FBI Ordered to Ready 150 Terabytes of Data to Hand Over to MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom

[rajeesh]

The MegaUpload drama continues to unfold. While the extradition hearing is not until August, there's still plenty of legal maneuvering to do. In a move that the US government is likely finding outrageous, as it's wont to do, a New Zealand judge had the audacity to ask the prosecutors to prepare a copy of the 150 terabytes of data found on computers it seized during the raid on Kim Dotcom's mansion.

To be clear, the data has nothing to do with the user data stored by MegaUpload, which the US government is also washing its hands off; this is data solely coming from Dotcom.

Granted, 150 terabytes is a huge amount of data for a single person, but it comes from some 130 computers Dotcom had lying around the house.

Plenty of that data is relevant to the case and may be useful in the extradition hearing. Apparently there are some 10 million emails in there, as well as a lot of financial data, the FBI, who holds it, says.

The judge ordered it to make a copy of everything it seized and have it ready in 21 days, so that Dotcom's defense may have a chance to look over it before the August hearing.

However, the judge has not decided whether Dotcom will have access to the data, but wants the US government to have it ready just in case.

Unsurprisingly, the government says it just can't be done. It says it took 10 days to copy just 29 terabytes and believes it is going to take some two and a half months to copy it all. But the judge is not impressed, he believes the mighty US government surely has the financial and technical capability to make it happen.

The FBI also argues that there is encrypted data in there that just can't be copied. Which is not really true, it can be copied, prosecutors just can't see what it is.



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[bidulet]

I love :lol:

I look forward to see how quickly they will return the data, as they were very quick to steal data even before the authorities of New Zealand allow them to take the data but to return them... ^^

[LeetPirate]

But the judge is not impressed, he believes the mighty US government surely has the financial and technical capability to make it happen.

ROFL ROFL. Yea let's see the mighty US gov't in action, I can't wait to see them waste more money on this case than any other case in history and then fail. :D

[dcs18]

Unsurprisingly, the government says it just can't be done. It says it took 10 days to copy just 29 terabytes and believes it is going to take some two and a half months to copy it all. But the judge is not impressed, he believes the mighty US government surely has the financial and technical capability to make it happen.

Looks like those Peeps never heard of copying utilities such as TeraCopy & ExtremeCopy.

[calguyhunk]

10 days to copy a few terabytes of data? You mean 240 full hours? :wtf:

What 'bout doing all that simultaneously rather than 1 piecemeal at a time, huh? Reduces your time by 1/29^th according to my calculations. But then again, what do I know? :dunno:

[voidoid]

The FBI must think that the NZ judge is a fool to offer him that pathetic excuse.

[jabrwky]

Kim must prevail over the arrogance of the movie and music industries who bribe U.S. congressmen and write their own laws.

[calguyhunk]

Kim must prevail over the arrogance of the movie and music industries who bribe U.S. congressmen and write their own laws.

Yes, but tbh, unlike the tpb guys, he was not doing it for any ideological reason. The motivation for him was singularly money. Also, it's a tad more difficult to side with Kim, seeing as he was a money launderer with links to cross-continental criminal gangs.

But the fact remains that if he were to succeed, it will be a shot in the arm for us :P

[Catoja]

150 terabytes ... thats a lot of porn xD

[calguyhunk]

150 terabytes ... thats a lot of porn xD

LOL! :lmao: