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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), assisted by retired federal judge and former State Department legal adviser Abraham D Sofaer, will ask a federal judge Friday (Saturday NZ time) to order the return of data to Kyle Goodwin, a Megaupload user who lost all access to his files when the cloud storage service was shut down by the US government, the lobby group said on its website today.
Megaupload.com and related sites were seized in January as part of a copyright infringement investigation.
But in addition to the alleged illegal activity by some Megaupload users, many innocent customers used the service to store legal material.
The government has failed to help Mr Goodwin and other lawful Megaupload users get access to their data, despite months of legal wrangling, EFF says
In Friday's hearing, EFF and Sofaer will ask the court to establish a procedure by which innocent users will be able to reclaim their property, as is routinely required in the seizure of non-digital items.
The EFF has made repeated legal attempts to help Mr Goodwin, who is seen as a test case.
Read the EFF's primer to its case.
NBR staff
Thu, 28 Jun 2012
Thu, 28 Jun 2012
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US lobby group in Megaupload case over users' rights
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