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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Now, one of the most (in)famous names in the pirate world is going to set up a world wide Cloud storage with automatic, inherent, strong encryption on the upload. Only the uploader will have the key. (How strong the encryption will be remains to be seen.) However, the file can be downloaded by anybody who know it's there, and anybody with the decryption key can decrypt it. It would be perfect for friend-to-friend, small sale piracy.
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The problem with this is that it limits access a lot while limiting risk very little. As soon as someone shares a key with the wrong person, the host will be in hot water. The people the host is hiding from are better at breaking encryption than most. Internet traffic will make it easy to identify suspect hosts.
Much easier to share encrypted files peer-to-peer or unencrypted files person-to-person. I suspect that people are already doing this -- sharing music and movies via massive usb disks.
I can definately see people setting up private networks to keep white hats and black hats from snooping their data.