New submitter advid.net writes "According to the registered delegate Press, user data from the recently-closed file-hosting site Megaupload could be destroyed as soon as Thursday. ostensively Megaupload paid another company to in reality store the data. 'But Megaupload advocate Ira Rothken said Sunday that the dominion has frozen its money. A letter filed in the case Friday by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern commune of zigzag fence said storage companies Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc. may begin deleting data Thursday. ... The letter said the state copied some data from the servers but did not physically take them. It said that now that it has executed its search warrants, it has no right to access the data. The servers are drug by Carpathia and Cogent and issues about the future of the data must be decide with them, prosecutors said."
There's also been talk of a lawsuit against the FBI over users' lost files.

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