Gawker writes about Yahoo’s apparently intentional deletion of Shepherd Johnson’s Flickr photos over some anti-war comments and a disturbing torture related photograph. According to Gawker, he now has no access to his account, and has lost 1200 pictures that he did not have backed up anywhere else.
…Johnson found his account was gone. There had been no warning of any sort from Yahoo, he said. Johnson would later work his way up Flickr’s customer service tree, eventually leaving a message for the vice president of customer service and other bigwigs. He even left a message for Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz — a noted fan of frank discourse — on Bartz’s home answering machine.Johnson, who lives outside Richmond, still has no answers. More crucially, he also doesn’t have access to any of the 1,200 pictures he uploaded to Flickr under his paid “Pro” membership. Many of the pics, he said, were “completely irretrievable — I didn’t back them up on any disks, I just spur-of-the-moment loaded it up and deleted the flash” memory originals.
This is exactly the reason we built Lifestreambackup. Mr. Johnson, if you find this post, please send me an email and we will provide you with a free account so that this doesn’t happen again.
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Very neat idea guys. Are there any plans to integrate with other cloud backup providers (who take care of the non-”lifestream” data)? I use ElephantDrive and would love to be able to keep everything in one place – since they are on S3 also, is there a chance at coordination?
I will comment on their blog too…
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