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Subject: [Leica] Flickr accidentally nukes user's 4,000 photos
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:23:58 +1030
References: <AANLkTi=MY_SoZET_c-djH7mmbWc-NYxLq-tMW2+AZ9mM@mail.gmail.com> <C96F55D4.4190B%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com> <AANLkTinqiAn-MH=dCyWyHCe4QMsayxbbo0hpfykMg1W0@mail.gmail.com>

FlickR is not cloud storage - that was my point.

Marty

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to disagree with Chris on this. Storing your images up in the
> cloud isn't necessarily a bad thing. I would not put them on a photo site
> however and I wouldn't rely on putting them just in the cloud. Dual back
> local storage and a drive stored off-site seems about right to me. I have
> two Drobos for storage. I have started to put high-value archival images up
> in the cloud, but I don't put them on a photo site. They go up encrypted 
> and
> they come down the same way. It seems to work reasonably well.
>
> Adam Bridge
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Chris Crawford <chris at 
> chriscrawfordphoto.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Agreed. Full-res images should never be put online anyway. Even if you
>> don't
>> allow the full-size file to be viewed/downloaded by Flickr users, the file
>> is still on their servers' hard drives. You don't want your files in
>> someone
>> else's hands because they could, as we have seen, delete them or they 
>> could
>> use them commercially without your permission.
>>
>> You want them on hard drives you own and for the web, you upload small
>> versions like the ones I use on my website.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Fine Art Photography
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>> 260-486-2581
>>
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com ?My portfolio
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> On 2/2/11 6:33 PM, "Marty Deveney" <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > The work and metadata loss is regrettable, but anyone who uses a site
>> > like FlickR to actually STORE their images is foolish. ?Some people
>> > gget what they ask for, some people ask for what they get. ?I have
>> > everything digital on duplicate hard drives and duplicate archival
>> > DVDs, stored in three different places. ?I occasionally wonder if
>> > that's sufficient . . .
>> >
>> > Marty
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:45 AM, bill pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> 
>> > wrote:
>> >> Oh, great! The guy gets his photos nuked, gets a halfhearted apology,
>> and 25
>> >> years free service. Imagine, will they even be in business even ten
>> years in
>> >> the future? Would you trust them again?
>> >>
>> >> Oh, well, that's what the guy gets for depending on someone else to 
>> >> keep
>> his
>> >> "valuable" photos somewhere else. Better thsy should buy him a box of
>> >> portable hard drives.
>> >>
>> >> Bill Pearce
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at 
>> >> gmail.com>
>> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 5:07 PM
>> >> Subject: [Leica] Flickr accidentally nukes user's 4,000 photos
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's every Flickr addict's worst nightmare: One
>> >>> day,
>> >>> the vast photo archive you've uploaded and annotated for years 
>> >>> suddenly
>> >>> vanishes. It happened this week to Mirco Wilhelm, when a Flickr staff
>> >>> member
>> >>> accidentally deleted his five-year old account, wiping out 4,000
>> photos.
>> >>>
>> >>> more here:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/02/technology/flickr_deletes_account/
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>>
>> >>> Sonny
>> >>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> >>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>> >>>
>> >>> USA
>> >>>
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