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The more this happens the more I agree with Jason Scott that it should be illegal to allow data to be arbitrarily destroyed like this.
by bitJericho 12y ago
The more this happens the more I agree with Jason Scott that it should be illegal to allow data to be arbitrarily destroyed like this.
- tbrownaw 12y agoUsers can now export their photos until the 25th, at which point they’ll vanish into the void. Since you want this to be illegal, what do you propose instead? Some country's taxpayers pay to keep the servers up maybe? And really why should it be illegal, doesn't the government stick it's nose into far too much already? Do you mean illegal illegal, or breach-of-contract "illegal" (in which case, what contract)?
- yuhong 12y agoConsider sending a dump to Internet Archive.
- general_failure 12y agoThis assumes all data is public
- sp332 12y agoWell, all the TwitPic data is public.
- general_failure 12y agoSure but most services that shutdown have some sort of personal data or the other. You cannot dump them on the internet archive.
- kalleboo 12y agoIt would be interesting to see a form of "data insurance". Company pays insurance premiums by stored TB, and if they go bust, the insurance company ensures the data is kept hosted (be it themselves or by preparing the data and donating resources to the Internet Archive)
- toomuchtodo 12y agoAn Internet Fidelity Bond, if you will.
- sp332 12y agoThe TwitPic export page is giving 503 errors, so you can't export your stuff.
- warrenm 12y agoWhy should it be "illegal"? There's nothing wrong with things being forgotten.
- sp332 12y agoFirst, it's my data and the service should keep it instead of deleting it. If I put some stuff in a storage locker, the locker's owner can't just toss it in the garbage, even with 10 day's notice. Second, there's a loss to our culture when a huge trove of media gets trashed like that. It's like a museum deciding it's too expensive to maintain some artwork and just pitching it.
- MarkPNeyer 12y ago"it should be illegal" is very different from "it should not happen." if anything, i'd bet that law would just make a bunch more data disappear, as hosting any data for anyone else would now become extremely risky; you open yourself up to permanent liability by taking anything anyone uploads. who wants that?
- sp332 12y agoI don't think anyone said "permanent". But 10 days is not enough time. How about 6 months from the first notification sent to the user? And it should be extended if the export service itself goes down (like TwitPic's is broken right now).
- bitJericho 12y agoI'm ok with companies not taking data that can't handle it.
- wise_young_man 12y agoIsn't Twitpic a free service? You would pay for a storage locker right? Museums charge money. This stuff isn't free to maintain.
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