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Originally Posted by DNSB
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In contrast, what protection does an ebook stored in Amazon's cloud drive have? Do you know where it is stored? Who has access to that data? How is it protected from unauthorized access? Plus a miserly 5GB of storage?
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You can store as much as you want at Amazon (or others). It is just not for
miserly users, who want it for
free 
.
When the 'cloud' first popped on scene, I wondered: "Why is it NOT a copyright violation to store Books, Music or Videos that you do not own the copyright, out there, where you also do not have 100% CONTROL of the access".
That NAS sitting on
my desk, is in
my house, on
my private (or isolated) network and is more secure than when stored at
some server farm, someplace, run (operator) by
who knows, on a
shared network. and might not be backed up or the RAID well maintained (been in many a server farm with RAID fault LEDs showing and the tech is waiting for a work ticket
from above)
BTW a private (purpose built) NAS also has the ability to switch to lower power mode when idle, because, with limited users, it
will have idle
periods.