[citation][nom]zybch[/nom]God, THGs writers (well at least one of them) clearly need to go back and complete grade school.Carpathia DO have the data, they just don't have any way to access it in any meaningful way.MU had a contract with Carpathia (and others) to provide server storage space.Carpathia had no dealings with users directly, instead dealing directly with MU.MU, thanks to the lockout of their funds, can no longer pay Carpathia for the service, so;Carpathia, having not been paid are free recover the space on their servers that MU leased.Idiots who used MU and never kept local backups are fucking tools who deserve to lose all their stuff.[/citation]
Thank you. Though some of your details are inaccurate, the overall point you made is correct. Carpathia has never deinied having content from Megaupload, they are saying they don't have a way to access the data to recover it for legitimate users yet. THG really needs to hire some better news people. This section has become an embarrassment for the site. Here is an article from the Washington Post with accurate information about what is happening:
http/www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/carpathia-no-immediate-plans-to-delete-megaupload-data/2012/02/01/gIQA1UnvhQ_story.html
"Carpathia Hosting, the company that has some of the data from the shutdown file-sharing site Megaupload, said Wednesday that it will not delete user information from its servers without notifying people at least seven days in advance. The company also said that it has no plans to delete the data in the immediate future."
That certainly sounds like they have MegaUpload data on their servers.
“Carpathia Hosting has no immediate plans to reprovision some or all of the Megaupload servers. This means that there is no imminent data loss for Megaupload customers. If this situation changes, Carpathia will post a notice at least 7 days in advance of reprovisioning any Megaupload servers at
http/www.Carpathia.com and
http/www.MegaRetrieval.com,” Brian Winter, Chief Marketing Officer at Carpathia, said in a statement.
That's an awfully odd way of "denying having any MegaUpload files" like this THG news post claims.