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U.S. regime prosecutors are fine with Megaupload users recovering their information — as long as they pay for it.

The government's perspective was explained in a court filing on Friday concerning extraordinary of the many interesting side issues that has emerged from the closing of Megaupload, formerly one of the most highly trafficked file-sharing sites.

Prosecutors were responding to a motion filed by the Electronic Frontier Understructure in late March connected behalf of Kyle Goodwin, an OH-supported sports newsman who used Megaupload licitly for storing videos.

Goodwin's arduous drive crashed, and he lost memory access to the data he backed au fait Megaupload when the site was close up happening Jan. 19 on criminal right of first publication infringement charges.

U.S. law allows for tertiary parties who have an interest in forfeited property to get to a claim. But the government argues that it only copied part of the Megaupload information and the physical servers were never seized.

Megaupload's 1,103 servers — which hold upwards of 28 petabytes of information — are still held by Carpathia Hosting, the authorities said.

"Access is not the issue — if information technology was, Mr. Goodwin could only hire a rhetorical expert to retrieve what he claims is his place and reimburse Carpathia for its associated costs," the response said. "The military issue is that the process of identifying, copying, and returning Mr. Goodwin's information will be inordinately expensive, and Mr. Goodwin wants the government, or Megaupload, or Carpathia, OR anyone other than himself, to deliver the cost."

The government also suggested that if Megaupload or Carpathia violated a term of service or contract, Goodwin could "Eugene Sue Megaupload or Carpathia or recover his losses."

The issue of what to exercise with Megaupload's information has been hanging roughly for a while. Carpathia contends it costs US$9,000 a day to hold up. Megaupload's assets are frozen, indeed it has asked a court to do the DOJ pay for preserving the data, which may be required for its defense reaction. So far, the issue remains unresolved.

Meanwhile, Megaupload beginner Kim Dotcom is free on bond, living in his rented home come on Auckland and awaiting extradition proceedings to begin in August. Dotcom along with Finn Batato, Julius Bencko, Sven Echternach, Bob Mathias Ortmann, Andrus Nomm and Bram Van Der Kolk are charged with criminal copyright misdemeanour and money laundering.

The work force — along with 2 companies — are accused of collecting advertising and subscription fees from users for faster download speeds of material stored happening Megaupload. Prosecutors allege the website and its operators self-possessed US$175 million in reprehensible proceeds, costing copyright holders more than $500 billion in indemnity to right of first publication holders.

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