An American judge do not know what should be done with the files stored on the servers of MegaUpload are stored. A former user of the website wants the files back that he has on the website.
The court in the by a former MegaUpload user filed lawsuit therefore seeks the parties involved, including users, hear to determine what is going on with the files. That have become inaccessible because the servers have been seized. On behalf of the U.s. government, the popular file locker MegaUpload taken offline and the employees were arrested.
The lawyer of MegaUpload wants, according to Cnet, the case seize to U.s. government officials that the action against MegaUpload were involved, to be able to hear. MegaUpload is not a party in the lawsuit, but would want to add. According to MegaUpload, is that justified, because the company, under the privacy legislation as the only access to the stored data.
The American public prosecution refuses to use the files of former users to give back, because that would set a precedent to create. According to the TO the in the majority of cases, to files that infringe on copyrights.
The United States want that a number of employees of MegaUpload, including director Kim Dotcom, and the Dutchman Bram van der K, be extradited to the United States. Due to irregularities during the search warrant and raid on MegaUpload is that uitleveringszaak postponed. Recently revealed that the New Zealand government illegally had drained in the case.