The US government knew they never had a solid case from the start. This whole situation was never going anywhere, it was created to disrupt traffic to Megauploa

The US government knew they never had a solid case from the start. This whole situation was never going anywhere, it was created to disrupt traffic to Megaupload (and it did), only the exact opposite is now going to happen. Megaupload are going to get a heap of cash back, Dotcom is obviously angry and will no doubt force Megaupload back to the top of the file sharing food chain before too long. The bottom line here is: the US turned what is a civil matter into a criminal one by dressing everything up in money laundering and conspiracy charges and it backfired. I'm no lawyer though.