Hmm... I'd be ill at ease if I were to retreive data that was stored somewhere on the internet 16 years ago. Things move to fast on the net for this to be a good solution

Since you mention photos and music, why don't you just bundle the necessary hardware : you could put all the music and audio in an mp3 player, the photos one one of those digital frames, or just get an archos or something that does it all. I don't think it should be too difficult to find a correct power source in 16 years. Though obviously, if you want to be able to retrieve the data from the hardware, as opposed to just playing / watching / ... it, that would be more difficult.

And there's the fact that you can't choose "linux" or a variation of the word as a screen name on Xbox live because it gets recognized as a swear word. There's an old slashdot story about it :

http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/09/04/2139204.shtml

But I must say, I don't understand why people are always so interested in stories of this kind. I once read somewhere that there was this increeeedible new easter egg in the OSX Terminal where you typed "bill gates" and it answered "kill gates". Turns out the shell used in OSX simply corrects spelling and suggests commands closest to user input. Quite frankly, I find these things get boring rather quickly.

You know, with cases like this, I sometimes wonder : do these people facing incredible charges - thinking also of that woman who had to pay quadrizillions for downloading one album on bittorrent - actually exist, or are they faked just to scare people ?