Tell HN: FileStack (YC S12) is holding my data hostage
I started using Filestack (then filepicker.io) in 2012 for my site https://fiction.live, basically as soon as it launched for file hosting. It was good for a while... then the price increases came in. The prices jacked up year over year while I was stuck in it. Then I finally had enough and left and am now using a MUCH cheaper CDN.
Now a couple of years later, I decide I want those files back. After all, they're my files and it'll be nice to have them for archival.
I email them to allow me to migrate the files away from their service and they refuse to allow me to download them unless I pay them $59.
Isn't that absolutely insane? They claim it's for "bandwidth" purposes, like 30GB of bandwidth costs $59 dollars?
It's a YC company holding my data hostage, preventing me from migrating off. Pretty sure that's extortion.
TLDR: All I want to do is to take my data and leave, but they demand payment.