Cost of Hosting Megaupload Data Untenable

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$9,000 a day to host the data for Megaupload's users? And you thought your internet bill was high. :eek:

Carpathia Hosting filed an emergency motion this week in U.S. federal court in Virginia seeking protection from the expense of hosting the data of up to 66 million users. It says it is using more than 1,100 servers to store the 25 million gigabytes of data. In the motion filed Tuesday, the Virginia-based company said it is paying $9,000 a day to host the data, which works out to more than $500,000 since January.
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Send that bill to the MPAA since they're likely the primary party that wants the data and when they ignore requests to pay up then sue them and demand they pay some crazy multiple of the original amount requested since not paying the initial amount obviously caused losses on top of the initial cost to their business. They could have been selling server space to paying customers.
 
^ In MPAA's defense: You can't destroy evidence.

Host: F**k you. 'hits delete'
 
I hope the courts don't pay the host with tax payer's money to keep the data alive. It shouldn't be costing $9000/day just to do that.
 
This might be a crazy idea, but since no one should be accessing the data, why not just turn the servers off?
 
GaryJohnson said:
I hope the courts don't pay the host with tax payer's money to keep the data alive. It shouldn't be costing $9000/day just to do that.
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If the courts pay the host with taxpayer dollars, then all you data are belong to us! amIright? ;)
 
siliconnerd said:
This might be a crazy idea, but since no one should be accessing the data, why not just turn the servers off?
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MegaUpload was probably leasing the servers, $9/day for a server with (presumably) a bunch of disks is not extraordinarily high. If the servers are off, then they use less electricity, but it's still servers (and space) that the host owns but isn't leasing to a paying customer.
 
Uvaman said:
how about placing the HDDs in a box?
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being as the data isn't accessible it essentially is in a box. The problem is all that hardware is now going unused which is how they make their business, taking that many hard drives physically out would also cost money and might not be terribly feasible, remove the hard drive from 1000 computers out there, see how many of them still work the same.

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It is asking the court to either have others take possesion of the data, ensure that Carpathia be paid until the completion of the case or let it delete the data after allowing users access for a brief period for selective copying.
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They're essentially being asked to be the storage locker for the legal system, free of charge.
 
Send it to the MPAA. No doubt they'll reroute it to govt which will reroute it to taxes.
 
None of this bodes well for Carpathia. Hope they have some money in the bank to tide them over, nothing will be decided fast, and at 9k a day, that will hurt.
 
siliconnerd said:
This might be a crazy idea, but since no one should be accessing the data, why not just turn the servers off?
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Well, the issue is not about energy and data consumption, they have infrastructure that is being "detained" so to speak. Even if they turn them off and stop using electricity and bandwidth, which would obviously alleviate the issue, the real problem is that they can't just delete the info on those servers and lease them to other customers rendering thousands of servers obsolete for the time being.

I wouldn't be surprised if they go bankrupt if no action is taken to "fix" this issue.
 
The MPAA doesn't care if Kim Dotcom wins or loses. They just know a seizure of his assets for a few months to years will ruin him, and that's all they want--to make an example of him.

Even if he is found legally in the right, he could suffer the same fate as bleem and lik-sang.
 
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