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

 

[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.

 

[LuDo8]

Put enough heat and they will cave in that's the American way.

If you stay quiet they won't acknowledge it, if you get vocal, protest, demonstrate, and bring publicity that is the kind of heat they DON'T like and they will give-in.

It pays to be a loudmouth in cases like this. It's all about twisting the law, and sliding some money to the right people to get them to "understand" your point of view.

 

[Bretteo]

i highly doubt we going to do a mass paypal to slide them money for our files back, especially after paying for a frikking premium account i barely got the use of

 

[michaellin85]

loudmouth will do the job? i don't think so, not to the US government.

 

[LEVAC109]

I did not think US is this corrupted. Who the **** they think they are?

 

[Bretteo]

it's all a load of hype, we will have to wait and see what happens

 

[WDF]

I think you are living in a dream world or need to seek professional help for delusional thoughts if you think that this will change anything or there is proper legal grounds to bring suit against the FBI or any other government agency of any state or country that performs a raid or closure of any company involved in criminal activity.

This story only says Legal Groups are interested but notice none are coming forward to file an actual court action. No attorney will touch this as a class action because there will be people that uploaded copyright protected works that do not belong to them trying to join the suit.

I read that there have been about 690 servers Mega Upload was using seized and it is thought less then 10 percent of what is on those server is the service users original personally owned content.


This is a group of people looking for their 15 minutes of fame and some attention by any means.

I guess the writer and the Pirate Party could be considered Attention Whores.

As the Human Torch says "Flame On"!

 

[Belowthebelt]

I am sure MU retained the right to delete anything they wanted from there servers whenever they seen fit to do so...

This will be a non starter....

 

[KoKs]

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

Source, or gtfo

 

[Web2011]

LOLOLOL

They could sue Megaupload.

No way the feds are to blame for how the site was operated and how it was sold to the public as an innocent back-up service.

 

[Prazsky]

Lol these pirate parties are delusional. Megaupload wasn't a cloud backup service. They provided no guarantees for your files. They could shut down your account and erase your files at any times they desired and you couldn't do shit because their TOS had them covered.

Their case is definitely not gonna hold up in court. Feds also have the right to shut down criminal organizations irrespective of what legal contracts you had with them.