Retrieve Your Legal Data From Megaupload.com

From Wired.com

After the Justice Department indicted the top officials of the Hong Kong-based file-sharing site Megaupload.com on Jan. 19 and ordered a server purge, legal users of the site have been scrambling to retrieve their data.
Threat Level's David Kravets reported Jan. 31 that "a scheduled purging of Megaupload’s data was tentatively shelved Tuesday to give its millions of account holders an opportunity to attempt to retrieve their content from the file-sharing service." The hosting companies possessing Megaupload customer's data could begin purging data as soon as Feb. 2, as the Justice Department has frozen the Megaupload administrators' assets so they can't pay their hosting bills. However, it remains unclear how much time users actually have to safely remove their data from the service before the cloud evaporates.
If you are one of the millions of innocent Megaupload account holders and are wondering how to get your data back, here are some steps you can take.
This how-to was written by How-To editor Arikia Millikan.

Contents [hide] 1 Contact the EFF 2 Protect Yourself in the Future 2.1 Back Up Your Data on Hard Drives 2.2 Back Up Your Data in the Cloud

Contact the EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has teamed up with Megaupload's hosting company, Carpathia Hosting, to assist users in safely evacuating their data. While Carpathia doesn't have access to any customer data, the company has created the website MegaRetrieval, which points users to an EFF e-mail address where users can submit their contact information to request legal help from the EFF to retrieve their data.
From the EFF:
When the United States Government shut down access to Megaupload, a multitude of innocent users who stored legitimate, non-infringing files on the cloud-storage service were left with no means to access their data.
If you believe you are one of these users, are based in the United States, and are looking for legal help to retrieve your data, please email the best contact information for you to the EFF at:
Email: Megauploadmissing@eff.org
The EFF requests that individuals not send the details of the materials they have uploaded along with the submission of contact information. Also, you must be based in the United States to be eligible for their services.

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