Today US District Judge Liam O'Grady deferred a decision on whether Megaupload users would get their data back, saying he would consider scheduling a hearing at a later date.
A date for this later hearing was not specified, but it will likely determine whether the Department of Justice committed a search-and-seizure that would require the DOJ to make users' files accessible to them again, or whether "the court should treat Goodwin and other Megaupload users as unsecured creditors who can ask for their data back when the DOJ's case against Megaupload is finished," as PCWorld reported Assistant US Attorney Andrew Peterson as saying earlier today.
Still, Judge O'Grady appeared skeptical of the government's position that Megaupload was merely a service provider rather than a holder of property.
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