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Megaupload Users Can't Retrieve Data
- Arstechnica, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 3:43 PM
A federal appellate court has refused to intervene in a dispute over whether a user of the defunct cyberlocker Megaupload can retrieve his data. The user, Kyle Goodwin, lost access to the material more than five years ago, when the federal government indicted Megaupload's executives for criminal copyright infringement and shut down the service. Represented by the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, he sought a return of his files. The trial judge never held a hearing on that request, prompting the EFF to ask the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene. That court refused to do so on Friday.
