Hmmm, that doesn't seem like a nice thing to do. Duotrope may be wanting money now, but they still provided many of us with months of free services and introduced us to a lot of great new markets. In other words, Duotrope at least earned the right to keep old statistics if nothing else.
Again, I have not decided to pull my data yet, but let me play devil's advocate:
1) I paid DT for their services i.e. donated well more than $5/year they suggested and do not feel that I "owe them". I felt that way previously, but their obvious disregard for their user base and change in model have moved them from "that cool web site I'd like to support" to business transaction territory. And a business transaction is judged on its value. I won't spend $50 on what they're selling, just like I won't pay $10 for a really good cup of coffee, even if I might pay $4 for it.
2) I was interested in providing statistics not to benefit Duotrope directly, but to share the information with the rest of the community. Since DT is no longer offering me the opportunity to do that, why should I let them make a profit from my data?
In a way it's like writing a blog post. I'd gladly write one gratis for a popular web site that's free to read and asked for one... but if said site was behind a pay wall and asked me to write a blog post for them, I would *only* do it if they paid me.
Perhaps DT should reduce their annual rate by $0.10-0.25 for every reported submission recorded in the previous year/billing cycle. That way they'd be rewarding users who are most active on the site and provide the lion's share of the data... but even then it would disenfranchise users like Suzanne who are reporting quality data but don't send all that many subs out at one time.