The US hosting company that is responsible for housing all of Megaupload's files is heading to court. The company is arguing that since it isn't getting paid for its services, they should no longer have to hold onto the files.
Carpathia Hosting is the US company currently hosting all of the frozen Megaupload files. At the end of January the hosting company threatened to delete all of the files since it wasn't getting paid for its services. A deal was struck between the hosting company and Megaupload's lawyers that kept the data safe for the time being.
Now it seems Carpathia wants out of that deal. The company claims it is spending $9000 US a day to host the Megaupload data. The company has filed a emergency motion in the US Federal Court in the state of Virginia. That motion has the company seeking protection from the expense of hosting the data.
Brian Winter, the company's chief marketing officer says,
"While Carpathia has never had access to the data on Megaupload servers and has had no mechanism for returning that data to Megaupload users, we have been attempting over many weeks to resolve this matter to the satisfaction of all parties involved, in a manner that would allow for Megaupload users to be in a position to ultimately recover their data."
"Despite our best efforts, the parties have been unable to work out a voluntary solution that meets the concerns of all the various parties who have claimed an interest in Megaupload's data."
"As a result, Carpathia has filed a motion in Federal Court seeking the court's guidance on how to proceed in resolving this matter."
The matter has yet to be resolved but I can definitely see this ending in a mass deletion of Megaupload user data if Carpathia is not paid for their hosting services. Do you have any data hosted on Megaupload that you stand to lose if everything gets deleted?
