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Keep Megaupload out of our server seizure case, US lawyers say
They don't want Megaupload to "pre-litigate" its criminal case
via Kyle Goodwin.  When the US government shut down file-sharing
site Megaupload, it also grabbed the service's US-based servers,
located at Carpathia Hosting and other companies. That inspired
legal demands from Kyle Goodwin, an Ohio man who makes his
living videotaping high school sports events, and wants his
files back. But the government shot back with a brief suggesting
that Goodwin wasn't exactly "innocent," since he'd also uploaded
allegedly pirated music files to his account.  Now Mega wants to
intervene in the dispute between the government and Kyle
Goodwin—and government lawyers want to keep Megaupload well out
of it. In a brief filed yesterday, prosecutors say that while
it's fine for someone from Megaupload to be a witness in
Goodwin's case, the service absolutely should not be allowed in
as a party to the case.