An Ohio videographer has stepped forward to be the poster boy for innocent users who lost access to data due to the January seizure of Megaupload's servers. He has asked the Virginia court overseeing the case to order that his files be returned.
Kyle Goodwin runs a business taping high school sporting events across the state. He kept two copies of his videos: one on a personal hard drive, the other on a premium Megaupload account. But in January, disaster struck. The hard drive failed, and shortly afterwards, the federal government raided Megaupload. As a result, Goodwin lost access to hours of valuable footage.
With the assistance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Goodwin has been attempting to negotiate for the return of his data. But now EFF says those negotiations have reached an impasse. So it has asked the courts to establish a procedure for Goodwin, and other innocent users like him, to retrieve their files.
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