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Maybe they are holding out that someone will purchase still? They lose all their value the second the archive team gets all their data right?

Edit: On second thought, I agree that it's probably related to the bandwidth cost.

Sneakernet could be a cost effective option especially for large volumes of data, and its often overlooked.

I wonder if the Archive Team has considered sending twitpic a hard drive and asking them to just rsync the data over?

Edit: This assumes that they keep backups of said data outside of EC2. Walking a hard drive over to your local Amazon DC.. won't quite work.

Amazon will provide drives for their export feature. People have already offered to foot the bill to have it done.

There are hundreds of TBs of data.