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A man who runs an Ohio sports website, and stored?video from it on Megaupload's servers, is asking the court to give back?his video files, held captive as the U.S. pursues copyright infringement charges against Megaupload.?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is representing Kyle?Goodwin, who operates OhioSportsNet, a website that reports on high school sports in that state. The EFF is asking the court to unfreeze Goodwin's video files, being held along with the files?of other "lawful" Megaupload users, by a Virginia-based company, Carpathia Hosting.

Carpathia Hosting itself filed an emergency motion last month in federal court, seeking help from the federal government for the cost of hosting the data of more than 60 million Megaupload users. The company says it's using more than 1,100 servers to store 25 million gigabytes of data, at a cost of $9,000 a day since January, when authorities shut down Megaupload. Carpathia said at that time it would work with the EFF to try to keep the data, rather than delete it.

The federal government says Megaupload facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content, costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. Although the site is based in Hong Kong, it was using servers in Virginia for part of its business. The U.S. is also attempting to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom from New Zealand, where he remains under house arrest.

Carpathia Hosting, in its court request, said it wants an approved procedure in place for customers like Goodwin who want to get their files back before they are deleted. The EFF filed a brief in support of that motion, and is asking the court to expedite the "return of rightful property to Goodwin and other lawful Megaupload users," the organization said in a release.

The EFF says Goodwin stored his video footage on Megaupload's servers "as a backup to his hard drive." After the January shutdown of Megaupload, Goodwin's hard drive crashed, and "he could not get access to any of his own vide files, which he needed to conduct his business."

"Mr. Goodwin has suffered a significant loss to his business, through no fault of his own." said Corynne McSherry, the EFF's intellectual property director.?"Megaupload's innocent users deserve an opportunity to get their important data back before it's destroyed forever."

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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD ON THE LEGAL EDUCATION BUBBLE: First, let?s indenture all the lawyers.

In other words, for many young Americans, going to law school will mean literally signing away their financial independence for the rest of their adult lives. They will spend the next twenty-five years of their lives (if they never earn more than their Income-Based Repayment amount) ? ten years if they work in public service ? servicing debt they incurred for a skill that didn?t pay off. They might spend even longer before they are ever in the clear if they took those federal loans out before 2009 (when IBR kicked in), or if they have high interest private loans.

This isn?t just a problem for the people involved. The result is a situation no one wants: young people who aren?t in a financial position to make major steps in life ? marriage, purchasing a home, having children, or saving for retirement ? because they spend the majority of their life financing a decision they made at 22.

Read the whole thing ? especially if you?re considering law school. I wouldn?t advise people not to go to law school, necessarily, but I would advise almost anyone to avoid taking on significant debt to do so.

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Revel, Atlantic City's newest casino set to open

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ? Michael Garrity recalls sitting on a pile of dirt at the end of the Atlantic City Boardwalk in 2006 with Kevin DeSanctis, a former New Jersey state trooper and casino executive. Morgan Stanley, Garrity's Wall Street investment firm, had just lined up land for what would become Revel, a new casino resort.

The economy was humming along and Atlantic City's casino revenues were at their height. Yet sitting on that dirt pile, DeSanctis was already thinking several years ahead.

"He said, 'The last thing Atlantic City needs right now is a new casino,'" recalled Garrity, who is now Revel's chief investment officer.

So they set out to build something that was not just a casino but a true destination resort, a glittering glass-encased vacation and meeting mecca that just happened to offer casino gambling.

Monday morning, when the sun comes up, Revel will have arrived. A sunrise champagne toast will officially open the facility. Six years and $2.4 billion after the two men sat atop that dirt pile, it becomes Atlantic City's 12th casino ? one that is being counted on to help revive the sagging fortunes of the nation's second-largest gambling market.

"The real issue is: Can you maintain the interest and the excitement?" DeSanctis said. "If we can do that, then I'm not worried. This is going to be a great resort."

That was certainly the verdict from Margy Woolsey, an Atlantic City resident who was among 5,000 invitation-only guests last week for the first of three trial-run gambling nights at Revel, to see how equipment, systems and personnel would work under real-world pressures.

"It's got that wow factor," she said between a string of winning hands of electronic blackjack. "I usually play at Harrah's, but this is my place now."

Revel is Atlantic City's only non-smoking casino resort, and the only one to fully embrace the ocean, with floor-to-ceiling views of the coast that are considered a no-no in other gambling halls. It was designed to appear as if its foundation had been gently sculpted by waves, and a newly replenished beach is a key attraction.

Gambling is only part of the $2.4 billion resort; it also has a luxurious spa, 14 restaurants, 10 pools and a theater with 5,050 seats that will host Beyonc? on Memorial Day weekend.

It has 2,450 slot machines and 160 table games. Its hotel, when fully open later this year, will have 1,898 rooms. Revel will employ about 5,500 full and part-time employees.

Located at the extreme northern end of the Boardwalk, next to the Showboat Casino Hotel, Revel is the first Atlantic City casino to open since its main rival, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, debuted in 2003. With its angular slanted roof and its giant white light-up ball atop the 47-story structure ? the second-tallest in New Jersey at 710 feet ? Revel is already an iconic presence here.

Revel had to overcome numerous obstacles in order to reach Monday's opening. Three key executives working on the project died in a Minnesota plane crash in July 2008; a worker pouring concrete was struck by lightning and killed last September.

The project ran out of money during the recession and had to stop construction halfway through. Morgan Stanley pulled out, taking a $1.2 billion loss on the project. It only got completed with the help of state tax incentives that were approved in February 2011. That came amid bitter opposition from the city's main casino union, which is livid that Revel has not signed a contract with its hotel and service industry workers, and filed several lawsuits seeking to thwart government assistance to the project.

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Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC.

Associated Press

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