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50TB isn't even that much for a large company. This smells like pure incompetence.
They should have released them as torrents, us data hoarders would happily seed some of it! It's probably mostly on torrent trackers anyway.
Couldn't the cloud company just sell them the drive(s) their data was on? Since they're going out of business and all. I mean what else are they gonna do with that data?
Afaik liquidation requires certain garantees of "highest price" like inventory auctions.
Regardless, a deal or notification could and should have been made.
Just goes to show the cloud is someone else's computer. A computer the someone else can do anything with, like declare bankrupcy and sell off.
So someone else bought the drives at a higher price.
So they could have been advised that the drives were being sold at auction and given the opportunity to download the data.
I would say they should not be selling someone else's data at auction, but then again, that's how Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others operate.
Exactly. The right and responsible thing to do is give users access to their data: give notice, offer a competitor's similar service or offer to sell the drives to them.
But reaponsibility is a high ask. Just start the bancrupcy procedure, sell everything off and be done with it is what most folks do.
The possibilities are there, but most won't follow through.
thanks, cloud computing.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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