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Wait, how is this possible? I'm positive I read that the US government illegally seized all that data using forfeiture laws denying innocent users their due process. Where could I have read that? Oh wait, it was here: http://www.osnews.com/story/25557/Megaupload_Users_Could_Lose_Data_...

Maybe a correction on the original article pointing out that the US didn't seize anything, they executed a warrant that was sworn out by a judge (thus providing due process) and that once the relevant data was retrieved the servers and data remained in the possession of the datacenter they were leased from (thus excluding any forfeiture like activity from taking place)?

*retrieving

Let this be a lesson to everyone that you should NEVER put important data in the cloud without having a backup. This goes for email, contacts, and whatever else. Even when a site isn't shut down by the government, you never know when there's going to be a catastrophic failure and/or the site will close up shop overnight and take your data with it.

I suppose the cloud is a good place to keep backups of stuff, but really... when did people get the impression that their data was safe in the cloud?

Would be cool if they were called 'Electronic Frontier Federation and Union' or something like that.

Then we could all say "EFF U!!" every once in a while without offending people.

What a mess. I can't see innocent users losing their data because they picked the "wrong" cloud service (one that gets in trouble with the law). I hope this gets resolved so no users lose their data -- except for those who are pirating stuff.