22 Jan
2012
22 Jan
'12
11:58 a.m.
In article <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09C8CDBA@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> writes
The problem is going to be the thousands of people who have now lost their legitimate files, research data, personal recordings, etc. that they were using Megaupload to share.
But that's an operational risk of using any commercial entity as a filestore. Thousands of people lost[1] a lot of work when fotopic.net collapsed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotopic.net [1] As it's getting on for a year since an apparent rescue attempt, and nothing has emerged, this seems a reasonable assumption. -- Roland Perry