Legal help offered to Megaupload users - GoFuckYourself.com

DVTimes · 01-31-2012, 12:52 PM

Users affected by the closure of Megaupload have been offered legal help to retrieve their data.

A website has been set up to assist former members of the site to contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation in order to start co-ordinated action.

The EFF has criticised the US government for acting "without warning" when it closed the site this month.

It is understood that the data, which is shared across many servers globally, will be held for at least two weeks.

The support site - megaretrieval.com - has been set up by storage company Carpathia, which provides hosting services for some of Megaupload's content.

"Although Carpathia does not have, and has never had, access to the content on Megaupload's servers, the hosting provider wants to assist lawful users of the Megaupload service by promoting EFF and its non-profit legal services," Carpathia said in a press release.

Chief marketing officer Brian Winter added: "We support the EFF and their efforts to help those users that stored legitimate, non-infringing files with Megaupload retrieve their data."

Julie Andrews, staff attorney for the EFF, said it was important that Megaupload users' voices were heard.

"EFF is troubled that so many lawful users of Megaupload.com had their property taken from them without warning and that the government has taken no steps to help them," she said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16812452

12clicks · 01-31-2012, 01:00 PM

Phoenix · 01-31-2012, 01:04 PM

damn 12 clicks beat me to it

brassmonkey · 01-31-2012, 01:22 PM

some people actually had data there that was legal.

12clicks · 01-31-2012, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by brassmonkey

some people actually had data there that was legal.

really?
what did you have there that was legal?

Harmon · 01-31-2012, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 12clicks

really?
what did you have there that was legal?

I assume people were using it for a file repository. I can imagine that there were some legitimate users with as much traffic as they had.

porno jew · 01-31-2012, 01:41 PM

Before shutdown, Megaupload ate up more corporate bandwidth than Dropbox

http://arstechnica.com/business/news...an-dropbox.ars

can't expect the backwards half-wits in porn to understand that though.

DWB · 01-31-2012, 01:43 PM

I think Gideon Gallbladder is helping all of them in the legal department, so no worries... it's all good.

12clicks · 01-31-2012, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porno jew

Before shutdown, Megaupload ate up more corporate bandwidth than Dropbox

http://arstechnica.com/business/news...an-dropbox.ars

can't expect the backwards half-wits in porn to understand that though.

dear half-wit not in porn. Those of us in the corporate world don't leave anything of value unduplicated, on some half assed file sharing service none to steal.

you'll probably have a hard time understanding that though.

Deputy Chief Command · 01-31-2012, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

some people actually had data there that was legal.

it is like keeping all your important documents in a crackhouse! then get upset when the police come to close down the place and confiscate everything in there

Deputy Chief Command · 01-31-2012, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porno jew

Before shutdown, Megaupload ate up more corporate bandwidth than Dropbox

http://arstechnica.com/business/news...an-dropbox.ars

can't expect the backwards half-wits in porn to understand that though.

Quote:

"The key point is that this is real network traffic, it's not a survey. It's not speculation on anyone's part," said Matt Keil, Palo Alto senior research analyst.

huh? then you go to the folks they are quoting.. and this is what they say

Quote:

Scientific analysis? Nope. Foolproof? No such thing. But that is not the purpose of the discussion. The purpose of the discussion is to highlight the fact that:

http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/rese...entertainment/

WHAATTTT????

and like we all know people at the office DONT spend time watching porn or watching movies

Nautilus · 01-31-2012, 02:00 PM

Megaupload users who stored their vital files there and had no backups need medical help, not the legal one.

Kenny B! · 01-31-2012, 02:07 PM

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brassmonkey · 01-31-2012, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 12clicks

really?
what did you have there that was legal?

i didnt have anything there. but i saw some college kids had some videos there

L-Pink · 01-31-2012, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deputy Chief Command

it is like keeping all your important documents in a crackhouse! then get upset when the police come to close down the place and confiscate everything in there

12clicks · 01-31-2012, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

i didnt have anything there. but i saw some college kids had some videos there

Uh, exactly.

Phoenix · 01-31-2012, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

i didnt have anything there. but i saw some college kids had some videos there

i say screw them.
there were plenty of places they could keep things that don't include an illegal website

the corporate mistakes? i am slightly leaning towards those companies being held financially liable...25% of corporate traffic? that is a big number, how much money was made from that?
I would fire anyone that put sensitive company information on a site called megaupload where people go to download stolen merchandise.
Who are these companies?

12clicks · 01-31-2012, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenny B!

12 clicks, you make me smile!

I try , Kenny.
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JFK · 01-31-2012, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kenny B!

12 clicks, you make me smile!

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JimmyStephans · 01-31-2012, 05:03 PM

Did anybody read the Mega TOS, or after the take down read the Federal Indictment?

(1) TOS clearly states that Megaupload user files are subject to deletion at any time (while service was up)... Meaning that these people that claim to have store all these medical files there, legal files there, important business files there, did so knowing that they could be deleted at any time.

(2) The indictment talks about how the investigation had been going on for a long time and that it revealed that Megaupload routinely deleted files that were not being downloaded enough times by persons that paid for Megaupload access.

Thats a major point in the indictment - that it was bullshit that it was a simple free file storage service and that if they didn't make money from the files uploaded - they would delete them.

Based on those two things - do we feel sorry for those the might have left legal files there (knowing they could be deleted any time without warning) and do we also believe that some medical records or personal photos or business records had been downloaded enough by paying members for Megaupload to retain them like they did popular Hollywood movies?

I've seen many posts, under anonymous screennames, bitching about how they had this important medical record or that important business record there... But what I haven't seen - not on boards, not on torrent sites, not on CNN or Time or USA Today - is a person making those claims in their real name.

Only the EFF lawyers and webhost management have used their real names. Those making claims of their files being legal, important, and now "gone" all seem to use screennames.

Makes me think the claims can't be backed up and are maybe just plain old pirate bullshit.

Jimmy

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JimmyStephans Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Littleton, Colorado. USA Posts: 558	Did anybody read the Mega TOS, or after the take down read the Federal Indictment? (1) TOS clearly states that Megaupload user files are subject to deletion at any time (while service was up)... Meaning that these people that claim to have store all these medical files there, legal files there, important business files there, did so knowing that they could be deleted at any time. (2) The indictment talks about how the investigation had been going on for a long time and that it revealed that Megaupload routinely deleted files that were not being downloaded enough times by persons that paid for Megaupload access. Thats a major point in the indictment - that it was bullshit that it was a simple free file storage service and that if they didn't make money from the files uploaded - they would delete them. Based on those two things - do we feel sorry for those the might have left legal files there (knowing they could be deleted any time without warning) and do we also believe that some medical records or personal photos or business records had been downloaded enough by paying members for Megaupload to retain them like they did popular Hollywood movies? I've seen many posts, under anonymous screennames, bitching about how they had this important medical record or that important business record there... But what I haven't seen - not on boards, not on torrent sites, not on CNN or Time or USA Today - is a person making those claims in their real name. Only the EFF lawyers and webhost management have used their real names. Those making claims of their files being legal, important, and now "gone" all seem to use screennames. Makes me think the claims can't be backed up and are maybe just plain old pirate bullshit. Jimmy __________________ http://TrueBabes.com/ Last edited by JimmyStephans; 01-31-2012 at 05:07 PM..