A good idea from commenter Milkywayer
There should be substantial penalties for service providers that shut down or remove content without fair notice or an opportunity to create backups.
Could what TechnicaGratiaArs suggests below be feasible?
from ArsTechnica post and comments
author of the article andrew.cunningham@arstechnica.com
Ars Centurion
Could a subset of Typepad users request each of their own account's data be transferred to an independent Typepad server set up by that subset to continue operating? That subset could hire a team to augment or replace their own volunteers to execute the administration of the changeover.
Alternately, it seems a subset's members each could archive their own data sepatately, then the subset could populate a new server they (get) set up and operate going forward. That's not as simply managed as transferring the entire aggregate together, but it doesn't require any cooperation from Typepad's owners.
Indeed, that service seems like a steady business for an admin team serving each of these legacy sites as their original owners shut down. The trend will only accelerate.
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