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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why on Earth would "the government decide to shut their service down"?
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Maybe he's thinking of the recent Megaupload case. Not the criminal investigation, but the one brought by Carpathia (Megaupload's server provider) to determine what they're supposed to do with the files; a number of users that were storing legitimate files via Megaupload were quite concerned when the DoJ began arguing that the files should be deleted and when the DoJ advanced a weird secondary liability argument that Carpathia could itself be liable for copyright infringement.
Given that case and the criminal case against Megaupload, I can kind of understand people being a little leery of cloud storage.
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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
Odd, I've always had 7gb storage on gmail (7700mb). Are you sure about that?
I checked, a long time ago, 1gb was offered, but 7gb is the standard now. Who in the heck even uses Yahoo email anymore? AOL anyone?
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My comment was about what Google first did to differentiate Gmail from Yahoo and others, not what they're doing now; I believe that when Gmail first came out (and was invite only), it only offered about 1GB of storage.