MegaUpload: the search deemed illegal

Important information in the trial of MegaUpload: searches and seizures of property conducted at the home of Kim Dotcom were illegal.

MegaUpload file comes to an important advance, which Kim Dotcom. Indeed, the High Court of New Zealand comes to recognize officially that the warrants used to search and seize property in the House of Kim Dotcom during his arrest were not valid from a legal point of view.

Thus, all computer data seized during the searches and copies thereof on which are based the charges will have to be returned and will not be used as evidence. The U.S. Attorney and the FBI thus became to work without these elements. Of course, this does not sign the end of the trial of Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload, the charge well with other elements on which to rely. But it could be in these parts that elements justifying some illegal facts alleged Kim Dotcom and his team are.

We do not know for the moment, and the next big deadline in that case is scheduled for the month of July. In the meantime, Kim Dotcom continues to receive evidence of sympathy from some personalities of the world information, such as Kevin Mitnick this week.

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Legal MegaUpload files can be recovered...

... under condition that the judge is in agreement and that the files in question are not subject to the rights of intellectual property according to the criteria of the MPAA.

On 19 January, the FBI closes the image hosting MegaUpload servers. Thousands of users found themselves taken hostage by the American authorities as being more able to retrieve their files deposited in the claimant.

Since a few months, the complaints of users increases, the other the technical provider that holds MegaUpload servers found with petabytes of data without being able to remove them because they are still under seal by the American authorities with a daily cost of $ 9,000 dependants for the moment.

But coup de theatre, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which is part of the complainants in the trial of MegaUpload decides to respond to users adversely affected in the case. A simple letter But it is not, because the MPAA wants to release the lawful user files "If the Court allows such a measure, precautions must be taken to ensure that no copy of content copyrighted on MegaUpload servers be made available to the all."

Need then to develop a fine comb to move to screen all the files stored to free one by one each file considered lawful by the MPAA and and return them to the bucket account. Something that millions of users will appreciate, although you will have to wait long before the situation becomes really unchoked.

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MegaUpload: 25 petabytes of data which are expensive to maintain

One of the providers who rented the MegaUpload server would like to find a solution to get rid of the 25 petabytes of data which immobilize its servers 1000...

Carpathia Hosting, one of host MegaUpload data providers, calls for support to continue to maintain 25 petabytes of files from the activity of the service closed by the FBI on its servers. A conservation which deals with 1103 servers and cost it about 9000 dollars a day he said.

Waiting for a legal decision, these data obviously cannot be deleted, or be displaced. And we know that having been seized MegaUpload accounts, Kim Dotcom company can no longer pay the Bills that make it achieve its providers. Result of the races is to justice that Carpathia Hosting turns to try to find a solution.

The hoster proposes that the conservation of these 25 petabytes of data be given to other organizations or the Government, or why not the MegaUpload company. The situation is urgent for Carpathia Hosting, which would like to use its servers immobilized for more profitable purposes.

Virginia Federal Court will therefore have to meet this demand quickly enough. It could request the complainants to participate financially in the conservation of these data that may play a role in the trial of MegaUpload. Unless justice does finally the temporary re-opening of the service to allow for MegaUpload users to recover their data, before allowing their removal. However, this latter scenario is that largely hypothetical...

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Stars are the pub of MegaUpload, Universal is rampant

MegaUpload change design and made his promo in a clip using the number of American stars. Not at all of the taste of Universal Music…

Site hosting and more or less legal files MegaUpload download Gets a new design and take this opportunity to launch an advertising campaign involving many stars of the music made in USA which Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Will.i.am, P.Diddy, Jamie Foxx, and many others. These figures thus all participated in a video clip entitled "MegaSong" in which they boast of this file Exchange service. Considered the new pet peeve to be slaughtered by the RIAA and the MPAA (American associations for the defence of the rights of the musical and film industry) as promoting piracy of works, MegaUpload saw his removed promotional clip of many video platforms such as Youtube or Vimeo by Universal Music Group.

Indeed, many figures appearing in the clip and the site MegaUpload forms of thumbnails and video testimonials are under contract with the House of disk which does not at all like the thing and attempts to prohibit the dissemination of these videos by all means. The Mega society talks about censorship and is not to let considering even lodge a complaint against Universal. It took not more to feed more buzz and the video of the MegaSong is now found on many blogs, news sites, video streaming platforms, directly on the home page of the site MegaUpload or below (if censorship has not already occurred).

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