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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by DanielRibeiro on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:32PM (#1473802)
Guess TwitPic disaggres that "Every Site Should Have A Data Portability Policy": http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/06/23/why-every-site-should....

This episode can backfire on TwitPic a lot if users decide to leave it, and even more if Posterous decides to open source its TwitPic liberation tool to http://dataportability.org/. These were brought up by same guys from Google's data liberation front (http://www.dataliberation.org/), which is actually endorsed by google: http://twitter.com/google/statuses/17271511025

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Re:Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers by dmitri1981 on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @04:00AM (#1474189)
Good point. Reminds me of Mary Poppins where Michael tries to get his money back from the old banker and the resulting kerfuffle causes a bank run. I guess that is part of Posterous strategy to cause a bit of havoc and generate publicity and an exodus as a result.
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