MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files

[outbreak]

In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven.

However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections.

As of today, these people are still unsure whether they will ever get their personal belongings back.

In a response, Pirate Parties worldwide have started to make a list of all the people affected by the raids, and they are planning to file an official complaint against the US authorities.

?The widespread damage caused by the sudden closure of Megaupload is unjustified and completely disproportionate to the aim intended,? they announce.

?For this reason Pirates of Catalonia, in collaboration with Pirate Parties International and other Pirate Parties, have begun investigating these potential breaches of law and will facilitate submission of complaints against the US authorities in as many countries as possible, to ensure a positive and just result.?

?This initiative is a starting point for legitimate internet users to help defend themselves from the legal abuses promoted by those wishing to aggressively lock away cultural materials for their own financial gain.?

Legal experts and citizen rights groups have taken an interest in the issue as well, TorrentFreak learned. The Pirate Parties are the first to make an inventory of the damage, but not the last.

Source: TorrentFreak

outbreak Reviewed by outbreak on 27th Jan 2012. MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven. However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections. As of today, these people are still unsure whether they will ever get their personal belongings back. In a response, Pirate Parties worldwide have started to make a list of all the people affected by the raids, and they are planning to file an Rating: 5

[Bretteo]

I was wondering how long this would take, i had a bunch of files hosted there that im never getting back, about freaking time!

[nForc3r]

Hmmm, interesting how this unfolds

[Bretteo]

i wonder how they will reimburse lost files

[cvrle77]

nothing will happen, no one sues USA.

However, I wish it does.

[outbreak]

I don't think that the feds deleted any files.
Some smaller business were using MU so their law suit has a strong point but I fear that the feds are gonna have it their way.

[michaellin85]

come on they'll just put a show on for all of us but it's not going to get anywhere. it is the U S and A after all.

[Bretteo]

But surely people have the right to have there files back?

[Daniel]

I had videos I made, plus sound files of my original music so ... yes ... we did own the copyrights. (Naturally they weren't the only copies, but it's the principle of the thing).

[outbreak]

Out of 150 million MU users, there were at least 10 million who used MU legally, for their own files.