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Originally Posted by gmw
Mind you, there are some difficulties. Computer administrators are supposed to keep backups, and good backup systems keep multiple generations of backup - and they don't generally keep individual accounts on their own media. So, when one client comes and says "delete my stuff", the difficulties involved in making sure you have erased all copies of everything you have from (just) that client can be seriously difficult.
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The files could be backed up, but encrypted, and unreadable without the right password - which the person who doesn't want his works to survive would not transmit to anybody. So technically the files would still exist, but for all practical matters they would not.