"Dear valued Kodak Gallery member, As you may be aware, earlier this year, Eastman Kodak filed for U.S. bankruptcy court protection in order to restructure the company for future growth. As part of that restructuring, we recently announced that we would cease operations of our Kodak Gallery US and Kodak Gallery Canada businesses on July 2, 2012, as a result of a sale of those assets. Sadly, today, we must also announce that in order to best enable future Kodak success, we will be ceasing all other remaining Kodak Gallery business worldwide as well, also effective July 2, 2012, 9pm CET/ 7pm GMT.
Due to Kodak Gallery's closing on July 2, 2012 it is urgent that you take the following actions to protect your photos and projects. Please take a moment to: Download your Kodakgallery.eu.com photos or they will be lost
Complete any unfinished projects and purchase them
Purchase any extra copies of projects you've made previously, including photo books and calendars
Please note: If you use Kodak Easyshare software you will be able to download your photos until July 23, 2012, 9pm CET/ 7pm GMT. Click here to download Easyshare software."
Is there a moral to this continuing story? Yes. Cloud storage may seem convenient, but it's not a be all, cure all, end all solution. Make sure that you have local and off-site backups that you control. Just to be clear: the number of companies that have stopped providing services on the Internet probably surpasses the number of ones that are providing services profitably on the Internet (which means there's some in the middle "gray" area, too).