[148770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Jan 22 12:01:09 2012
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:58:49 +0000
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09C8CDBA@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article
<596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09C8CDBA@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>,
George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> writes
>The problem is going to be the thousands of people who have now lost
>their legitimate files, research data, personal recordings, etc. that
>they were using Megaupload to share.
But that's an operational risk of using any commercial entity as a
filestore. Thousands of people lost[1] a lot of work when fotopic.net
collapsed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotopic.net
[1] As it's getting on for a year since an apparent rescue attempt, and
nothing has emerged, this seems a reasonable assumption.
--
Roland Perry
