Protection From Online Eviction?

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 3, 2009 @10:01AM from the our-data-our-selves dept.

AOL has been shutting down its free Web services, in some cases with little or no notice to users, and they are not the only ones. This blog post on the coming "datapocalypse" makes the case that those who host Web content should be required to provide notice and access to data for a year, and be held strictly accountable the way landlords are before they can evict a tenant. Some commenters on the post argue that you get what you pay for with free Web services, and that users should be backing up their data anyway. What do you think, should there be required notice and access before online hosts take user data offline for good?

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Of course by Paradise+Pete · 2009-01-03 10:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes, absolutely. There should be a law against anything that might cause even the slightest inconvenience. Nothing bad should ever happen to anybody, and if it does, someone has to pay.
What AOL is... by jcwren · 2009-01-03 10:26 · Score: 4, Funny

...is the public housing project of the internet.
Re:Here we go again... by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2009-01-03 10:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Please tell me there was another sign in the laundry room reading

Rule 3: Always make a backup ( This is an offsite backup of rule 1)

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