Megaupload, for its part, says it will look after the servers but the DOJ and the Motion Picture Association of America, which also doesn't want the servers, object.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in representing a video journalist who stored duplicates of his videos at Megaupload.com, says somebody needs to maintain the servers considering that many of Megaupload's customers used the services for legitimate purposes.

The judge presiding over the case told all the lawyers involved to figure it out and report back in two weeks.

Maybe one of them will come up with the bright idea to put the servers back online for a short amount of time so that anyone who has kidnapped files can retrieve them. Doing so would at least appease some people growing weary with the government's forceful attack against a man on house arrest on the other side of the world.

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