

Those, my friends, are the United States of America, bastion of liberty, land of the free. Bitter irony.
- Anonymous
  
  More along the lines of a bank that holds the money for Bill gates, and we’ll pretend the government decides he’s in league with Kim Dotcom, so they seize Bill Gates assets, which are in that bank, PLUS they seize the bank, AND all the assets of every other innocent person that deposited money in that bank. Now, they are going to destroy all evidence that will exonerate ALL parties involved. Guilty based on what evidence??
  
  So, only an idiot would put his money in a bank, because there just might be an alleged criminal banking there….. (that’s for the people that called users uploading to megaupload idiots for depositing their personal files there.)
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no one gives a shit about the people or the legal uses of Mega. UMG are the ones behind this and the law enforcement agencies that aided them need to be hauled up over what they did, why they did it and what they are going to do. how can Mega pay bills to prevent this from happening, when the Feds have frozen assets? makes no sense. the Feds are making a very bad case worse themselves! will people use cloud services for personal stuff in future? i hope not! perhaps other services will realise the risk to them.
Planet

“If the United States fails at helping protect and restore Megaupload consumer data in an expedient fashion, it will have a chilling effect on cloud computing in the United States and worldwide.”

What a blatant misunderstanding!

The US will not fail at “helping” — it will succeed at the desired end “a chilling effect on cloud computing.”

It’s as simple as that. “The law” and “rights” are no barrier at all.
- Blue_tongue
  
  Cloud computing is the the best interests of government investigations. They can serve an NSL on a cloud vendor, and the suspect never even knows that he is under investigation. The only possible problem is encryption, but I suspect the alphabet soup of agencies can handle most, if not all, commercial encryption.
  - Glib
    
    No, they really can’t. Even rudimentary encryption would take years to circumvent. Though, they would probably just label you a terrorist and keep you forever anyways.
  - Anonymous
    
    No, as Glib has it even rudimentary encryption cannot be brute-forced by any assembly of supercomputers deliverable under the normal technical paradigm. It would take, if every supercomputer in the world was linked in parallell, longer time to crack even 128-bit AES than it will take for the universe to achieve nominal heat death.
    
    And that’s not guessing, either.
    
    In “cracking” encryption what you really do is that you try to lift the password. If all you have to do is run the dictionary at an encryption then you can get through quickly. But if the key is a 12-digit plus with high randomness, forget it.
    
    Alternative methods include installing a keylogger. No need to break the encryption if you already have the key. Encryption works, in this regard, much like an unbreakable lock. If you can get yourself a copy of the key the lock will still open. Otherwise not.
    - Tfftuy
      
      ‘Alternative methods include installing a keylogger.’ wtf?
      
      let’s take a troll down going off at a tangent lane….or is it cut and paste way….or maybe brain dump crescent….
Ball Juggler

What the fuck?! where the hell is the Due process in this whole thing?… the guy hasn’t’ even gone to court and they already going to cut his head?… fucking terrorists.

FREE BRADLEY MANNING!
- The Evil Empire in 4D
  
  This is what happens when you let corporations run a country, you end up with a sham of democracy that is really verging on Fascist/Communist dictatorship.
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Anonymous

One thing that is true to say is that all the time that the US Government has Mega under a criminal investigation with their assets seized then they are also directly responsible for safe-guarding all property and data from damage or destruction.

So if the US Government willingly let this data be destroyed then they are also liable for this destruction and all resulting costs suffered by the users. They had therefore better pay the bills, or let users recover their files, or they stand to be sued for many millions of dollars due to their criminal neglect.

Well for anyone who is concerned about losing their important files then I would recommend some stress relief. Blow something up…
http://www.devastatingexplosions.com/

Just imagine it is the FBI and DoJ property and you will soon feel much better.
- Guest
  
  try billions at least…
http://kosso.co.uk kosso

Absolutely bloody disgusting. This is wilful destruction of evidence. It’s like burning down a crime scene. This would make it completely and utterly impossible impossible for MU to defend themselves against the indictment.

This letter says they ‘may’ wipe the data, but does it force them to?

Surely, if Carpathia and Cogent actually wanted to get paid some day, they would keep the data, just in case the trial eventually goes in favour of MU. Wiping a few hundred hard disks will seal their fate.

If this happens, this is going to make a lot of people absolutely furious at the way the US Attorney and Federal Government has conducted this case.
- The Evil Empire in 4D
  
  They are destroying the evidence because it would prove Kim Dotcom is innocent. Far too many wealthy people want him raped in jail.
  
  People must be mad to do business in the USA now, it seems they will do anything to get what they want. Iran is looking better than the USA now for freedom.
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I would like to point out that if the data is indeed wiped, none of the infringing content will be wiped out. It still survives via bit-torrent and other services.

Files that are only shared by a few people, like family photos and personal stuff will be the only stuff permanently wiped.
- Anonymous
  
  Nail, meet Hammer. Well done, Sir.
  
  And it only underscores what I’ve been saying all along – every piece of pro-copyright legislation ever introduced has harmed one target and one alone – the innocent consumer. Pirates are by and large never affected.
  
