Megaupload Data Wipe of the Day: All of Megaupload’s user-uploaded files could be destroyed this Thursday, according to the embattled file-sharing company’s lawyer.
After Megaupload was taken down and its assets were frozen, the company was unable to pay for the server space to host users’ files.
Megaupload attorney Ira Rothken says he’s trying to work with the US Attorney’s office to unfreeze enough money to pay for “bandwidth, hosting, and systems administration in order to allow consumers to get access to their data stored in the Mega cloud and to back up the same for safekeeping.”
Although Megaupload was busted for allegedly hosting copyright-infringing files, there are plenty of non-infringing personal and work files stored on the cloud service. Rothken says destroying those files could have “a chilling effect” on the entire cloud storage industry in the United States.
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