What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:07AM from the apocalypse-and-doom dept.

MrSeb writes "Megaupload's shutdown poses an interesting question: What happens to all the files that were stored on the servers? XDA-Developers, for example, has more than 200,000 links to Megaupload — and this morning, they're all broken, with very little hope of them returning. What happens if a similar service, like Dropbox, gets shut down — either through bankruptcy, or federal take-down? Will you be given a chance to download your files, or helped to migrate them to another similar service? What about data stored on enterprise services like Azure or AWS — are they more safe?" And if you're interested, the full indictment against Megaupload is now available.

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Ummm, by AlienIntelligence · 2012-01-20 06:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What the hell do you think happens to them it's like when somebody dies.
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Re:Files = Pokemon by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-20 06:20 · Score: 0, Flamebait

nobody knows what the hell you're talking about