  Which means we just found 50 million people angry as all hell over the heavy-handed unselective approach taken by the US government on behalf of the copyright lobby.
  
  The fact that this “operation” has cost the FBI vast resources it could have spent better in efforts to track down drug smugglers, gun runners, murderers, kidnappers, terrorists and pedophiles isn’t going to escape people either.
  - Tugfyugfuy
    
    ‘drug smugglers, gun runners, murderers, kidnappers, terrorists and pedophiles’ what are you on? by the same argument, the cops shouldn’t spend money stopping people burglaring houses, speeding, or anything else you consider less worse.
    
    i bet if the it was YOU losing your income due to piracy you would consider it worth pursuing.
    - Anonymous
      
      To use your own analogies against you…
      
      If your car is in a shop getting serviced, and the cops raid that shop for whatever reason, do they get to keep and destroy your car merely because it was in for an oil change?
      
      If I take my computer into a shop and the owner gets arrested for fraud, do the authorities have any claim on my property?
      
      The answer to both questions is ‘Of course not’.
      
      The authorities and Big Media keep telling us file sharing is no different than stealing. If that is the case then they have to apply the rest of the rules was well. They need to make provisions to return the legitimate data, just as if this happened in the real world.
      
      If they think Kim Dotcom is a bad guy then by all means arrest him. That doesn’t mean they get to wipe data from legitimate users.
      
      This wasn’t about justice. EVERY single ‘illegal’ file is still out there on torrent sites and other download service. Every single one. This was about setting an example to others.
      
      The only people seriously harmed by this are the people with personal files and other stuff that they had on Megaupload as backup or as a distribution service.
    - Me Ted
      
      Could your analogies be any weaker? You should really do yourself a favour and refrain from ever posting on here…under any alias. You’re only coming off as a fool.
    - Anonymous
      
      Actually, as a US citizen, I would be more concerned about being able to leave my house without worrying about getting shot, mugged, or raped than I would be about someone downloading an illegal copy of my book.
      
      I think it’s pretty disgusting that there are so many violent crimes going on in New York, and yet every New York City district attorney’s office has their own copyright infringement squad containing at least half a dozen detectives.
      
      While I have lost money to piracy, it would still make me sleep better at night not worrying about the lives of the people I care about.
    - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
      
      What income have they lost, exactly?
      
      http://www.iipa.com/pressreleases/2011CopyrightIndustriesPressRelease.PDF
      
      Looks like they’re not losing a penny.
      
      Or do you really believe that they could have made so much more had people not been pirating on the internet? Because that’s a flawed argument, and if they really wanted to, they could have innovated by now instead of tilting the windmills.
- http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
  
  That’s an excellent point. Looks like they still haven’t figured out that piracy doesn’t take the original copy…just makes identical duplicates. We can do this forever, making copies of copies of copies. way to go, retards.
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http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

If you’re NOT in the USA, here’s a rough draft (that you should change to suit your own circumstances):-

Dear [name of your MP, MEP, etc],

URGENT Request Re USA Seizure of the Megaupload Websites

Please ask our government to protest against the USA’s recent seizure of the Megaupload filesharing site and demand the site be released without further delay and without ANY loss of data. For further up-to-date information, please see
https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-user-data-soon-to-be-destroyed-120130/

The Megaupload sites had 180 million users worldwide and the vast majority of people have now had their uploads unlawfully confiscated in an over-zealous attempt to protect an industry (ie the US recording and movie industries together) which has stubbornly refused to embrace the highly popular new technology of the 21st Century – namely the internet.

I respectfully request you also ask our government to seriously consider using a very real threat of severe sanctions against the USA if they fail or otherwise refuse to reinstate Megaupload to full capacity, and to compensate all uploaders for their loss and inconvenience caused by the USA’s unfair and immoral actions.

Sincerely,

[Your name,
+ your FULL postal address]
TelezarZ

If the United States fails at helping protect and restore Megaupload consumer data in an expedient fashion, it will have a chilling effect on cloud computing in the United States and worldwide”

It will more have a chilling effect in the US ! Because everyone will move their server to Russia, Ukraine, etc etc (overseas)
What the people with cloud computing project learn from the Megaupload bust is, Get The Fuck Out of The US !!!
- eilif
  
  Exactly, people should leave the sinking ship as soon as possible..
  
  but after everyone leaves USA hosts, i wonder how their goverment would react. Probly even more ridicilous things may happen in order for them to get those people back.
Anonymous

My Government can go to hell !!!
Hear that Assholes you all deserve to be tarred and feathered.
- PelouzeTF
  
  why don’t you move to another country ?
  - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
    
    Like New Zealand?
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http://twitter.com/akuma_river Brandelyn

Holy shit. This is going to a MAJOR lawsuit plus a war on the internets. How is it that the feds aren’t going to foot the bill or something? When they seize property (like servers) they go to their warehouse to examine and take apart. Megaupload shouldn’t HAVE to pay the fees to keep the data alive. The feds are supposed to do that. This is destruction of evidence.
- Nate
  
