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January 30, 2012 07:33 pm GMT

With Funds Frozen & Bills Due, Megauploads Servers May Be Wiped As Soon As Thursday

harddrivesFirst the US Justice Department raided Kim Dotcom's sprawling New Zealand estate and seized random items from cars to Predator statues. Then they shut down the massive website, froze their assets and threw seven men into a New Zealand jail pending an extradition trial. Dotcom and his cronies weren't the only ones felling the pinch, though. Megaupload's 180 million reported users were left locked out, unable to access their files. Now those files might be deleted forever as soon as Thursday.

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