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In Reply to: RE: Having read some of the other responses.... posted by AbeCollins on April 25, 2012 at 09:43:47
Keep in mind that all of your private data will be in the Cloud and can be read by the service. In addition, under a new "cyber security law" any of this data will be accessible by the NSA without a warrant. So much for the 4th Amendment.
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Keep in mind that all of your private data will be in the Cloud and can be read by the service. In addition, under a new "cyber security law" any of this data will be accessible by the NSA without a warrant. So much for the 4th Amendment.
I'm not worried. NSA does not specifically look at my information and they have no need to want my information, unless I give them a reason to. The banks and credit card companies already have my "private" information as do many other organizations including online commerce sites where I buy and sell things.
I'm not too concerned with the 'evil cloud'.
You're right that most of us have a lot of financial info floating around on the internet - credit cards, social security numbers, health info, and the like, but off-site storage of music does introduce a new element.
"Copyright trolling" is an increasingly common situation where law firms are actively searching the internet for alleged violations of copyrighted info.
I have a friend who recently received a 35 page subpoena, via his ISP, for an alleged violation 8 months ago of downloading a movie he'd never even heard of. (I know this fellow well enough to be certain the allegation is BS on several levels.) He's now going to have to hire an attorney to sort things out.
ISPs automatically fork over the requested customer data when they receive these subpoenas, so its a natural next step for the trolls to start requesting info about large batches of copyrighted material being stored by a customer in a cloud setting. The burden of proof would fall on the customer to prove their copyright innocence versus the troll having to prove the opposite.
In short, for a lot of us, it is going to be quite a while before the level of trust is sufficient to store one's music collection in cyberspace. It's just too cheap, fast, easy and risk-free to keep a couple of spares on external USB drives versus the known and potential hassles of the cloud.
to dump every physical media copy of everything they own as fast as they can anyway. What is it, are they living in a 10 x 10 metro apartment and simply don't have any space at all? How much room can the average collection of media take up; a bookcase, a cabinet, some storage boxes???
In the example I noted, the concern has little to do with losing your physical copy of the data, but rather the cost of litigation if you're sued for copyright infringement as a result of your cloud storage.
If you do a Google search on "copyright troll", you'll find this is a very active area. While to date, this has been primarily focused on the peer-to-peer file sharing aspect, there is little doubt that the plaintiff attorneys are always on the lookout for ways to expand the field.
What happens when they discover your thousands of CDs ripped to the cloud server and demand that you prove each and every one was legitimately acquired? One can spend a lot of time and money on legal defense even when you've done nothing wrong.
I took it that many who are so anxious to store their media in the Cloud were wishing to store all their collection electronically so they could then dump their physical media.
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