MegaUpload: the search deemed illegal

Important information in the trial of MegaUpload: searches and seizures of property conducted at the home of Kim Dotcom were illegal.

MegaUpload file comes to an important advance, which Kim Dotcom. Indeed, the High Court of New Zealand comes to recognize officially that the warrants used to search and seize property in the House of Kim Dotcom during his arrest were not valid from a legal point of view.

Thus, all computer data seized during the searches and copies thereof on which are based the charges will have to be returned and will not be used as evidence. The U.S. Attorney and the FBI thus became to work without these elements. Of course, this does not sign the end of the trial of Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload, the charge well with other elements on which to rely. But it could be in these parts that elements justifying some illegal facts alleged Kim Dotcom and his team are.

We do not know for the moment, and the next big deadline in that case is scheduled for the month of July. In the meantime, Kim Dotcom continues to receive evidence of sympathy from some personalities of the world information, such as Kevin Mitnick this week.

Legal MegaUpload files can be recovered...

... under condition that the judge is in agreement and that the files in question are not subject to the rights of intellectual property according to the criteria of the MPAA.

On 19 January, the FBI closes the image hosting MegaUpload servers. Thousands of users found themselves taken hostage by the American authorities as being more able to retrieve their files deposited in the claimant.

Since a few months, the complaints of users increases, the other the technical provider that holds MegaUpload servers found with petabytes of data without being able to remove them because they are still under seal by the American authorities with a daily cost of $ 9,000 dependants for the moment.

But coup de theatre, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which is part of the complainants in the trial of MegaUpload decides to respond to users adversely affected in the case. A simple letter But it is not, because the MPAA wants to release the lawful user files "If the Court allows such a measure, precautions must be taken to ensure that no copy of content copyrighted on MegaUpload servers be made available to the all."

Need then to develop a fine comb to move to screen all the files stored to free one by one each file considered lawful by the MPAA and and return them to the bucket account. Something that millions of users will appreciate, although you will have to wait long before the situation becomes really unchoked.