I don't have the article link but a piece I read the other day raises an interesting point. There were quite a few perfectly legal users of MegaUpload who were given no warning to retrieve their files before the site was taken down (some people use MU as temporary storage while transferring computers, networks, ect.) Are they going to get their 'property' back? The only way this can happen is if the FBI brings MU back up online.
To understand where I'm coming from think of it this way: You rent a space at a storage facility, legally, pay your money and stow let's say $1000 worth of furniture. The next day the facility is raided as part of a drug bust and the police have to seize every piece of storage as evidence in order to search for the drugs that are in 1 out of every 3 units. You have no drugs, you did no crime. As soon as the investigation ends, the police are legally obligated to hand back over the seized evidence to its original owner.
The FBI really stepped in the crap this time. I'm willing to bet there's a bare minimum of 10,000 legal users of MU. Amongst the millions of files that site sees they're really only left with three bad options:
-Waste large amounts of time and resources manually going file by file and account by account to see what is legal and who 'owns' it; then return the files one by one.
-Bring MU back online temporarily in order for everyone to get their property back; but there's no way to do this without activating all the 'pirate' links once more, making them guilty of the same crime they're charging MU with now.
-Do nothing, basically making them a corrupt law enforcement group which ignore the very laws they're trying to enforce.