  Taxpayers should not have to pay a criminal organization’s bills
  - Ed
    
    Yeah, but taxpayers have always paid the FBI’s bills. What’s your point?
Peter Fox

… Am I the only one who wants this data to be destroyed? You do realize how many people have uploaded infringing content to that site, right? And the last thing any of them want is their data in the hands of the federal government.
- Guest
  
  Do you realize that Federal Government already made backups of the servers?
- Anonymous
  
  That’s nice, I want MY videos back. The ones I made with MY equipment of MY children’s milestones! They’re already scanning the servers to figure out who has infringing content so they can prosecute. The rest of us should get our property back!
ryan

fuck the u.s. government. i am so tired of these assholes. they think they can do anything but they are destroying the world. i am so ashamed to live in such a corrupt tyranny run by a bunch of liars and crooks.
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It is absolutely disturbing that many people might end up losing all their data and works for the sake of stopping copyright infringement. And its all done without due process.

The takedown of Megaupload does an excellent job at validating the dangers of SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA. So much collateral damage, stilfes innovation, does not stop piracy, and it all happens without due process.
- Will
  
  This case shows the dangers of trusting the cloud
- PelouzeTF
  
  Gotta love the “stifles innovation” that always gets thrown in the mix (along with cries of CENSORSHIP!!!!!)
  
  Nah, its where will I download all the free shit I’ve been watching ? ….or how can I make money uploading now that the cyberlockers aren’t paying ?
  - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
    
    You’re the only one saying that.
    - PelouzeTF
      
      not really
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Jo

Look, Megaupload never claimed it was the most safe place to store your files. This is a good lesson to everyone that the internet is not a free for all. Its a tough one, but deleting everything is the only option.
- Anonymous
  
  What’s interesting is that due to copyright enforcement some 50 million people are now mad as hell. Very very few of whom choose to blame “pirates” for their misfortune.
  
  Instead the common citizen rightly assigns the blame to the idiots and gormless morons who decided that those 50 million were unimportant collateral in the fight against “piracy”.
  
  Everytime something like this happens I’m reminded of the old adage of how dictatorships always become the architects of their own destruction.
  - Fugfyugy
    
    do you honestly believe that there are 50 million people that are going to lose pictures of their baby or whatever it is? come on! these people are afraid of one thing and on thing only – losing the ability to download movies etc at no cost at some point in the future – like losing your source of drugs – after all, what is left on te internet when you take that away?
    - Me Ted
      
      I realize that yours is a life of depression and utter futility when you feel that the single greatest weapon against tyranny and fascism is simply a cache for stolen property. In fact I now understand why you’ve taken such a backward stance on this subject. You can’t help it. It’s really not your fault. You’ve probably only used the web for porn. It all makes sense now. I pity you.
      
      You should do yourself a favour however – especially if you’re an American – and take a serious look at legislation that’s been passed in the US over the last 10-15 years to subvert the citizenry’s privacy and constitutional rights. It’s sad really. Think of everyone who’s ever made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that those freedoms wouldn’t be trounced only to have them taken away by the same corrupt few. It’s tragic really.
    - Guest
      
      Go trolling elsewhere corporate troll. Nobody care about your fake hired opinion.
- http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
  
  Here’s another option: NOT deleting everything, and going through the data with a fine toothed comb to remove the copyright infringed material. If piracy is so rampant it shouldn’t be too hard to filter out the stuff they own from the stuff everyone else owns.
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Anonymous

Fascist Police State Under Obama the Protector. The new Face of Amerika. Thanks to the Democrats and their merry band of idiots that voted for Obama the savior of the planet. Fu*K all of them.
- Anonymous
  
  I could easily replace “Obama” with “GWB” and be equally correct. It doesn’t matter which sock puppet you vote for – they’re operated by the same crew.
  
  Which is why, when you look at campaign funding, you find a surprising amount of cash coming to both candidates from the same lobbies – it doesn’t matter who wins if both candidates are so deep in your debt they might as well sign over their firstborns and get it over with.
- Me Ted
  
  It’s not his fault. There is no such thing as partisan politics in the US anymore. That ended with the assassination of JFK. It’s the same nonsense regardless of party and the same people enforcing their will every time.
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Anonymous

Never, ever trust “the cloud” lol. External hard drives are a dime a dozen and can easily be encrypted! pc-anon.tk
- /)-~
  
  Increasing dependence on the Internet and other companies is a step backwards which is why I will never use the “cloud,” not to mention privacy and security issues as Mega users are finding out.
  
