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Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Is it worth buying a few extra terabytes to backup? I simply don't have enough free space to even begin backing anything up.

For $50/year you can have unlimited backup of your local drives through the various players (I use backblaze, others say good things about crashplan).

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Waaaay too commercialized. It's like as if Pi day was brought to you by Wolfram Mathematica with a sprinkle of MatLab coupons. (edit) MathLab -> MatLab

Sorry to nitpick: MatLab, sans the h, it's matrix lab, not mathematics lab…

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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The legal issues behind this were posted here a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5449226 The original blog post was removed (for legal reasons?), here is the cached version of it - http://goo.gl/E1gKN

I can explain. It was just a misunderstanding with Backupify! Backupify is cool. The name was trademarked because some shady companies were creating ransomware/shitty software and using World Backup Day to promote it. The lawyer was just overzealous with the stupid notices. :( I apologized to Rob about the other day.

But anyone can use the name! We just wanted to protect our visitors. I am just a college student and the site was hand-coded & designed by this awesome redditor who just graduated highschool.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait a minute, didn't it start out of a Reddit thread a couple of years ago?

Yep! Well, companies were going to exploit it anyways. I thought why not at least screen them before. I'm just a college student in [redacted] and the site was coded & designed by a guy who just graduated high school in [redacted].

I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Yep! Well, companies were going to exploit it anyways. I thought why not at least screen them before. I'm just a college student in [redacted] and the site was coded & designed by a guy who just graduated high school in [redacted].

I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN

That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me.

Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'(

Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN

That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.

I'd imagine that you're suffering because the community in general is a bit skeptical about trademark enforcement issues, and the pump was primed with that Backupify snafu.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN

That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.

Remove sponsors from the site and you will be bathed in HN appreciation and support.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not convinced that "screening them before" should quite extend to the level of "sponsorship fees" mentioned here: http://goo.gl/E1gKN

That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.

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Re: Today is World Backup Day

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was for a proposed advertising package for reddit.com. That definitely isn't coming to me. Why doesn't anyone believe me? I live in my parent's house and I got a broken car. I love HN because it helped inspire me to do something. That's all. I'm almost crying here. :'( Please call me at [redacted] if you don't believe me.

I'd imagine that you're suffering because the community in general is a bit skeptical about trademark enforcement issues, and the pump was primed with that Backupify snafu.

I just wanted to protect my visitors. Companies wouldn't listen to me when they found out I was student. I hope everyone understands that. I'm just a guy in [redacted] who wanted to do something for the community. The designer/coder is just a kid who graduated from highschool. I want people to think our their data. Not to be the center of things. :(
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