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Hard Drive Recovery - Privacy concerns

  • 21-12-2009 6:40pm
    #1
    Greebow
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭


    Hi folks,

    I have been backing up all of my media files to an external Seagate hard drive for about a year now. A few weeks ago I let the fecker drop. My laptop won't recognise the drive and it keeps clicking (always a bad sign) when it's powered on.

    I have looked into data recovery services and I am still trying to justify the cost to myself, as there is over 1TB of data on the drive that I would hate to lose. When I was talking to a friend about this, he raised an interesting point.

    Would I be opening myself up to legal trouble if the data recovery company came across pirated material on my drive (of which of course, I have none). The majority of these companies have standard data privacy blurbs on their website, but I'm not sure if data privacy extends to pirated material.

    Does anyone have any previous experience of this?


Comments

  • #2
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    if you have none what are you worrying about?


  • #3
    Greebow
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭Greebow


    It's an interesting question


  • #4
    T-Square
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭T-Square


    If you have pirated videos/games on the drive,
    ~You have nothing to worry about~
    the recovery company/person aren't going to say anything.
    Bad for their business you see.

    If you have ~any~ kiddie filth on the drive,
    the cops will be outside your door within 15 minutes of it being found.


  • #5
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    I doubt anybody really cares Greebow - I'd say it would take a right Oddball to report anyone over a few Movies and Mp3s from Torrents/Usenet...... Chances are they do this themselves and share it around the Office - They'll take a copy of anything decent you have too and send you back your data intact......


  • #6
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    Who's to say you have infringed the copyrighted, you could of bought them.


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  • #7
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    EKRIUQ wrote: »
    Who's to say you have infringed the copyrighted, you could of bought them.

    Might be the case for some stuff, but a screener/region 5 dvd rip will quite obviously have been downloaded illegitimately...

    I personally wouldn't worry about that though - they would have to be complete cowboys to not fully comply to data privacy (unless kiddy porn is involved, in which case you would hope that they break that rule...)


  • #8
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Who would they alert? The copyright owner?

    Copyright law is civil, not criminal. The cops don't care (unless you don't turn up to court!)


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