  Actually external hard drives used to be a dime a dozen, now they’ve doubled in price due to the flooding in Thailand… :/ Hopefully they come down again soon.
Anonymous

Is there nothing we, as users, can do?
- Fytftfgu
  
  yes, don’t put your (ha ha ha) life critical files on public servers and pay to watch movies and play games and listen to music….in short, stop thieving. it’s particularly amusing that you’re now claiming that word documents and personal photos could (shock horror) be lost, expecting the people who you’ve been stealing billions from for over a decade to care.
  - Me Ted
    
    The way to stop thieving my trolling little RIAA or MPAA cunt, is to innovate or go after each case of infringement one by one. You simply do not throw the baby out with the bath water. Google allows one to file DMCA requests for sites that are infringing on copyrighted material. MEGAupload could offer the same method of protection if they don’t already. Regardless, I look forward to the continued demise of the entertainment industry as a whole. I find THAT to be entertaining ironically enough.
    - PelouzeTF
      
      “The way to stop thieving my trolling little RIAA or MPAA cunt, is to innovate or go after each case of infringement one by one”
      
      One by one LOL……like that has ever worked.
    - The Evil Empire in 4D
      
      Me too Ted. Hollywood and mainstream music is a pile of shit mostly. Plenty of alternatives, I hope this shit comes back to haunt them and they become even more hated and attacked than they already are.
      
      Time for someone to take the RIAA and MPAA for loss of data people, someone must do it and make an example that the American Nazis cannot close down legitimate businesses and put 150 people out of work or delete people’s data.
      
      Think of the damages, this could be worth millions. Fight back time!
  - Guest
    
    Troll, you are thinking about Cloud Computing vs Copyright Industry and conclude that copyright is more important than information.
  - Anonymous
    
    What I meant was how can we, as users, just stand idly by and watch lobbyist groups and “rogue” entities take control of these websites across borders??
    
    There must be something we can do!
- The Evil Empire in 4D
  
  Take RIAA, MPPA etc to court, sue them in America. Class action is the way forward.
  
  Take them for millions of dollars potentially as they are the cause of the loss, they had no right to close a company that was acting legally, they have behaved like Nazis and deserve them same fate!
  - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
    
    Godwin’s Law. Conversation ended.
Farts

It would be very poor judgement to store your files on a site like this. Most everyone would agree that the site was corrupt.

Instead of complaining about how things are done why don’t we see some suggestions on how to stop sites like this without censorship or a loss of rights. The only outcome that downloaders will be happy about is when everything is completely free but I don’t see that happening until our society advances past the concept of money. Until all media legally has to be free its their job to try and protect the content from unauthorized trading. They need input from the people otherwise they will do what the mafiaa says and our rights will be chipped away.

I think the best solution is for us to stop piracy on our terms instead of the government which they probably will succeed in doing. Lets show them that by stopping piracy they still won’t have the ludicrous sales figures they expect. Please support legal streaming and dvd rental sites if they are available in your area. You can even get a tivo or htpc to record ota shows for free without having to download.
- Anonymous
  
  Nothing separates this site from any other cyberlocker. Just because your government says they are corrupt doesn’t mean you have to support it. Americans are so fucking brainwashed that they don’t know how to form an opinion that doesn’t conform with everyone else.
  
  Have you ever thought of checking things for yourself before you make a post?
  - JMZ
    
    They were corrupt. Kim Dotcom was always criminal. I don’t need my government to tell me that.
  - Farts
    
    Please correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t megaupload paying people to upload pirated material?
- http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
  
  I completely reject your argument.
  
  The only reason the situation is what it is, is because the MAFIAA are middle men who contribute nothing to the bigger picture. They don’t create the work, they don’t perform the work, in fact all they do is distribute the work, and with the advent of the internet that isn’t even necessary.
  
  You don’t need major studios to create a good motion picture or television series, as is evidenced by the freely distributed “The Yes Men Fix the World” and “Pioneer One”. You don’t need recording studios to create decent quality music, as is evidenced by artists like MC Lars. Technology has advanced to a state where studio quality work can be produced in-house, and with peer to peer technology and social media, the distribution methods that gave the RIAA a stranglehold on the recording industry are outdated and not needed.
  
  No, the internet is a sign of the times, the MAFIAA can either learn to adjust and compete with free, as has been shown as possible in recent years, or they can die out like the archaic fossils of another time that they are.
  
  But it’s time for them to make a choice. History shows that the masses have never tolerated being told not to do what they wanted, in the 1500s, even under pain of death there were ‘pirate’ printing presses mass producing literature that the establishment, the monopoly, didn’t agree with, and nothing stopped them, until someone changed the law.
  
  We’re not going to stop doing what we want to get what we want. They can either adjust or try to deal with it, but we’re not going to stop.
  - Farts
    
    As long as people are buying music from record companies and going to theaters they have all the money they need to bend and abuse the law to stop file sharing. They don’t have to adjust to anything if people continue to give them money.
    
