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.'"
slashdotted (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, the question to who knows: is the data available to users now? Why don't they make it available? MAFIAA does not gain anything by not allowing current users to download their own material. Unless there is a technical issue of nobody's giving rat's ass about users of megaupload.
Deleting evidence (Score:5, Interesting)
I would have thought that all the evidence would need to be preserved. Surely if any data is deleted that would compromise the case?
Re:Deleting evidence (Score:4, Interesting)
No, a better idea would be a FOIA request for data.
Re:Nice use of taxpayer dollars! (Score:4, Interesting)
And they even sent dozens of cops to arrest the fat, scared owner of the website
Forgive me if I somehow fail to see this guy [wired.com] as a scared, intimidated victim...
a self-styled âoeDr. Evilâ of file sharing... ...has made a career out of being larger than life, which seems appropriate for a six foot, six inch man... ...said he had hacked hundreds of US companiesâ(TM) PBX systems and was selling the access codes at $200 a pop, bragging that âoeevery PBX is an open door to me.â He also claimed to have developed an encrypted phone that could not be tapped, and to have sold a hundred of them...
In his 2001 interview with the Telegraph, he also claimed to have hacked Citibank and transferred $20 million to Greenpeace...
He also claimed to have hacked NASA and said that he had accessed Pentagon systems to read top-secret information on Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.
He bought stolen phone card account information from American hackers. After setting up premium toll chat lines in Hong Kong and in the Caribbean, he used a âoewar dialerâ program to call the lines using the stolen card numbersâ"ringing up â61,000 in ill-gained profits.
set up a computer system for the uploading and downloading of pirated PC software, charging people for access.
And on, and on, and on. And all of this is stuff he brags about in interviews.
The guy is not a victim.
Re:EFF, Carpathia to Assist Users (Score:5, Interesting)
There should be a "Promote to Article" button for posts like the parent.