Megaupload Host Refuses to Delete User Data

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If this isn't one of the most screwed up love triangles in existence, I don't know what is.

Months after the Megaupload raids and arrests, the fate of the 1,103 servers hosted at Carpathia is still undecided. While the feds won’t mind if the servers are wiped clean, Megaupload, the EFF and the MPAA want the data to be preserved because it contains critical evidence and irreplaceable user data. Carpathia is sympathetic to these concerns and has put the fate of Megaupload’s data in the hands of Judge O’Grady.
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How would you like to be a Carpathia exec sitting on a metric fuckton of assets you can't use and don't know if you are ever going to get paid for.
 
jojo69 said:
How would you like to be a Carpathia exec sitting on a metric fuckton of assets you can't use and don't know if you are ever going to get paid for.
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You, the taxpayer, will end up getting the bill for that. Smart move really because Carpathia will be able to bill at the rates that were in place when the bust happened, and they will bill till the issue is resolved in court. The best part is that they don't even have to keep those servers powered on. It's imho pure win for Carpathia.
 
Judge O'Grady?

Reminds me of Judge Grady's "Just or Unjust" radio show in GTA4.

Good times :D
 
Thuleman said:
You, the taxpayer, will end up getting the bill for that. Smart move really because Carpathia will be able to bill at the rates that were in place when the bust happened, and they will bill till the issue is resolved in court. The best part is that they don't even have to keep those servers powered on. It's imho pure win for Carpathia.
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This. Easy money and free advertising for Carpathia.
 
The gov is basically asking Carpathia to destroy valuable evidence, it would make a mockery of the justice system of the gov can just assign guilt to anyone before a trial is completed, but strangely that's what they're proposing, it's bizarre.
 
Wierdo said:
The gov is basically asking Carpathia to destroy valuable evidence, it would make a mockery of the justice system of the gov can just assign guilt to anyone before a trial is completed, but strangely that's what they're proposing, it's bizarre.
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lol...true!
 
jojo69 said:
How would you like to be a Carpathia exec sitting on a metric fuckton of assets you can't use and don't know if you are ever going to get paid for.
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My wife knows the owners of Carpathia, one of them use to be her direct boss at another company. They aren't real worried about it. :cool:
 
Wierdo said:
The gov is basically asking Carpathia to destroy valuable evidence, it would make a mockery of the justice system of the gov can just assign guilt to anyone before a trial is completed, but strangely that's what they're proposing, it's bizarre.
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Its not bizarre, its how the government operates. Overbearing, unconcerned with concepts just as justice or due process.
 
Thuleman said:
You, the taxpayer, will end up getting the bill for that.
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Ugh, just like we're hit with paying the bills for copyright enforcement.

Back when copyright was 5, 7, even 14 years, us taxpayers would get something back on our investment. We paid public money so that people would contribute to the public domain.


Now that deal is really fucking one-sided, where they get to use as much tax money as they want and virtually never give up their copyrighted works for a century or more.

Demand a 7-year copyright, reclaim the public domain.
These companies take and take, but never give back. They just keep paying politicians to raise copyright duration.
 
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