> Wouldn't it be less effort to figure out how to migrate off? You can't migrate data you don't have and can't get. > It sounds as if you want to unleash the

> Wouldn't it be less effort to figure out how to migrate off? You can't migrate data you don't have and can't get. > It sounds as if you want to unleash the Spanish Inquisition. Forcing a company to face civil consequences and bad PR hardly compares with an institutionalized, brutal assault on human rights that tortured and murdered ~3000 people over three centuries, some by being burned alive. It DOES, however, bear at least a chance of the OP getting their own property (data) back from the hostage taker. Most importantly, by creating consequences for malicious action, the OP has a good chance (if successful) of PROTECTING FUTURE VICTIMS. When you're being attacked, you don't just lay back and take it because it's easier. You hit back, because otherwise the bad guy is going to do the same - or worse - to somebody else, next. “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, 1867