Megaupload: Erasing our servers as the US wants would deny us a fair trial
Found on Ars Technica on Friday, 06 April 2012
Carpathia recently complained that maintaining the servers was costing thousands of dollars per day. The hosting company asked to either be compensated for the expenses of running the servers or be given permission to re-provision them for use by other customers.
Megaupload argues that the government may have "cherry picked" the data that will cast Megaupload in the most negative possible light. The company argues that allowing the rest of the data to be destroyed will make it impossible for Megaupload to unearth evidence that could cast the company in a more favorable light.
Either the government pays and keeps the servers available, or it lets Megaupload buy them. Until now, Megaupload is still officially innocent and there is no legal basis for destroying its property. The entertainment industry just wants to make 100% sure that Megaupload stays dead: either win in court or destroy its business in case they don't win, leaving Megaupload with not a single byte of data and unable to resume operation. Not to mention that it would be destruction of evidence, which is pretty much illegal too.