The MPAA would be OK seeing legit Megaupload files restored

The Motion Picture Association of America filed a response to a motion to return Megaupload users’ files locked up in the United States v. Kim Dotcom case.

In an Eastern Virginia District Court, the MPAA asked that if the court grants users the ability to retrieve their files from the locked-down servers, no illegally downloaded copyrighted material be let free in the process. The original motion the MPAA responded to was brought by a man named Kyle Goodwin. Goodwin stored videos he made of local sporting events on an external hard drive and on Megaupload’s online file locker. His hard drive crashed just days before Megaupload was taken down by the Feds in January. Goodwin is just one user who lost irreplaceable files in the shutdown of Megaupload. TorrentFreak noted that “among these users are many people in the US military who used the site to share pictures and videos with family. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom previously informed TorrentFreak that at least 15,634 soldiers had accounts at Megaupload.”