Kim's response:

Leaseweb says: "After a year of nobody showing interest in servers & data we considered our options." Data preservation emails say otherwise

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347417997901697024

Nobody should believe for a second that we haven't tried everything to convince #Leaseweb not to delete #Megaupload user data.

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/347420452462931969

They probably should have had this conversation in public first time round...