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Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down
New submitter craigtp writes: Wuala, one of the more trusted cloud-storage services that employed encryption for your files, is shutting down. Users of the service will have until 15th November 2015 to move all of their files off the service before all of their data is deleted. From the announcement: "Customers who have an active prepaid annual subscription will be eligible to receive a refund for any unused subscription fees. Your refund will be calculated based on a termination date effective from today’s date, even though the full service will remain active until 30 September 2015 and your data will be available until 15 November 2015. Refunds will be automatically processed and issued to eligible customers in coming weeks. Some exceptions apply. Please visit www.wuala.com for more information."
Who said it was? In this case you paid for space, and you got it. They are closing down and you get your files back AND a refund. I see no issue here. no different than if you had your crap in a storage unit and they decided to close down mid contract.
This is how a business runs, and when it closes, how it properly closes.
Your rational, sober, succinct and to the point comments have no place here. Or pretty much anywhere else on the internet. Or television. Or talk radio. Definitely not talk radio.
I've been using Sync.com for the past year. They've been sort of in beta but releasing features. 5GB free.
SpiderOak is decent but they recently dropped their free plan, so not sure what's going on there.
MEGA was great but Kim.com said last week in Wired that the company is run by criminals
Tresorit is good but expensive. Maybe that's why they've been around so long.
Bitcasa pulled a Wuala last year and closed down their consumer cloud storage after a lawsuit. That's pretty much it. There's OwnCloud which is do it yourself. And BitTorrent Sync which is kind of do it yourself but they've been adjusting pricing so it's bait and switch as well.
Wuala is owned by Lacie. Lacie was purchase by Seagate in 2014. Seagate has it's own online backup products. Maybe Seagate wants to eliminate a redudant or money-losing service? It happens...
Yes, the NSA is the bogeyman, and is a threat to secure encryption everywhere. But the invisible hand of capitalism can slap someone as well.
Did you know that Box's CEO pays himself a very modest salary, lives in a tiny apartment near the office, drives an old car, and got a very small stake in the IPO (something like 4%)?
The guy has been working like a madman for over 10 years. I'm not a big fan of him, I find him obnoxious, but he is definitely not a scammer.
lucm, indeed.
You can't even spend $9 to back your joke by buying the domain and putting up a quick website? Lame.
That's the problem with kids nowadays. No follow-through.
lucm, indeed.
afaik, they're swiss. not the parent company (lacie) or the parent's parent company (seagate) but wuala itself was incorporated in switzerland to give it some protection from NSA's claws. I think they simply priced themselves out of the market. I used to recommend them (their free tier was great) when ubuntuONE shut down but when they went for paid only accounts, the price was just too high compared to competition.