Nirvanix Watch

Well, they got away with it

Autor tombassett

It appears that it is all over, and nothing can be done.

Mediamax/Streamload/TheLinkup - deleted millions of users files.  Then, over the course of a year, they strung us along, saying the files were in the course of being recovered.

Were yours recovered?    I’d say about 1% - IF THAT - of mine were recovered.  Meanwhile, they claim the numbers were around 95%.   Did you get 95% of your files back?  If you did, I’d like to know!

They brought in someone new, Patrick Harr.  He realized, I guess, that MM/TLU/SL was a sinking ship, a public relations nightmare, beyond all hope.  But he had a plan.

The company,  behind the scenes, got a bunch of funding and created a NEW company.  Most of them employees went over to that company.  They abandoned the sinking ship, and all of the customers who were still missing files.

Now the Mediamax/Streamload/Linkup ship has finally sank to the ocean floor.  The new ship, Nirvanix, is doing quite well - millions of dollars in VC funding, and a brand new identity - untainted by their major screw-up under the old company name.

Seems all our files really are lost forever, and there will be no accountability.   Sure, there are some scapegoats - mainly Steve Iverson, I guess - who claims Nirvanix has threatened to sue him, who claims they are liars who wanted to shift all the blame.

And why wouldn’t Nirvanix want to do that?  They have a chance to have a clean slate, a whole new beginning.    If you ask most people about Nirvanix, they won’t be able to tell you how the whole thing started, about their history as a company who created such a nightmare for so many.

Imagine that:  Nirvanix is essentially the same company with the same employees that lost MILLIONS of files.   They were an online storage company who failed at the one reason they had for existing.  But they expect people to trust them again, just because they changed their name and got a new president?

The sad thing is - it seems to have worked.    I will still chime in when Nirvanix news bubbles up in the blogosphere or wherever, and still track the news when I can, but I don’t see what more can be done.    Nirvanix lost millions of files, lied, cheated, and stole, but it appears for now they have won.