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Cloud storage is likely something that could make a dent into the US market now. Surely they've got big players in Europe that would be happy to expand to a new
by goostavos 13y ago
Cloud storage is likely something that could make a dent into the US market now. Surely they've got big players in Europe that would be happy to expand to a new customer base. Give me something that has Dropbox's cross-platform functionality, and throw in a fun tag line informing me that they _don't_ hand over my data to the NSA, and yeah, I'd happily make the switch. If only to feel .01% like I 'stuck it to the man.'
- jauer 13y agoUltimately any sufficiently popular platform will attract the attention of the local security services. The question is who do you fear most, NSA or GHCQ, DGSE etc?
- anonyfuss 13y agoThe EU (and Germany in particular) have data protection laws ... so, yeah: I fear the NSA the most.
- claudius 13y agoThere are various cloud storage companies, TUB apparently just installed ownCloud[0], aforementioned GMX[1] has some storage thing with iPhone, Android and Windows clients and then there is always git-annex which you can run against basically anything. But you are right, there is not quite a EUDropbox, yes. There’s even a ‘Internet made in Germany’ initiative, promising, apart from others just that[2]. [0] http://www.tubit.tu-berlin.de/?131359 http://www.tubit.tu-berlin.de/?131359 (though given my experience with tubIT, I would be a little wary…) [1] http://www.gmx.net/produkte/mediacenter/ http://www.gmx.net/produkte/mediacenter/ [2] http://www.1und1.de/internetmadeingermany/ http://www.1und1.de/internetmadeingermany/ (Curious logo…)