VentraIP suing over butthurt
“I have just lost my entire business and now they [are] trying to sue me?”
February has not been a good month for Perth journalist Aaron Ryan, owner of the TVCentral.com.au website.
Ryan, who has limited tech knowledge, had only owned the website for about four months when a week ago it was lost forever after a botched attempt to move it to a new server.
And on Friday his web host, VentraIP, threatened to sue him for $150,000 in damages after he claimed the debacle was the company’s fault.
Looks Godwins law has been replaced with a lawsuit here in Australia. Fuck everything about this.
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Source fail!
dude failed to make multiple backups of his site before closing the account it was on. Then went whinging to Whirlpool et al because the ISP did what he requested. I think the term here is Epic Fail. Learn to Internets dude, and make multiple backups, preferably in different locations.
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However I was surprised that the ISP did not have some form of archiving in case they were required to produce the site in a law case, which I believe can happen up to 5 years later (IANAL so don’t take this for gospel).
First rule of computer science, never delete the old stuff until you confirm the new stuff is working. ( I learnt this the hard way
Source fixt!
I miss the days when people used to flame on. Too many thin skinned woosy bags on the net these days.
In my day….
Haven’t we given you enough butt hurt as a community arsefarmer?
I take offence at being called thin skinned and woosy! I’ll sue you for $42.5 trillion dollars!
So pirate, you got backups or should i start mirroring zGeek?
Especially after it was down for best part of the weekend.. I thought the latest bunch of pricks had won.
[quote]However I was surprised that the ISP did not have some form of archiving in case they were required to produce the site in a law case, which I believe can happen up to 5 years later (IANAL so don’t take this for gospel).[quote]
There’s no requirement to keep an archive of entire sites (and if there was, there would potentially be some interesting intellectual property and copyright issues to overcome). Best practice is for ISPs to keep and retain log files – but you’re not going to be able to restore a website from its log files! That said, if backups had been performed (on either side of the argument), there would be no problem.
What I find amusing is that VentraIP want to sue this guy for defamation. Amusing, since you can’t defame a business…
Word. Don’t let them do it.