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If you haven’t heard, Digital Railroad is in the process of shutting down—quickly.
Stock Artist Alliance has some details here, and there is chatter all over photography sites about what went wrong, how poorly this has been handled and how angry many photographers are about the whole situation .
There will be time in the coming weeks to analyze the situation, compare different surviving online storage and marketplace options, but right now is a time for action. If you know any Digital Railroad photographers that may not have heard of this trainwreck and imminent shutdown, get in touch with them as soon as possible. Alert them to the current situation that their photos and records stored on Digital Railroad may not be accessible after midnight Pacific Time on Halloween.
Trick or Treat, indeed.
[October 31, 2008. Editor's Note: we originally published the above story on October 30th, 2008. As the East Coast business week wound down today we recieved an alert from the Stock Artist Alliance about a potential letter of intent from an unnamed buyer. Below is an excerpt of this letter from their website. Please visit SAA for the full text. -- Jack Howard, Editor, PopPhoto.com]
Memo from Diablo Management
Re: Digital Railroad
October 31, 2008
To Digital Railroad Members and Customers;
Digital Railroad (DRR) has been attempting to keep its servers up and running for as long as possible. However, given DRR's current cash position, it can no longer keep these servers operational. Therefore, as early as midnight EST, October 31, 2008, the DRR website will be closed and the images located on the DRR servers will be inaccessible. DRR apologizes for difficulties and inconvenience that this creates, however, without additional capital investment, DRR has no other recourse.
These images will be preserved on the existing hardware in anticipation that at a later date they can be retrieved by their owners. Continue reading the memo here.
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