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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
What I am asking is - With a easy-to-use (and cheap) combination of cloud storage and strong encryption, it would make it virtually impossible for for copyright holders to be able to know even if their copyright is being violated, on a small scale.
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If this were the *first* cloud storage being offered, or if it grows quickly to dominate the industry, it could cause a shift in how filesharing is most commonly done, with the result of media companies getting even more hysterical about it. However, unless this cloud integrates smoothly with both Facebook and Twitter, it's going to be yet-another-obscure-techie-thing and most people who share files will continue doing what they do now: emailing each other attachments, uploading large things to MegaSuperWhatever, and handing USB drives around the office. Some of them will torrent--but the majority of people involved in small-scale sharing have no idea how to operate torrents.
If it's more complicated than Dropbox, it's not going to be a game-changer. If it's *as* complicated as Dropbox, it's not going to be a game-changer; people will wonder why they should bother signing up for yet another service and learn yet another interface.
The hacker types have always known
how to exchange data, in amounts large or small, and stay under the radar. Bringing that ability a bit closer to the surface won't change their activities nor filesharing levels. It's only when filesharing gets easy and popular among the non-techie public that real change happens, and that depends on the technical details and costs of the service.