>>Haven't seen you posting here for a while. Nice to see you back (and with a vengeance :-})
>>Snip : "Get the data and the apps that businesses need or users think they need, and charge for it"
>>Isn't that what we also do ? :-}
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>Not quite sure it applies to what I do. Last seven jobs I held, the philosophy was "ours the code, yours the data, everyone take care of their stuff".
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>>Again for (b)(i) it could be argued that data storage is actually safer on the cloud.
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>It could, but success of the argument is uncertain. It's like with independent press - it may be called so because it's independent from a government, but it still isn't independent on the whims of advertisers, owners and their merry friends. So cloud may be safer against mechanical failure, physical theft of hardware and a few such event, but probably less safer from the whims of the holder. All your data are belong to us, eh?

and while I certainly believe most of megaupload stuff was copyrighted to other persons than those uploading it,
there were some who used the service to store their very own stuff. They cannot access it and the legality
of the bringing them down via US leaning on New Zealnd and confiscating servers whereever they succeeded was
questionable as well IMO. Much easier to hide a 2.5 USB disk...