I don't think that a new law is the correct way to address the problem. I think that such regulations would decrease progress and productivity by raising the

I don't think that a new law is the correct way to address the problem. I think that such regulations would decrease progress and productivity by raising the bar to entry. Perhaps in the future web services will start to make user contributed content easily backupable and transferable as a form competitive advantage. This wouldn't protect users from the situation where the company unexpectedly pulls the plug though. Should blogger make users save a full backup of their blog to their local disk every time they write a post? Would users see this as a reason to use blogger vs some other service?