When businesses shut down it's legally acceptable for customer data to be destroyed. Your pictures are just data, and if those images are so important then you

When businesses shut down it's legally acceptable for customer data to be destroyed. Your pictures are just data, and if those images are so important then you should have backed them up in another place. Furthermore I'm positive the EULA you signed when registering covers all of these events. Expensive artwork doesn't get thrown away, but you'd be amazed how often it gets donated away when a business can no longer operate and can't find a buyer. And this is art that has actual monetary value, not the random sorts of things that find their way to Twitter/Twitpic.