Copyrights: Legal hurdles to retrieving users’ data from Megaupload
The retrieval of Megaupload users' data will apparently not be an easy process because of the fact that the possibility of a clash of interests of the users with those of copyright owners may pose some notable legal hurdles.
Even though a temporary respite has come for Megaupload users in the form of the consent by the two host servers - Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications - about avoiding deletion of data for another two weeks, it still will be quite an uphill task to enable the users to actually retrieve the files that they have uploaded on the shuttered file-sharing site.
The users had lost access to their files when the highly-popular Megaupload site was shut down by the Justice Department last month and the top Megaupload executives were charged with for criminal copyright infringement.
Despite the fact that Megaupload. com supported a number of legitimate uses alongside the illegal ones, the Justice Department had - while shutting down the site - drawn attention to the point that it had already been recommended that the users should keep backup copies of the files which had been uploaded by them on the Megaupload site.
With quite a few legal and technical issues now involved in the retrieval of the users' uploaded data, Julie Samuels - a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - said that the Justice Department has seemingly begun "productive conversations" with Megaupload about the manner in which to tackle the problem of lost files.
