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

[Daniel]

Megaupload's shutdown poses an interesting question: What happens to all the files that were stored on the servers? A-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.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...d-service-dies
http://torrentfreak.com/feds-please-...upload-120120/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment

Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 20th Jan 2012. What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? 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 Rating: 5

[Daniel]

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.