In a journalism textbook, this article would be an excellent example of shoddy reportage. Like many people covering this topic of late, Mr. Masnick unquestioningly accepts everything Mr. Snowden alleges as irrefutable fact. Mr. Masnick also speculates with utterly no attribution and then "reports" his own conclusions as "facts." The headline writer -- quite possibly not Mr. Masnick -- then compounds these flaws by making a factual assertion even Mr. Masnick's shoddy article does not proffer.
the fact that if certain files aren't downloaded in a certain amount of time, then they are deleted.
The DoJ is wrong. I had a free account at Megaupload for about four years. Stuff I uploaded four years ago was still there four years later. Megaupload said in their TOS they deleted files but they never did. I know this is true for other friends, too.
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In a journalism textbook, this article would be an excellent example of shoddy reportage. Like many people covering this topic of late, Mr. Masnick unquestioningly accepts everything Mr. Snowden alleges as irrefutable fact. Mr. Masnick also speculates with utterly no attribution and then "reports" his own conclusions as "facts." The headline writer -- quite possibly not Mr. Masnick -- then compounds these flaws by making a factual assertion even Mr. Masnick's shoddy article does not proffer.
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the fact that if certain files aren't downloaded in a certain amount of time, then they are deleted.
The DoJ is wrong. I had a free account at Megaupload for about four years. Stuff I uploaded four years ago was still there four years later. Megaupload said in their TOS they deleted files but they never did. I know this is true for other friends, too.