Feds give OK to deleting Megaupload user files starting Thursday

The US Attorney's Office leading the prosecution of Megaupload founder
Kim Dotocm and his associates has told the court that the companies
hosting Megaupload data might begin deleting data on February 2,
according to an AP report.

"The execution of those search warrants [on the servers] has now been
completed," said the government letter. "The United States copied
selected Mega Servers and copied selected data from some of the other
Mega Servers, but did not remove any of the Mega Servers from the
premises.

"Now that the United States has completed execution of its search
warrants, the United States has no continuing right to access the Mega
Servers. The Mega Servers are not in the actual or constructive custody
or control of the United States, but remain at the premises controlled
by, and currently under the control of, Carpathia and Cogent.

Should the
defendants wish to obtain independent access to the Mega Servers, or
coordinate third-party access to data housed on Mega Servers, that issue
must be resolved directly with Cogent or Carpathia.

It is our
understanding that the hosting companies may begin deleting the contents
of the servers beginning as early as February 2, 2012."

Since Megaupload's assets are frozen, company attorney Ira Rothken told
AP reporter Joshua Freed that Megaupload was unable to continue to pay
its hosting providers, but that he had been working with prosecutors to
keep the data—belonging to at least 50 million Megaupload users—from
being erased.

Carpathian and Cogent representatives have not commented on the letter.

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I hate that they did this, but nothing is free now-a-days