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Cloud Storage of all forms is for the Sheeple

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on June 22, 2014 at 21:09:00

In Reply to: The concept itself is already old fashioned posted by jbcortes on June 22, 2014 at 03:11:06:

If you haven't yet been screwed by the cloud, then you will be. Music stored in your home on LPs, optical disks or hard drives are equally "materialized" and are in your physical possession so long as there is no DRM. If "your" music is in the cloud then you are at the mercy of some corporation(s) and you own nothing. If you doubt this, consider the case of Kindle users who purchased a book only to find a few days later that it had been erased from their hardware, because of a copyright "violation". This wouldn't have been terribly noteworthy, had the book not been Orwell's 1984.


There is a serious danger to the use of cloud storage to hold cultural and historical artifacts. The centralization of storage may lead to a 21st century equivalent to the burning of the library at Alexandria. IMO people who believe in cloud storage should wake up, before they become "sheeple", that is to say the 21st century equivalent of serfs.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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