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Re:New Zealand Court Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to U.S by djsumdog on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:29PM (#13691106)
> they seized all the servers the business used to operate their business, not just infringing content, and then refused to maintain those servers

I had a friend who had a lot of his thesis research backed up to Megaupload. He ended up losing all of it.

Sure there was a lot of copyrighted material, but there was some legitimate content owned by US customers that's now gone.

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Re:New Zealand Court Rules Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited to U.S by dpark on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:11PM (#13691461)
>I had a friend who had a lot of his thesis research backed up to Megaupload. He ended up losing all of it.

First, trusting a site that existed primarily to facilitate illegal content exchange to hold your critical data seems really naive. Second, if he lost his data because Megaupload went down, that's not a backup. That's the only copy. This isn't just naive anymore.

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