Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, the two hosting companies hired by Megaupload, have agreed to preserve user data for a further two weeks according to Ira Rothken, Megaupload’s lawyer.
The two companies were yesterday told they could delete the data from Thursday onwards by US federal prosecutors, but talks between the parties involved have saved millions of users’ files, if only for a short while.
Megaupload’s lawyer yesterday stated that the closure of the site was tantamount to a threat on cloud computing as a whole, and withholding data damaged consumers’ rights and Megaupload’s ability to defend itself in court.
Today’s minor success will enable Megaupload a brief respite in which to hammer out a deal, though retrieving files for an estimated 50 million users could prove problematic according to a statement from Carpathia Hosting which responded to requests to return data:
“Carpathia Hosting does not have, and has never had, access to the content on Megaupload servers and has no mechanism for returning any content residing on such servers to Megaupload’s customers… We would recommend that anyone who believes that they have content on Megaupload servers contact Megaupload. Please do not contact Carpathia Hosting.”
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i hope they AT LEAST give us 24 hours access...i'm mad cause i had alot of stuff of on MU that i didn't keep a 2nd backup off (-)smacks head into wall(-)
p.s. if anyone is looking for a similar free host:
http://www.peeje.com/upload
imo it's better than megaupload since peeje gives u DIRECT-download links