Jason Dunn
04-10-2009, 12:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918355/' target='_blank'>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918355/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"A recent e-mail from Eastman Kodak Co. didn't lead to a Kodak moment for Vanessa Daniele. It got her angry. On May 16, the company's Kodak Gallery online photo service will delete her picture albums unless she spends at least $4.99 by then and every year thereafter on prints and other products. That's the new rule for people whose photos take up less than 2 gigabytes of space on Kodak's servers - enough for around 2,000 1-megabyte photos. People over that limit must spend at least $19.99 a year. And customers who signed up under the old rules won't be given a pass."</em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1239313058.usr1.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>I have a pretty simple rule when it comes to my photos, music, videos, documents, etc: redundancy and backups rule the day. And while putting things up in the cloud (online) is just great, it's simply foolish for that to be the <em>only </em>place they exist. I feel for anyone that gets trapped by service changes, but if you value your photos, placing your trust in an online service to protect and keep your images isn't smart.</p>