MPAA to court: Don't give MegaUpload its servers back
Found on CNet News on Monday, 02 April 2012
Lawyers for the trade group told the court that they had been informed MegaUpload's lawyers had already obtained the data they needed to make their case, according to court documents. Regardless, the MPAA said that handing over the servers to the company risked enabling the resurrection of MegaUpload.
"There may unfortunately be users whose legitimate files are now caught up in the illegal activity of MegaUpload," MPAA lawyers wrote in their motion. "We are sympathetic to those users, although we do not know how many there actually are as the Goodwin brief only identifies one."
MegaUpload has not been taken to court yet, so for now, no matter how much the MPAA hates this fact, MegaUpload is not guilty. Ergo there is no reason to stop them from accessing their belongings. Also rather troubling is the admission coming from the MPAA lawyers that they have no idea how many legal files are stored on MegaUpload; because as a logical consequence, this also means they don't know how many illegal files there are.