Originally posted by: dew042
There's no indication that CW doesn't have a backup of the data--it's just that LS is holding it all, legal or not.
then explain why they need everyone to recreate their accounts? if they had a backup that would not be neccesary, eh?
dew.
Hello! If lightship is holding it, then CW can't get at it.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "having a backup." It seems they
made and
own a backup which is still fully intact, but Lightship
has it now.
I don't know why people are expressing deep surprise over this, since this "LS is holding it" theory was long the obvious one to those who know what's going on. This has been the talk for days with suspicions for a week or two.
The one
actual surprise is that Shawn gave the impression, obviously, that he was going to be able to retrieve the stuff over the weekend. Presumably his counsel gave him that advice, and he was very confident of it. But counsel was wrong, it seems.
It wouldn't stun me if this decision reverses in the future, that is, that LS will be forced under court order to release CW's property (that, stunningly, they even freely admit is CW property, according to e-maisl enclosed in previous posts in this forum!). But our court system is slow, as a rule (see my previous post), and Cyberwings apparently is not about to wait.
None of my comments are based on inside information--just seems like the obvious analysis, and aside from the very unfortunate (il)legal surprise, pretty much what the most cogent folks have been saying is happening all along. (But the S/N ratio of this thread is much lower than average.)