by leileilol » Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:24 am
An important thing to note - there are cases when some used hosted files for sending private files (pre-rapidshare age after all). Keep in mind that there' may be stuff not deemed for public consumption, like say, private sourcecode, someone's work files for a model, or something along those lines. I know a few people (who were hosted by gs) that sent private files through the hosted file system because email attachments for even 5mb files would be cumbersomely inconvenient.
Mass file archivery bears a huge responsibility. There's a fine line between preserving computer culture and violating other's personal rights, and there's a bit of crossing with it when you go by doing it this way. Would you archive a failing cloud storage service for "fuck your morals, this is internet history"? This is no different, even though the majority of the files have been made public for years, and IGN's owners may not even be aware of the privacy issues.
11TB is huge! Any /qca/ remnants?