One of the most popular online file-hosting/content-locker service Megaupload.com had their servers searched and employees arrested in New Zealand, on January 19 on copyright infringement accounts. To users bad-luck, millions of user-accounts also got locked with this seizure without any possible way to retrieve their files, now there is some ray of hope to legitimate users having non-copyright infringing files in there accounts as Megaupload's hosting company "Carpathia" teams up with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to identify legal files and help users retrieve them before all illegal content is purged from the seized servers.

There are numerous automated download managers for Windows supporting major file-hosters like Rapidshare, Megaupload and Mediafire, but if you are looking for something which gets the job done on other platforms like Linux, open-source utility "Tucan Manager" would be the answer, developed in Phython the cross-platform utility lets users upload and download files on Rapidshare, Megaupload, Gigasize and Mediafire supporting both free and premium account functionality.

The fast and simple to use utility supports plugins making it easily extensible with other services, the application is in ALPHA stages and definitely posses a lot of potential considering its open-source multi-platform nature.