The Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken a step in helping Megaupload users to get their data back. Although at the moment nothing can be done, the EFF and Carpathia Hosting have created a new website called MegaRetrieval in order to gather as much information as possible about the users who had legitimate data on Megaupload’s servers.

Carpathia is one of the two companies that were responsible with hosting Megaupload’s users data. Several days ago it has been reported that the two firms will begin deleting Megaupload data from their servers because the website couldn’t pay its monthly dues after the Feds seized its bank accounts.

On January 19th, the FBI and the Justice of Department took down Megaupload and arrested its owner, Kim Dotcom, along with several employees and charged them for copyright infringement and money laundering. The process will be very lengthy as the men still need to be extradited to the US. Anyway, Megaupload’s lawyers have convinced the hosting companies not to delete the users’ data for at least two weeks.

Now, the EFF and Carpathia want to hear the stories of the users who uploaded their personal files on Megaupload. The files cannot be accessed by Carpathia, nor the users, and the EFF believes that the Feds have committed an abuse of power, and the Bureau should have found a way to allow the users to retrieve their data.

Please be aware that MegaRetrieval.com doesn’t hold your data, and it’s intended to be a means of communication between Carpathia and the users. There are numerous legitimate files stored on the cloud servers, and the EFF will do everything in its power to pursue the Justice Department to allow Megaupload to retrieve the non-infringing content to the users.

Carpathia said that it will not delete the data for the moment, however, it things will change, then the users will be notified one week in advance on MegaRetrieval.com. The hosting company added that it doesn’t have a way to access the files on its own, and it’s up to the Feds to allow Kim Dotcom & Co. to return the data.

The goal of MegaRetrieval is to gather as many stories as possible from the users who paid money to use MegaUpload as their online storage solution. It seems like MegaUpload.com had more than 50 million subscribers when the Feds seized its activity.

If you had legal content hosted on Megaupload, then you should go to MegaRetrieval.com, and have your voice heard.