> Are you really trying to say that if you start a company and want to leave, you have to shut it down? No, that was not at all what I said. I said that the us

> Are you really trying to say that if you start a company and want to leave, you have to shut it down? No, that was not at all what I said. I said that the user data is your responsibility, and you need to be careful about who you hand it over to. You've made the leap to a far more extreme position of "OMG, you can never sell or leave the company" all on your own. If you're selling the company for real, you're evaluating the purchaser just like they're doing it diligence on the business being sold. If they're a reputable and already operating in the same space, they can reasonably be expected to handle the site responsibly. But that's not what was being proposed in the OP. It was a suggestion to just hand the project off to anybody who wants to make a go at it, rather than shut it off. Do you really not see how irresponsible that is, and how different that is to an orderly business transaction?