datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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When the megaupload shit happened, I was using a smaller company to store my files and I had recorded an acoustic EP where I tried singing for the first time as a way to deal with a break up, I had it there in the thought it would be safe, I went to go download it incase something happened to them and they just shut down, no email, nothing.. not even the fbi raid image thing most sites got. They just bailed.
It's not the cloud. It's just some else's computer.
Sorry you lost that stuff. Did you manage to re record?