Excerpted from MSNBC
Megauploads was recently raided because it is said to have facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.
Megauploads is a site where users can upload data to be downloaded by other users or just for storage for personal files. According to MSNBC, U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, they also say that data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday.
Megaupload hires outside companies to store the data, for a fee. But Megaupload attorney Ira Rothken said Sunday that the government has frozen its money.
A letter filed in the case Friday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said storage companies Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc. may begin deleting data Thursday. Spokespersons for the two companies and for the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not respond to messages Sunday night.
The letter said the government copied some data from the servers but did not physically take them. It said that now that it has executed its search warrants, it has no right to access the data. The servers are controlled by Carpathia and Cogent and issues about the future of the data must be resolved with them, prosecutors said.
Megaupload’s attorney said the company is working with prosecutors to try to keep the data from being erased, he said at least 50 million user are in danger of losing their data.
So, if you use Megauploads to store anything, you may want to get it backed up to somewhere else.
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-Bryan