    We could have a better system without them but not enough people care by boycotting theaters etc. My post was just some quick thoughts on a way we might be able to save some of our internet freedoms from the hands of the mafiaa.
    - jaydee42
      
      But the internet is free, and will always be that way, it’s like the little boy in the damn, you find a leak you plug it with your finger then you spot another leak so you use another finger, soon you have no more fingers. Many sites are still up providing free downloads of movies, music and software, Megaupload is out and others are in it’s place. What has the government accomplished? nothing? Why should singers get paid millions for one album or actors get millions for one movie? If the product was reasonably priced people would buy and not download, oh and quality sucks now as well. It seems they come up with garbage now and people still mindlessly pay for it, look at TV for example, dancing with the stares, we have become so brainwashed and lazy we will sit through anything on the tele.
Craftycorner

Users are screwed.
- Ftfuygyugy
  
  users? there were no legitimate users. there was the people running it making hundreds of millions (geez) + the people uploading movies making more than you or i using other peoples property (crooks too) + the people downloading it (thieves). which of these do you want to protect? geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
  - http://www.facebook.com/alex.ray Alex Ray
    
    0/10 troll harder
    - Dtytfyf
      
      welcome to the ‘ i don’t agree therefore you are a troll’ show…
  - Anonymous
    
    welcome to the ‘ i don’t agree therefore you are a troll’ show…
    
    As in Yes, you are a troll. You and all your fuguffttt aliases.
    
    Got an opinion? Try pinning your name to it. Otherwise you are a troll hiding behind anonymity. Hit and run….
  - Anonymous Person
    
    1st point: A good deal of successful business owners make a lot of money providing services. Just look at Microsoft, or Valve/Steam, or Google. File hosting is a service, and a successful filehoster can make money in the same way that any other business will. And since files are just bundles of data, any site that allows uploading and downloading falls under the ‘filehost’ category. Imgur comes to mind, it’s just a different format of data. (and, to a lesser extent, youtube, facebook, and a home computer running WAMP or Teamviewer can all fit the same category if you use them in the right way)
    
    2nd point: From what I understand of cracker culture (distinct from ‘hacker’ culture, see links at end of reply), it isn’t so much ‘making more than you or I’ as it is ‘I broke through the restrictions on this DVD and got into the Internet faster than you so I have bragging rights’. It isn’t a money issue if pirating is ‘free’ anyway. If I don’t pay to illegally download the movie, and ‘they’ (not me) don’t pay to download it, where would a ‘supplier’ (the one who first uploaded it) get their money? They may get some revenue from advertising and the like, but the costs of hosting and bandwidth would almost negate such gains.
    
    3rd point: Since you decided to use such loaded words as ‘thieves’, just remember that when you buy a DVD, you can only play it on a Region 1, Internet-connected player (hyperbole, but there are still restrictions). If you want to watch the movie on your home PC, you need to jump through hoops just to get the thing to run. Should you want to digitize hundreds of DVDs in your home library to make room, you will need to jump through unique hoops for each one, and even then you may encounter playback issues. Personally, if I had a home library that was taking up space and needed to go, I would download a USABLE, VIEWABLE, MINIMAL DIFFICULTY copy from the internet, since I already have the movie, I just want to watch it in my laptop, rather than on a stationary box tied to a TV with a mess of cords. Does the search for a universally-playable copy of my media make me a thief? If so, we have an issue. And although I won’t dispute the fact that there ARE pirates on Megaupload and similar sites, torching MU to get rid of them is like outlawing cars because a few people use them to smuggle drugs, or revolting against the government because they forgot about your tax return or welfare check (just using examples, not trying to be antagonistic towards any welfare-receivers). The smugglers will find other ways, yet the average user will be screwed over.
    
    Links in question:
    http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html
    (Definition of ‘Cracker’, the thing most often associated with modern hackers and pirates)
    http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
    (Hacker’s real meaning (also see ‘hacker ethics’), used to contrast with the Cracker definition)
  - Anonymous
    
    No legitimate users? Really? So all those videos I made of my kids concerts and events, that I put on MegaUpload to share with my family, were somehow contraband?
    
    Wow, thanks for the heads up. I had no idea it was illegal for me to make my own videos and share them with my family. Ok officer, lock me up. According to Ftfuygyugy I’m a hardened criminal!
  - jaydee42
    
    you forget yourself, not every country buys into the idea it’s against the law to download copyrighted files for free. In my country as the law stands I can download a movie of the net providing it’s for my own use and I don’t charge a fee to display it or sell it. So keep you draconian laws to your self.
Rouxsimon

this is dictatorship
- Tftfug
  
  if you believe that i pity you – or better yet, i want you to picked up and left in a country with a real dictatorship so you can see for yourself first hand how pathetic your whining over this thing is
  - http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat
    
    So we should wait until we are a real dictatorship before we should whine?
  - Me Ted
    
    Hey fuckface. Go read your own fucking constitution because in about 30 years it won’t exist at this rate. Moron.
  - Guest
    
    O ya! this all argument to excuse a pack of bad-ass that there is always worst people elsewhere!
    
    OUR FREEDOM IS DEFINITIVELY AT RISK.
    
    It is time to fetch our guns and save the republic. The tree of liberty need refreshing.
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2MPNCF4M3YSIGPEWMNRVHYCL2Y Xtreme M
  
  last time I checked you idiot knew your files had the possibility of being deleted I mean does MegaUpload sound like a legit- legal back up place? LOL
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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay

Oh hell NO! I want MY files back!

