I kept thinking about all the mods one of the game site members wrote that he lost in the Megaupload take down. I kept thinking about “How would I feel if all my ‘shops’ got lost or if this happened to all of a friend’s stuff?”
I’d feel pretty badly. Work and creative effort are what they are. So when I saw an article about this at ars, I knew I had to write this in the hopes it’ll help one of the folks I know (or don’t know) retrieve his or her valuable property… or anything important stored there.
Megaupload hosted legitimate, innocent files among “other items” such as pirated media and hacked software [and who knows what else].
This is to help folks try and retrieve legitimate art, data and whatever else (again, legal) they might have stored there.
Carpathis Hosting (the Virginia company which leased 600 servers to Megaupload) has joined forces with the EFF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) to collect the summaries of people who want to claim their legitimate property from Megaupload’s rented servers.
No promises. Megaretrieval.com has no direct access to those servers, and neither does Carpathia Hosting.
"Carpathia does not have access to any data for Megaupload customers," wrote Brian Winter of Carpathia. "We have no immediate plans to reprovision some or all of the Megaupload servers. This means that there is no imminent data loss for Megaupload customers. If this situation changes, we will post a notice at least 7 days in advance of reprovisioning any Megaupload servers at www.Carpathia.com and www.MegaRetrieval.com." - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/megauploads-hosting-company-teams-up-with-eff-to-identify-legal-files.ars
“EFF is troubled that so many lawful users of Megaupload.com had their property taken from them without warning and that the government has taken no steps to help them. We think it's important that these users have their voices heard as this process moves forward.” - Julie Samuels, Staff Attorney at EFF http://www.megaretrieval.com/
So if you’re an innocent victim in all this, someone is thinking about you and your property isn’t necessarily lost. Get busy. Put your story together and go to the Megaretrieval site.
Hope this helps…
And folks… this just shows why you should have (even in the burgeoning “Age of The Cloud”) have a physical copy in your possession.
Source:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/megauploads-hosting-company-teams-up-with-eff-to-identify-legal-files.ars
https://www.eff.org/about
http://www.megaretrieval.com/