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I don't understand why people feel the need to delete sites. _Why did this too, and I just don't get it.

I can understand shutting down the site. I can understand having new interests or priorities. But what I can't understand is why people can't just leave things in place with a disclaimer. This isn't 2001, bandwidth, hosting space, domain names, and disk space are all incredibly cheap. Why burn the bridge and scorch the earth behind you?

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Though its not explicitly clear, from the explanation link posted below it seems as if he did this due to some sort of allegation(s) of copyright violation?

"Stepwise consisted of thousands of files. I didn't feel it was possible to locate and remove the files that were copyright by a single individual."

(explanation link: http://abandoninplace.squarespace.com/blog/2009/10/31/the-de... )

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