Where’s their damn number?
- Edtrtr
  
  so you uploaded your files there and then deleted them from your pc? clever….
  - Anonymous
    
    Maybe he uploaded to their and his hard drive crashed, they might be the only copies left.
    
    Thats probably not common but it could easily happen.
    - Anonymous
      
      I don’t know about common but it’s what happened to me. I replaced my burned up drive, went to MegaUpload to download the videos I’d backed up (my kids’ concerts so don’t start trolls) and got met with a government seizure page. Cloud storage just took a back seat in my house. It’ll be redundant HDD backups from now on.
    - JMZ
      
      Yeah right…
  - Guest
    
    Most corporations backup their stuff but most individuals do not!
  - Guest
    
    MAFIAA troll thinks Copyright is more important than Technology. flagged
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay
    
    Yep, I sure did delete them. I do a lot of graphical editing that takes a lot of space. So I don’t keep backups of projects I’m working on. Now that I’m turning the projects into a full time occupation, I need even MORE space and I don’t (currently) have a lot of money to buy extra hard drives. So yeah, I’m not happy that the government is censoring my work and I’ll make sure to let Neil McBride know that I’m suing them for damages.
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Anonymous

has anyone bothered to try contacting the HOST directly?, not that i had anything on their server, but just curious.
- Rtdrdt
  
  no, nobody thought of that!!!!
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Chris

Why should the U.S. government help a criminal organization?

That would be like a cartel getting access to their frozen accounts because their junkie customers need a fix.

If anyone should help users it is the datacenters, Carpathia Hosting.
- Me Ted
  
  “Why should the U.S. government help a criminal organization?”
  How so?
  - Chris
    
    Well the founder, Kim, is a hacker and inside trader that was previously found guilty on multiple charges and has led a life of crime. If you don’t think MEGA is a criminal company, then you are the one who is thick. I don’t need a trial to tell me this guy needs to be put away.
    - Me Ted
      
      Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick. You’re lost. Enjoy your soon to be police state you muppet.
    - http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole
      
      Here’s hoping if you’re ever arrested, whether you’ve committed the crime or not, that you’re given a better deal. Me Ted is right, it’s innocent until PROVEN guilty, regardless of personal opinions.
    - jaydee42
      
      Chris says “I don’t need a trial to tell me this guy needs to be put away.”
      That statement goes against every free society man has ever know and every great mind the world has seem, every person regardless of his or her past has the right to a fair and unbiased trial and competent representation at that trial. Unless you support Communism or Fascism.
- AntiCorporateTroll
  
  Criminals yourself corporate troll!
  
  We should make corporate trolling a federal crime for trying to distort the perceive public opinion on the net.
cletus

it’s like a giant digital book burnin’… yeeeeeeeeeee’haw!
- Anonymous
  
  thats a clever insight Clitoris. back then they burn libraries now they wipe servers.
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Brendan

MEGA clearly mentioned in their FAQ that users should still backup. The site was not designed to store irreplaceable files.

MEGA employees only want access to their money so they can run. They don’t give a shit about their customers.
- Anonymous
  
  You need to stop watching TV.
  - Brendan
    
    You need to stop telling people what to do
  - JMZ
    
    Idiot. Thinks he knows it all.
- AntiCorporateTrolls
  
  Oh shut up paid corporate troll!
- AnonPt
  
  Shut the fuck up you ignorant troll
http://www.xn--potsdam-rechtsanwlte-rzb.de/ Rechtsanwalt

Tja, es war ja auch nicht anders zu erwarten
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Guest

“If this doesn’t happen, the consequences for many MegaUpload users and the future of other cloud hosting services will be disastrous.”

The damage is already done. Many web sites are already moving their servers out of the US. The domains name will follows. Say bye bye to many Ican domain names.

I am appalled by the fact that the entertainment industry is willing to cause so much damage to the IT economy by corrupting the US government!

This is totally criminal.
quackers

Download all the porn!
- BooBooKittyPr0n
  
  Done.
  
  I’ll bet your average “pirate” has more than a few lifetimes worth…
- Anonymous
  
  -___- porn.. a waste of storage space,, just stream until u cum.
God

NO! we must step in at once! MAKE PETITIONS!
Donate Money! Bomb the corporate trolls. WE MUST SAVE MEGAUPLOAD!
me

This is just another example why backing up in the cloud as the only backup method is a bad idea. MU’s users SHOULD have kept backups @home, just in case. If they lose data soon, that’s somewhat as if their only hard disk experienced a head crash.

Sorry to sound so negative. I’m all for file sharing and cloud computing, and strongly opposing the US government’s bowing to the Copyright Taliban… but in this case, people losing personal files in the cloud is caused by their own pure laziness and failure to regularly take backups.
http://twitter.com/MohantyLiza Liza Mohanty

Once again, Stallman saw it coming.

http://goo.gl/fjbqO
NATA5

If SOPA/PIPA got enough people riled up I’m sure there’s more than enough people to raise some funds to help Megaupload out.
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Anonymous

Prioritizing greed before lulz has its perils.
http://littlebiggy.org/4712287
foff

Stupid stupid fucking fbi. First why the hell didn’t megaupload with all the money they have put some mirrors in place, stupid fucks.

