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'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season

Posted by timothy on from the when-backup-day-comes-too-late dept.

itwbennett writes "The creators of 'Zodiac Island' say they lost an entire season of their syndicated children's television show after a former employee at their Internet service provider wiped out more than 300GB of video files. eR1 World Network, the show's creator, is suing the ISP, CyberLynk of Franklin, Wisconsin, and its former employee, Michael Jewson, for damages, saying CyberLynk should have done a better job of protecting its data."

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  1. Torrents by White+Flame · · Score: 5, Funny

    They preserve culture.

  2. Re:World Backup Day by toastar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who's fucking idea was it to make April fools day World Backup day?

  3. Re:Backups by White+Flame · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good thing Torvalds never used CyberLynk's FTP hosting.

  4. Q: because it breaks the flow of a message by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Funny

    A: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?

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