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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Evidence by Aryden · 2012-01-20 06:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

As a point, the government will be using all files hosted on those servers as evidence in the case. They will not likely, and are not required to, give access to those files.
1. Re:Evidence by forkfail · 2012-01-20 06:45 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  That, in a word, is horseshit.
  The legitimate users of the service have lost real property without any intent to do wrong. The takedown was without warning. The folks who lost their legitimate data have had their fourth amendment rights absolutely trampled.
  And you think they should be grateful that all they lost was their data, and not their physical freedom?
  
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  Check your premises.