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U.S. Judge Explores Return of Megaupload Data

posted by janrinok on Sunday November 08 2015, @03:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-late-than-never dept.

bitweeder writes in with this story from TorrentFreak:

"There's a chance that after four years Megaupload users may be reunited with their lost files. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O'Grady has asked several stakeholders to chime in on the possible return of the Megaupload servers, which also holds crucial evidence for Kim Dotcom's defense."

Nearly four years have passed since Megaupload's servers were raided by U.S. authorities. Since then very little progress has been made in the criminal case.

Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload colleagues are currently awaiting the result of their extradition hearing in New Zealand and have yet to formally appear in a U.S. court.

Meanwhile, more than 1,000 Megaupload servers from Carpathia Hosting remain in storage in Virginia, some of which contain crucial evidence as well as valuable files uploaded by users. The question is, for how long.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @12:59AM (#260599)

    If some portion of the files are indeed pirated and the government returns them, that would be like the cops returning contraband to someone. It simply makes no sense...

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @02:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @02:35AM (#260622)

    Part of the reason Megaupload got into trouble was deduplication.

    Megapuload has now way of knowing what copies are infringing. That is why they did not actually delete tyhe content when hit with a DMCA take-down request. For example, the original copyright owner may be using Meagupload to store their work. Or, people may be keeping a copy on megaupload for personal study: considered fair dealing under Canadian law.

    The implication is that the police similarly have no way of knowing which copies are actually infringing or not. That is probably one reason the prosecution has gone nowhere.