{"id":42475,"date":"2012-01-31T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42475"},"modified":"2012-01-31T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:47:33","slug":"megaupload-data-safe-for-a-while-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/42475-megaupload-data-safe-for-a-while-longer.html","title":{"rendered":"Megaupload data safe for a while longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a title=\"Megaupload\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/398275-Megaupload\">Megaupload<\/a> founder <a title=\"Kim Dotcom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/397721-Kim-Dotcom\">Kim Dotcom<\/a> in jail and many other top level managers out on bail, it seemed just a matter of time until the company\u2019s data was permanently deleted.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that there was no way for the company to pay hosting fees to Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, the services that host its data.<\/p>\n<p>However, managers at both Carpathia and Cogent have confirmed that an agreement has been made to preserve the data for a minimum of two weeks according to Ira Rothken, Megaupload&#8217;s U.S. attorney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hosting companies have been gracious enough to provide additional time so we can work out some kind of arrangement with the government,&#8221; Rothken said.<\/p>\n<p>Rothken also said that information crucial to Megaupload\u2019s defence may be part of the files at risk of deletion, and said that a solution has to be worked out to protect evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-57368635-261\/reprieve-megauploads-data-safe-for-two-more-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megaupload has said that its hosting firms will preserve the company data for another two weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":41789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8483,8485,8505,8291,8293],"class_list":["post-42475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-carpathia-hosting","tag-cogent-communications-group","tag-ira-rothken","tag-kim-dotcom","tag-megaupload"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42477,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42475\/revisions\/42477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}