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Old 05-10-2015, 03:53 PM  
TheSquealer
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Originally Posted by epitome View Post
You've obviously never sued anyone.

Still though, OP should have had backup. Agreed to TOS probably prevents such a suit.
Yeah.... Obviously. Obviously I'm just making it up and you've done such a rock solid job of explaining why I'm wrong, how and why suing a hosting company is going to be a profitable venture for him. Let him know what a good idea it is to not only initiate a costly and pointless lawsuit but that it's a rock solid gamble to risk having to pay their legal fees as well (depending on he jurisdiction). Good job. Informative and touching (all of which assumes the legal jurisdiction is even I. His own country and that there isn't an arbitration clause in the TOS or gat the TOS doesn't explicitly state that he's responsible for maintaining backups of the servers contents and any other relevant out they'd include to protect themselves.
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