Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks 94
First time accepted submitter AlistairCharlton writes "Users' data on the seized Megaupload website will be saved for two further weeks, according to the website's lawyer, despite being shut down by US authorities. From the article: 'Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken reportedly told tech blog TorrentFreak.com that users' data would be saved for at least another two weeks, after it was previously thought that the data would be deleted by Thursday, 2 February.'"
Re:Deleting? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Deleting evidence (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Deleting evidence (Score:5, Insightful)
They don't care about the evidence.
They don't care about the conviction.
They just want MegaUpload gone.
They got what they want, the rest is details.
Re:slashdotted (Score:3, Insightful)
The government has a copy. They just need to go through it first to make sure no one was doing anything illegal--such as downloading pirated files, bad-mouthing the President, supporting the Occupy movement, etc.
Re:slashdotted (Score:1, Insightful)
Yeah, like the government hasn't spent hundreds of thousands supporting the 'occupy movement.'
Re:Deleting evidence (Score:4, Insightful)
Are you kidding me? If Megaupload gets out of this, they're going to have tons of free publicity. "We fought the American government... and won!" Dotcom can paint himself as a rebel thumbing his nose at the most powerful country in the world and getting away with it.
Re:slashdotted (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh good grief, Slashdot comments have reached a new low.
Can you show me a single, solitary instance of where badmouthing the president has been treated as a criminal (or civil) offense, in the last 50 years? If not kindly keep your hyperbole to yourself.
Ditto with "supporting the occupy movement", which I will note was given free reign to trespass on private property for well over a month before everyone decided it was time they complied with the same laws the Tea Party had to.
Seriously, this silly karma whoring is getting irritating.
Re:you lose credit when you say 'MAFIAA' (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, there's only two real problems with the cloud, albeit possibly major ones depending on your utilization.
1. You can lose your stuff. It's not as easy as we fear, but the Megaupload situation shows that it is not as hard as we had hoped.
2. If you store private data there, you're taking a risk that you probably don't need to take.
Neither of these says that you should not use cloud services, what they do say, however, is that for critical data, you should not rely on it. For data expected to be secure, you should not use it at all.
For my part, the cloud is probably fine to use if you want to store anything that is not security or financially related. The fact that you could lose it doesn't mean you should not use it at all, it just means you should back it up locally. Otherwise, you should be able to keep using the advantages of cloud services, which are still, frankly, going to be more reliable than your home computer on average. They also allow you to get your data where and when you need it, which is another big advantage that should not be overlooked.
Caveat emptor.
Re:slashdotted (Score:3, Insightful)
One would expect a rational response to the ideas presented in a post on slashdot, but I guess not if they have decided to fall back on ridicule and grammar nazism.