MegaUpload: All Data To Be Deleted?

Panic on board! All MegaUpload files could be deleted as of Thursday, say US prosecutors.

After the closure of the site and the arrest of seven men accused of having generated profits of USD 175 million through the online exploitation of videos most of which belong to copyright holders, it has become difficult to pay third party storage companies.

The data on the site now in trouble with the US government is currently in the hands of two storage companies, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, who could decide to shed the extra weight and wipe files as of Thursday.

While most of the data on the site is probably illicit, you can only feel sympathy for users who have uploaded their own original files.

For the time being, Ira Rothken, MegaUpload's lawyer, is looking for ways of preventing the total deletion of data, but, as things stand, the fifty million users affected by this decision certainly cannot swear by his word.


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