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This isn't exactly a graceful shutdown. The majority of their files were already deleted in the past on very short notice. I have no idea who still used or trusted their service.

Rapidshare shafted their paid users long ago (announcing the deletion of files on short notice) then they came back with a business model that was not exactly well thought-out.

I see there's a few downvotes, no worries. What private company is going to be here in 200 years? in 300? I know the NSA-hate is strong here but it's not like you'd have to add the most personal information. Perhaps someone like the Library of Congress could handle it. I've seen far too many private companies delete data with little notice to trust them.

I'm not suggesting you treat it as a private diary of intimate details, more like a time capsule for future generations to read. How you viewed the world around you, how you viewed world events. Maybe allow people to put time locks on their posted info, so it wouldn't be public for X number of years.

I wish the US govt. would sponsor something for citizens to store a bit about themselves and their family indefinitely. Even 20MB or 30MB per person, which seems modest and feasible, would allow people to pick a few of their most important photos and write a bit about their life for the next generations to find. I don't trust any private company to handle this well when you're talking about hundreds of years of future storage.

One of my Filipino friends was doing this sort of work. She did it well and got paid well but she finally quit over ethical concerns. I would find it incredibly entertaining if customer records ever leaked ;) although there'd be no way to authenticate them.

Once upon a time when I was first learning to program, I wrote a Python script to download them from bartleby.com and make them into nice CHM files :) some good stuff

I like Cebu City but the internet is not always as stable as what you might find in the US.

I could see this being used in repressive countries to find devices or memory cards full of e-books and learning materials.

As soon as they have the budget, they'll be watching you ;) For the meantime, dozens of foreign intelligence services are probably picking up the slack.

Agreed, 3-6 months notice is fine. This is not a classy way for them to address the issue.

I understand people need to make business decisions but short notice on something like this isn't exactly a classy move.

I love the Wayback Machine, I wish they'd archive all pages though even those that don't wish to be archived.... keeping them away from public view until copyrights expire someday.

I would love to see it live on with no new unneeded features, no changes made unless they are to fix bugs. Keep a stable long-term product and get as many people as possible looking over that code for flaws.

You couldn't pay me enough to give up Visual Studio

I think my other comment got lost. I use OneNote and UltraRecall now.

I used to use Macropool ContentSaver (now known as WebRecall) and gladly bought a license, but I didn't upgrade when their browser extensions quit working in newer browsers without paying to upgrade. I had also moved on because of breaking changes to the underlying storage/functionality.

I used to use KeyNote also but I didn't really care for the underlying RTF storage format especially when it came to images... and the program had some other limitations.

http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html

I've had the opposite experience with Crashplan. Their software does take a lot of RAM though. I'm happily storing 3TB on their servers for $5 a month (yearly). I don't think that's such a bad deal.

No dangerous "dongle" jokes this year I hope ;)

When I made this comment, the headline was worded differently.

His biggest issue is he didn't have a CD reader? A basic USB DVD reader is cheap and sometimes quite handy. To say you lost your documents implies a lack of effort. If they were THAT important, you would get them.

As far as proprietary in general, MS Office has done a pretty good job other than their Office 2003 XML stuff which had to be broken when they lost the patent ruling to i4i. Anyone looking at document longevity now can easily use their XML formats.

One reason I picked Crashplan (same price, $60 a year) over Backblaze (this might not apply to most people) is that Crashplan doesn't remove your deleted files if you use the option. That allowed me to backup several hundred DVDs of data to Crashplan simply by copying them to my hard drive, syncing them, then deleting them again.

Google Drive has an API but it's certainly not meant for S3 use-cases serving content on websites :)

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/

When you talk about Glacier, you must remember there's no instant access to files and there's bandwidth costs associated with downloading your files. The price for storage may be the same but the overall costs of Glacier are much higher.

Flickr is also limited to jpeg photos only ;) and I'd trust Google for safety of my data (not necessarily privacy) for more than a crummy hosting provider.

Quite happy paying for Crashplan at the moment but Google Drive has the allure of instant access to files with a nice API... no heavy desktop client.... complete control how you access them.... I have 4-5TB total between my photography and other work.

This IS an Amazon Glacier killer if nothing else :)

Really hoping within the next 5 years someone finally comes up with the large capacity optical discs they keep promising. Bluray discs will fit in bank safety deposit but it's still a lot of hassle.

Popehat

It's just as easy to pay a monthly fee for Netflix, etc.... than it is to pay for a VPN (and properly use it, a small mistake outs your IP) to avoid being sued for torrenting.

Now... back in the Megaupload's heyday, things were a bit different. Lots of content, little danger.

Personally I buy most of my content :) especially any program that I actually make money using.

There's a lot of people who still suffer with bandwidth caps. I have 3TB stored on Crashplan but I still get nervous about that. Companies have disasters or go out of business all the time.... I'm considering moving to bluray + bank safety deposit box. Depending how expensive these discs are, they may be an option also.

Pretty happy with Crashplan but I might sign up for this also just to have some storage I can access via an API. Crashplan only works with their client and their client isn't exactly lightweight to leave running 24/7.

Unrelated to the robbery part, but if anyone is trying to escape the unrest in Thailand, the Philippines is a pretty cheap place to stay for a short period. Most people know English. I would opt for Cebu City over Manila but that's just me.

I have backups on Crashplan. I have a copy of my password database in bank safety deposit box. Almost all my local stored data (and everything sensitive) is encrypted.

ugghh, typing before morning coffee, I meant age large age gap hahahha