MegaUpload data could be deleted by Thursday
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:39 |
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Hosting companies may start deleting MegaUpload users' content from their servers - regardless of whether or not the content is legal - starting as soon as Thursday, February 2, according to a letter filed in federal court by U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride.
According to news reports, the letter was submitted on Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia. Although MegaUpload is based in Hong Kong, U.S. authorities claim to have the authority to act because some of the company's leased servers are located in Virginia.
According to MegaUpload, millions of users store their own data, such as photos and personal documents, on the site.
The site had some 180 million registered users and was getting 50 million daily hits when U.S. prosecutors shut it down on January 19, indicting and arresting the owners for allegedly operating an organisation dedicated to piracy of movies, music and more.
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