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Re:Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks to an Agree... by hkmurakami on Sunday October 26, 2014 @12:49AM (#8510255)
I'm not sure if this is logical or reasonable for me to think this way, but this whole fiasco is evocative of a terrorist threat.

I know that Twitpic "owns" the data and isn't beholden to users or Twitter, but their attitude really reminds me of a hostage situation.

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Re:Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks to an Agree... by jacquesm on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:46AM (#8510653)
If you upload your data to a server then that data ceases to be under your control. This is the major downside of any cloud based service and you're going to have to decide before you upload/invest if that's what you want to do.

Terrorist threats hit random bystanders in violent ways, this has 0 to do with any of that, everybody involved should have known what they were getting into.

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