The government did not seize any of the Megaupload-leased servers. Instead, pursuant to the warrants, the government copied certain data from the servers

Posted: 2012/06/11 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Public Policy, Stats / reports

While the search warrants were being executed, servers belonging to Carpathia and leased by Megaupload were taken offline so that they could be properly forensically imaged.

Because of the large number of servers leased by Megaupload, not all of the servers were imaged by the government (based on estimates provided by Megaupload, imaging all 1,103 servers would have taken approximately 22,000 person-hours)

Much more:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/us-argues-it-shouldnt-have-to-give-megaupload-user-his-legit-files/

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