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Megaupload boss: Site popular among US government users​

May be tempted to name names in Justice, Senate​

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KIM DOTCOM - 1996​

By Ian Thomson in San Francisco •
Posted in Law, 12th March 2012 19:25 GMT

Kim Dotcom, currently out on bail in New Zealand, said this week that "Megaupload's legal team is working hard to reunite our users with their data. We are negotiating with the Department of Justice to allow all Mega users to retrieve their data."

In the process of working with the DOJ to help legitimate Megaupload users recover files, Dotcom claimed to have learned some interesting details about some of those users. The boss of the recently shut-down Megaupload file-sharing site claims that his records show plenty of US government users, including members of the Senate and the Department of Justice.

Kim Dotcom (formerly Schmitz), the portly potentate of Megaupload said, "Guess what – we found a large number of Mega accounts from US Government officials including the Department of Justice and the US Senate, I hope we will soon have permission to give them and the rest of our users access to their files." Furthermore, Dotcom said, "Megaupload's legal representatives and DOJ officials have spent the past few weeks hammering out details for allowing users temporary access to Megaupload-hosted files in order to retrieve them."

No doubt government officials will claim that these accounts are for "research processes", or owned by a few "bad apples", but it does seem that Dotcom is willing to name names when his case comes the trial. Megaupload was one of the largest sites of its type, and the fallout could be very interesting if lists of users are made public.

Dotcom is currently fighting extradition from US authorities in the New Zealand courts, after he was arrested with three others at a rented New Zealand mansion following an investigation by the FBI into the site. He is currently out on bail – despite FBI objections – and faces extradition hearings in August.

His main concern now is making sure users of the site get their data back, Dotcom told the blog. The government has warned that users face mass deletion of both legal and pirated content – something that the Electronic Frontier Foundation unsurprisingly has a problem with.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is also trying to get legitimate users their legal data back: they launched the MegaRetrieval campaign to make an inventory of users who lost data because of the government takedown. For now the EFF can't do anything until lawyers for Megaupload and the government agree.

"EFF continues to identify more people who have lost access to legitimate personal files," EFF staff attorney Julie Samuels told TorrentFreak. "Our goal is to help them get their files back as quickly and efficiently as possible."

"Megaupload's legal team is working hard to reunite our users with their data," Dotcom reiterated, "We are negotiating with the Department of Justice to allow all Mega users to retrieve their data." ®
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Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Government​

TORRENTFREAK
MARCH 12TH

Aside from preparing the cases of the Megaupload defendants, a team of lawyers is working hard to grant the site’s users access to their personal data. The cyberlocker is working out a deal with the Department of Justice to allow users to download their personal files. Interestingly enough, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom reveals that these users include many high-ranking US Government officials.

In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site’s users complained that their personal files had been lost due to collateral damage.

From work-related data to personal photos, the raid disabled access to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of files that were clearly not infringing.

With most of the news coverage focusing on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and the racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering charges, the fate of these users hasn’t received the attention it deserves.

By taking down Megaupload many of the site’s users were directly harmed. To resolve this matter Megaupload has been talking to the Department of Justice.

“Megaupload’s legal team is working hard to reunite our users with their data. We are negotiating with the Department of Justice to allow all Mega users to retrieve their data,” Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

Over the past weeks Megaupload has been looking into the various options they have to grant users temporary access. Interestingly enough, this quest revealed that many accounts are held by US Government officials.

“Guess what – we found a large number of Mega accounts from US Government officials including the Department of Justice and the US Senate.”

“I hope we will soon have permission to give them and the rest of our users access to their files,” Dotcom told us.

 

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