MPAA Wants MegaUpload Data Saved for Future Lawsuits

[Leftbranch]

I think that individual users should sue the MPAA for theft of property. You haven't have it both ways, if the users stole their data, they are just as complicit as the users in the theft of the users data. I think everyone should take them to small claims court for the loss and theft of their data. Make the MPAA lose tons of money in fighting each case on an individual basis. Make the MPAA prove that their stuff was stolen and then counter sue them for invasion of privacy.

Just my $0.02 worth.
Leftbranch

 

[Yargnit]

[citation][nom]expensive_it_dude[/nom]For the "OMG $9000 a day" crowd, what you have is many, many servers (hint: They cost 20x what your gaming rig cost), expensive hard drives, and quite a few IT people making anywhere from $15/hr to $100/hr+ each to run it all, then megawatts of electricity to power and cool it all. $9000/day is a phenomenal price.[/citation]

But at the same time, just keeping them inactive doesn't cost anything but floor space. Turning the servers off means no needed, no AC needed, no support staff needed. If the company is still running the servers 24/7 during this time then they are costing themselves money through stupidity. And if if they're saying $9k a day based off what they might theoretically get if someone else came in and decided to rent the entire lot of storage space for the same price the second they delete Megaupload's data then they are spinning the crap of out the facts to make themselves look sympathetic.

Just turn everything off, lock the doors to the building, and pay a security guard $9 an hour to stand at the door and not let anyone inside. Now your costs are $216 per day per door. Don't turn the servers on again until the courts decide what to do with them. Problem solved.

 

[Guest]

yargnit: So then it becomes free to rent their office space, and they can just have a knee-jerk layoff of the people who would be running it? Even better, they can't repurpose those servers that they're probably still paying for every month. Nevermind the fact that they probably pay a shitload of money for some epic fibre-optic lines coming in and out the building, that are under contract and don't become cheaper if they use less bandwidth.

You've made it abundantly clear that your not a business person and don't understand how it all works, if I were you, I'd just quit now....

 

[falchard]

If Mega Upload is found not-guilty on this issue, I do believe the MPAA is through when they counter sue for detrimental harm to business.

 

[tassietim]

mmmm 66million people in one class action lawsuit against those holding their data and not giving it back ....

 

[tassietim]

i will accept $100 dollars for my stuff being held ........now times that by 66 million doing the same

 

[ithurtswhenipee]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]6000 hard drives @ 4TB each will do just fine.Let's see, at about $200 each that's $1.2 Million.Financed at 6% that would cost you about $200/day.Much cheaper than paying $9,000/day to host the files.I have a feeling the 9k/day are not realistic and more a PR stunt.[/citation]

The $9,000 per day is not just for the cost of the hard drives. The servers and DASD devices have a cost as well. And that is assuming that they are not powered on. Electricity, cooling, security etc all costs money as well.

 

[bak0n]

One of these days there will be a terrorist attack against the MPAA and no one will care.

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]ithurtswhenipee[/nom]The $9,000 per day is not just for the cost of the hard drives. The servers and DASD devices have a cost as well. And that is assuming that they are not powered on. Electricity, cooling, security etc all costs money as well.[/citation]

Partially true, but at this point no 'hosting' is needed, just storage until the legal issues are sorted out.