Second if I had a server and us .com no matter how legit my site was I would be moving it quick out of the us. I am sure many are. The impact to the US internet economy that these actions caused is sure to be felt. Internet freedom in the US is fading fast. Say hello to Communist States of America.
- The Evil Empire in 4D
  
  Like that, Communist States of America. I like that, it is ironic that finally the Commie bastards get them from within, not from Russia!
  
  God is about to FUCK America, Great Depression II is on it’s way. Businesses are moving out of America, it is not a good place to be in business.
http://profile.yahoo.com/NRM3MZJY27GRYFOKCTBZFKITAY res0r9lm

If you don’t like their actions stop supporting these damn companies aligned with the entrainment industry.
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Jbutterfly6

I don’t think this is right I & I’m sure others say this is sharing with each other & not or I’m not infringing on anyone’s copyrights or selling & we give each other permission I do by asking ? Not always . Please leave the comunications and. Sharing alone ! Thank you for letting me voice my opppion!
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Zach

I really hope they let us access the files. I have my portfolio on there ffs
- Anonymous
  
  Then I hope you have contacted your local Pirate Party to join these class action lawsuits.
  
  Keep in mind that the Department of Punishment (ex-Justice) is pretending that the whole service was one of mass infringement. They are quite happy to sweep your portfolio under the rug for eventual deletion when lawful files highlight a lawful use that damages their case.
  
  So if you ever want to see your portfolio again then FIGHT FOR IT. Then we can at minimum have the DoJ promise to protect and eventually return this data. It may also involve a damages claim.
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manen

*tap bugle*

07

we salute thee, Megaupload
Bonkers

I wish I had a time machine… Then everything would be set straight.
Stickeywicket10101

$1.2 Billion missing from MF Global.
Millions of files to be deleted from MU.

Hmmm. Seems like a trend.
The Evil Empire in 4D

I heard users of Mega Upload that are about to lose personal data are going to take the American court and MPPA etc to court for multi million $$$ damages.

Take the filthy greedy bastards for theft of private data, and on a cheerful note, lets hope someone infects the American attorney with a dose of AIDS. Same for those who work for MPPA.
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Guest

OK, I’m sorry, I have to call bullshit. A server hosting facility does not destroy data. That is so insanely stupid. That would be like someone walking into your home with a flamethrower and destroying everything because you forgot to pay rent.

If I was caught up in this whole MegaUpload fiasco, I would take the servers offline – physically disconnect them from the Internet – and perhaps even shut down once the money flow stops. But destroying data? That just opens you up to a whole slew of potential lawsuits.

No, what Carpathia and Cogent SHOULD do is back up all of the data. In fact, they should have been doing that already… does anyone know if the US guvmint got a hold of those backups?
- Craig
  
  Lets take your initial analagy and match it with the situation.
  
  You rent a house.. Durnig your tenure there, you get arrested and taken to jail with your assets frozen. Whilst in jail, you are unable to pay the rent on the house, and thus your contract with the landlord is breached, and you will no longer have access to the house.
  
  As far as your belongings go, it’s your responsibility to get them out again, which, by this point, would involve a seperate agreement with the landlord, which may, in turn, involve paying money to the landlord to regain access to the house (possibly a months rent). In the event this arrangement isn’t made, or fails, the landlord is completely at liberty to dispose of your belongings so they may prepare the house for new tenants, this may involve dumping or incinerating your belongings, as they sure as hell aren’t going to put themselves out of pocket to rent storage for them on your behalf.
  
  The same applies to rented hosting. You can’t expect the actual owners of servers to spend money on backups for non-paying customers. Mega don’t own the servers, they rent them, and the hosting company will want to do whatever they can to prevent those servers sitting dormant whilst paying customers may be waiting to use them.
- Anonymous
  
  A business like MegaUpload would be using thousands of high end servers worth many millions of dollars but also consuming thousands of dollars worth of resources daily.
  
  The cloud rental agreement is very clear. Should payment be overdue then they have 14 days to correct this problem or all data will be deleted and the resources leased out to other companies.
  
  With such expensive high performance systems they do need to run their service hard and fast when there are million of dollars invested and millions of dollars of income at stake. This is not one or two servers but thousands of them and it is fair for the company to want to be paid.
  
  I have no idea if this data could be backed-up. They are saying this data is encrypted and they cannot access it. Then since we are talking around 100TB of data then go figure out yourself have many 4.6GB DVDs that would be.
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The Evil Empire in 4D

Pelouze, file sharing, swapping dvds, tapes, MP3 – this cannot be stopped the RIAA and MPAA are trying to invoke fear to stop people, Kim Dotcom will hopefully walk free as they have a very good lawyer, I hope they are awarded damages too.

People take legal action for the loss of data, don’t be afraid of America, they fear us more than we fear them.
The Evil Empire in 4D

Don’t do business in the Communist States of America unless you want them to seize your property without justification and bankrupt you.

