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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
No mention was made of the fact things like this will affect all sites that allow unmoderated user content, but if it gets people curious enough to go and have a look on the internet for further information they will find out that way. For now, anyway.
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Y'know, this could result in Dropbox closing, as well as Rapidshare and quite a few other services with legitimate, legal uses. Hell, case law from this could close the door on cloud computing.
Although I've always been a little worried about the whole "your data is on the cloud" instead of "No, its in this USB stick where I can keep an eye on it." There's nothing to stop a cloud provider from saying "Its your data until we can make a profit on it, then it becomes *our* data," or prohibiting users from migrating cloud-stored data from one provider to another if they get a better deal. So ultimately, a loss of cloud computing would IMO not be a meaningful loss.