[Wittesea]

I have seen a lot of people comment across the BT2 forum that one of their main concerns about the BT1 crash is the possibility that so much information is lost and gone forever. Thousands of posts with invaluable information....

And then of course there are all the very old posts and info from the neuro-mancer server that disappeared a long time ago and probably will never be seen on the internet again.

My question is this - is there any legal precedent where a website or non-profit orginization has been sued and forced by the courts to release the lost information?

I ask because it was heartbreaking to me when the neuro-mancer server posts were no longer available because so much happened in my life during the time I posted on that server, and my posts there were like a journal and it never occured to me to back them up since we were assured that the info would always be available even after BT changed servers and software.

I assume that many other members feel the same way that I do about the loss of information and posts from the old neuro-mancer server --- and now with BT being down for so long this time it's terrifying to think that old posts and info could again be lost.

So back to my question -- could John be forced via the courts to (at the very least) release a disk of the old neuro-mancer server posts? or at the most make the old info/posts available again on the internet?

I'm not personally interested in suing for the information, so please don't think I'm asking this question in the hopes of getting a lawyer and suing BT and John. That is not the case at all. I'm just curious about the legal responsibility to release/provide the old info/posts, especially since a promise was made when the new server was set up that the old stuff would always be available.


Any thoughts?