Sci/Tech Kim Dotcom: All Megaupload servers 'wiped out without warning in data massacre'

[tom_mai78101]

Kim Dotcom has accused the US government and Leaseweb, one of the hosting providers of former file-sharing site Megaupload, of deleting millions of personal files "without warning."

The information stored on the dormant servers – “petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property” – was what Dotcom called evidence in the case US authorities launched against him in January 2012. Dotcom is wanted in the US on criminal charges for facilitating copyright fraud on a massive scale.

“This is the largest data massacre in the history of the Internet,” Dotcom wrote on Twitter.

Lawyers representing his former company “have repeatedly asked Leaseweb not to delete Megaupload servers while court proceedings are pending in the US,” he added.
Dotcom, who made a fortune from his file-sharing service Megaupload, is currently under a federal investigation launched by the US Department of Justice after by police raided his home. He is currently free on bail in New Zealand, and is wanted in the US on criminal charges for facilitating copyright fraud on a massive scale, racketeering and money-laundering, which carries maximum sentence of 20 years. His extradition trail is set for August.

Kim Dotcom: All Megaupload servers 'wiped out without warning in data massacre'

Kim Dotcom has accused the US government and Leaseweb, one of the hosting providers of former file-sharing site Megaupload, of deleting millions of personal files "without warning."

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[KMilz]

Booo, cheaters. Shouldn't they have some sort of back-up though? I could see their cloud getting deleted, but they should have everything in hard storage, too.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Booo, cheaters. Shouldn't they have some sort of back-up though? I could see their cloud getting deleted, but they should have everything in hard storage, too.

If Kim Dotcom is pissed, I think that's the last backup you'll ever see in your life.

 

[Accname]

As the NSA, maybe they have some of it left.

 

[tom_mai78101]

As the NSA, maybe they have some of it left.

If they'd given the leftovers out, that proves NSA is spying on Americans, which is more of a riskier backlash than World War 3.

 

[FireCat]

LOL

 

[Accname]

If they'd given the leftovers out, that proves NSA is spying on Americans, which is more of a riskier backlash than World War 3.

They dont have to prove it, as far as i know it is already pretty obvious.
Isnt there a law which says they are allowed to spy?

 

[The Helper]

If that stuff really got deleted it is not coming back. They will not do a hunt for it unless DotCom can get the lawyers after them. Be interesting to see what happens next but my guess is nothing. That is the man DotCom is messing with or is messing with him.