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thewayneMegaupload was sort of a cloud/hosting provider. The Department of Justice swept in, co-opted the New Zealand police to arrest the founder and top executives (the founder is an NZ resident), and the DOJ seized 11,000 servers representing 66 million customers data at their hosting site in Virginia and shut them down.
This was basically at the behest of media content providers. Some of those 66 million customers were pirating movies, games, music, etc. But a lot of them were not. And the government has basically stolen non-infringing information and denied them access to it. One case in point, a high school coach is suing for access, he stored team video footage on Megaupload's servers and can't access it.
It gets even more complicated when you take in to account that some people uploaded movies to Megaupload from countries where such activity is lawful.
Then judge stepped in when "The Department of Justice told the federal judge overseeing the prosecution that the government has no obligation to assist anybody getting back their data, even if it’s non-infringing material."
Yay for the judge!
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/retired-judge-megaupload/
This was basically at the behest of media content providers. Some of those 66 million customers were pirating movies, games, music, etc. But a lot of them were not. And the government has basically stolen non-infringing information and denied them access to it. One case in point, a high school coach is suing for access, he stored team video footage on Megaupload's servers and can't access it.
It gets even more complicated when you take in to account that some people uploaded movies to Megaupload from countries where such activity is lawful.
Then judge stepped in when "The Department of Justice told the federal judge overseeing the prosecution that the government has no obligation to assist anybody getting back their data, even if it’s non-infringing material."
Yay for the judge!
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/retired-judge-megaupload/
