Megaupload Users May Permanently Lose Legitimate Data

Now, that's something that I did not consider.

Megaupload's use of vendors to store data might have been organized in such a way as to keep their fingerprints clean. Was that a business strategy enacted early on or was that done in order to ensure that they could expand and hold someone else to blame if something failed?

The loss of data puts someone at risk of being culpable for damages. I would imagine that there is a desire to dump all of that supposedly pirated content. But, along with that would go an undetermined amount of perfectly legitimate stuff that people care about.

The government should put a hold on all of this data. Anyone who wants to retrieve their information should be willing to prove it isn't a pirated copy of a movie or a television show. But, what if this is really nobody's business?

I tend to come down on the side of "it's nobody's business. It's not Megaupload's data, it's not the storage vendor's data, and it's not the government's data. It belongs to the people who stored their data in the cloud.

Why shouldn't they be allowed to get their stuff?