To continue this conversation with myself

One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.

An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy.

The Justice Department said in a statement said that Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and three others were arrested Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials. Two other defendants are at large.

All good things must come to an end? And every single video in my Robin megathread is on MU.

I guess maybe I'll slowly start reloading them all on RS, since I'm still foolish enough to pay for their premium service for some reason...

They better not. I have tons of pics saved on imagebam, those don't have copyright crap on them.

Shite!!! I had hundreds of uploaded files on MU. Everything from movies to short clips to music and more. MU's links never died, which made It was the best file host site... what a tremendous loss.

I still have a lot of stuff, movie files and clips on mediafire, so I have been downloading all of my stuff back onto my computer in case that gets shut down too.

That's one of the big questions this brings up --
For all of the copyright material, there's tons of personal files like you're describing. Now that Megaupload's servers have been
cut off, and will likely be used as evidence, can the government be held responsible for all of that "personal property"
that's stored on them? Isn't there a risk of many thousands of people going after the feds because they can't access their files?

Any legal experts able to take a shot at this?

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I'm guessing they will put it back online and allow users the ability to retrieve their files. When they shut down the Poker sites after the initial blackout they put it back online for a couple of days to allow all the American players the ability to cash out. I mean if folks were paying to store their files on there they just can't stiff them like that, they have to allow them the chance to retrieve those files.

I think the biggest deal about MU was that it paid people back for hosting copyrighted files. Rapidshare and the others don't have a monetary reward system, do they?