Nope, and neither did the photographer that is being written about.
What isn't backupable, and thus is lost forever is all of the comments he had on the various pictures, all of the groups his pictures belonged to, all of the embed's of pictures on various sites, all of the social aspect of Flickr (such as friends, family, all of those things).
I use Flickr to share my photos with the world, but I keep a local copy of all of my pictures on my local file server and on my laptop and all of the backups I have of that laptop...
Isn't that on google? Or bing, since that's who yahoo uses. That way, you could get back all of the links. It would take some developer time, but that's exactly what's needed for PR.
What isn't backupable, and thus is lost forever is all of the comments he had on the various pictures, all of the groups his pictures belonged to, all of the embed's of pictures on various sites, all of the social aspect of Flickr (such as friends, family, all of those things).
I use Flickr to share my photos with the world, but I keep a local copy of all of my pictures on my local file server and on my laptop and all of the backups I have of that laptop...