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I can excuse them for the "association with illegal activity"-part, but having only one copy of your data, located on such a site, or in the cloud at all, is ve

by Zirro 15y ago

I can excuse them for the "association with illegal activity"-part, but having only one copy of your data, located on such a site, or in the cloud at all, is very risky. It will be interesting to see how the feds handle this one, considering Megaupload was used for plenty of legal activities as well.

mootothemax 15y ago
but having only one copy of your data, located on such a site, or in the cloud at all, is very risky I agree with you, but think it's harsh to judge the users by it. It's not that long ago that it was nothing short of a miracle if the average home user - or small business for that matter - had any backups. In a way, I'm heartened by the progress.
- Zirro 15y ago
  Oh yes, if they were backups it's all good. But the impression I got was that some people had their _only_ copy of certain files stored there.
jiggy2011 15y ago
What I'd be concerned more about in the long term is if you don't get an option to save your stuff anywhere else. For example using a cloud application to actually do your work whereby all your data is saved by your app to their storage platform and there's no way to get it out. If that cloud app gets shut down because of SOPA or whatever then what happens to your data?
SoftwareMaven 15y ago
There is little question in my mind how the Feds will handle this. Kiss the files good-bye. Actions like these show the government doesn't believe all binary data has value. Rather, it shows they believe the majority have no value except for that distributed by the MPAA and RIAA.
droithomme 15y ago
Cloud storage is clearly being marketed as safer than self storage, with multiple location, site backups and even diesel generators touted to prove their supposed reliability. Clearly we now see that cloud storage is not reliable at all and can not be trusted because even though my data is completely legal, just because someone else misused the service in violation of its TOS, everybody's data property gets confiscated by the feds. That's not safe at all. Cloud is not safe. Owning your own server, at least you have control over what else is on it.

by Zirro 15y ago

mootothemax 15y ago

but having only one copy of your data, located on such a site, or in the cloud at all, is very risky I agree with you, but think it's harsh to judge the users by it. It's not that long ago that it was nothing short of a miracle if the average home user - or small business for that matter - had any backups. In a way, I'm heartened by the progress.

Zirro 15y ago
Oh yes, if they were backups it's all good. But the impression I got was that some people had their _only_ copy of certain files stored there.

jiggy2011 15y ago

What I'd be concerned more about in the long term is if you don't get an option to save your stuff anywhere else. For example using a cloud application to actually do your work whereby all your data is saved by your app to their storage platform and there's no way to get it out. If that cloud app gets shut down because of SOPA or whatever then what happens to your data?

SoftwareMaven 15y ago

There is little question in my mind how the Feds will handle this. Kiss the files good-bye. Actions like these show the government doesn't believe all binary data has value. Rather, it shows they believe the majority have no value except for that distributed by the MPAA and RIAA.

droithomme 15y ago

Cloud storage is clearly being marketed as safer than self storage, with multiple location, site backups and even diesel generators touted to prove their supposed reliability. Clearly we now see that cloud storage is not reliable at all and can not be trusted because even though my data is completely legal, just because someone else misused the service in violation of its TOS, everybody's data property gets confiscated by the feds. That's not safe at all. Cloud is not safe. Owning your own server, at least you have control over what else is on it.