In Reply to: Agreed, I always keep a hard copy backup. Just what the hell is it with people who are running pell-mell posted by cfb on April 26, 2012 at 05:51:11:
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.
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Follow Ups
- hard copy backups not the issue - mls-stl 06:55:41 04/26/12 (1)
- Agreed, agreed, that is a serious risk one should consider. - cfb 08:03:37 04/26/12 (0)