Businesses will leave, make no mistake USA. You will lose billions overnight.
abaranger

Not a bad read, here: http://blogs.canoe.ca/parker/general/hang-the-pirates-%E2%80%94-but-start-with-the-movie-moguls-and-record-execs/
- foff
  
  Good read the arrest of Kim dot com, at least the way it was carried out was way way over the top. They were acting like they were arresting some gun toting drug dealer with his own private army. This guy was just a slimy businessman. The New Zealand police ought to be ashamed.
- Anonymous
  
  Yes a very nice and insightful read.
  - abaranger
    
    glad you guys/gals liked it, kind of like a one packet of biscuits and two cups of tea article, but worth reading imho.
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Globefriends

Happy Segregation from the rest of the world day America! All american ip addresses should be blocked on all international websites as far as im concerned. Yup America …shittyist nation in the world.
Globefriends

Let’s all celebrate American Segregation day! by blocking all american IP addresses on a full time and permanent basis.
Gu357u53r

And Usenet alt.binary long retention paid services keep on chugging along. It’s laughable really if you think about it. And even if most of the bin files are virus infected from downloads using NZB files, which is what I’ve read recently, there are sandbox programs where you can run it in them so it doesn’t infect your live OS.

Do they even know what they are doing?

What’s next?
John316

Big question is for Piracy with these bills and ACTA if one of them passed will Piracy be finished forever or just harder find? Is all this being overreacted by us people?
- Anonymous
  
  Piracy certainly won’t end if ACTA passes.
  
  ACTA makes ISPs liable for what their users do. It also has a 3-strikes and disconnection section which the EU removed from their copy. ACTA also insulates current IP laws preventing Government setting their own IP laws. Uniform global IP laws may sound nice until you realise who will play a big hand in setting these global laws.
  
  There is a lot more too it than that but ACTA is the most powerful “trade agreement” ever to pass under the President’s invalid signature. He should send it to Congress where it belongs.
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The takedown of Megaupload is a show…… Hollywood owns these damn file sharing sites that are so famously regarded as PIRATE SITES. (of course, the original founders of these sites, that still run them, take a fat cut of money for their losses) Hollywood makes fuckin’ millions off of this shit. They needed this shit to happen so that the people that don’t get online all the time, will know that piracy is bad and SOPA/PIPA/whateverelsefuckinunconstitutionalbilltheyhave will get passed, in America.
Shalltheedie

The takedown of Megaupload is a show…… Hollywood owns these damn file sharing sites that are so famously regarded as PIRATE SITES. (of course, the original founders of these sites, that still run them, take a fat cut of money for their losses) Hollywood makes fuckin’ millions off of this shit. They needed this shit to happen so that the people that don’t get online all the time, will know that piracy is bad and SOPA/PIPA/whateverelsefuckinunconstitutionalbilltheyhave will get passed, in America.
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Gues

The moral of this story is, DO NOT EVER STORE YOUR FILES ON CLOUD STORAGE!!!
- Mister
  
  it is so ridiculous how much they try to own and threaten everyone.. just watch all of the bad propoganda people will get that say no to ACTA
- Anonymous
  
  Yes it is but not for the reason you think.
  
  Look at their evidence in this case. Despite Kim Dotcom having no convictions and having spent zero time in prison then the FBI was still spying on his lawful business involving users sharing files going back to 2006.
  
  What European or Asian business would ever want USA hosting including cloud storage, or to use American services, all the time the US Government rakes through their data and communication noting down any juicy facts?
  
  One direct example is that any email over 6 months old is automatically considered abandoned and therefore harvested. Active accounts with daily log-ins change that none. So if you use webmail then keep deleted or download and encrypted.
  
  It is true to say that European businesses these days will totally refuse hosting on American services. Once they have your privates then it would only be misused and abused,
  - Anonymous
    
    If I’m not mistaken Kim Dotcom has been incarcerated for embezzlement, computer fraud and insider trading, and fled to New Zealand. Hardly a clean record.
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The EFF has become involved in the issue of legitimately stored data.

See http://www.megaretrieval.com/
Guest

The corporation of parasites pederasts and thieves soon to be destroy as well!

All their executives to be throw in the slammer for life! This or hell!
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i wish that hundreds of people unite under the name “anonymous” and raid wherever the Megaupload servers are held. people have so much power yet devalue their selves by thinking for their own gain and not as a community. imagine if people had the souls of ants.. and stop being selfish cowards.
abaranger

http://megaretrieval.com/ possible hope but only for USA users….WTF?
http://profile.yahoo.com/D5UEX6KRTHGI5RTKJLC3U7DZPM Bob

i hope they AT LEAST give us 24 hours access…i’m mad cause i had alot of stuff of on MU that i didn’t keep a 2nd backup off (-)smacks head into wall(-)

p.s. if anyone is looking for a similar free host:
http://www.peeje.com/upload

imo it’s better than megaupload since peeje gives u DIRECT-download links
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wondering it might be megaupload has some secret document which uploaded to their sites.. and after they took it back. they burn the other files..
quite suspicious when the anti terrorist regiment grab them rather than the police..
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