Shutting Down Megaupload Caused a Lot of People a Lot of Grief

When you think about it, isn't it possible that Megaupload had legitimate uses?

Absolutely. I have not doubt that there were people who were using it to share files that were not illegal in any way and that were too large to share otherwise. If you think about video projects, coding, and development work being shared via Megaupload with only the links (and passwords) being shared between users, sure. It's entirely possible that the side had legitimate uses. Everything that those users were sharing is pretty much locked down and gone now; getting their legitimate work back might prove to be impossible. It might be years before the case is resolved. What good is their work going to be when they finally get access to it?

I think that this fact is going to cause the government's case to have a lot of legalese thrown at it. If a site has legitimate uses, I don't think it can be shut down entirely. I think that the illegal uses of Megaupload were probably pretty vast and undocumented, but who knows for certain?

The shutdown of the site left people who had been paying for access to the site in the lurch; it left files locked in the hands of the government. A good number of those people have been angry since the moment they lost their access.