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Subject: [Leica] Flickr accidentally nukes user's 4,000 photos
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:32:02 -0800
References: <AANLkTi=MY_SoZET_c-djH7mmbWc-NYxLq-tMW2+AZ9mM@mail.gmail.com> <C96F55D4.4190B%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

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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> 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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