Good morning! I just want to underline that it wasn't my intention to cause *worry*, but to follow on the heels of what perks said, and really try to provide some food for thought about the whole "cloud" thing. Yes, I do think that safety is something to think about. Then again, I live in a place where self-righteous (some might even say arrogant) pedestrians walk out into traffic hundreds of times a day, without even taking the extra second to look both ways before crossing; safe in the self-presumed knowledge that motor vehicle drivers will absolutely have to always do the right thing and allow them to cross, because *The Law* demands it. Sure, if the driver can brake in time. Or, if the brakes are in good working order, for that matter. Or if the driver isn't busy looking at their phone, just like the pedestrian is. See, so many thinks to take into consideration. And let's just say the pedestrian gets hit, regardless of who is really at fault - is a settlement going to really make the pedestrian feel better, or give them back their quality of life? Okay, I'm rambling on a tangent, but that particular tangent is something I've been dealing with for more than twenty years now, except in my case the driver really was at fault, and the settlement didn't even begin to cover all the problems that still continue to come up.
But let's say we go back to the story of the files in the cloud. Maybe it's safe, maybe not. Let's forget about that question for a moment and think about other possibilities. What if one day a new law is passed and the hosting provider is required to vet the kind of things their customers are storing on their cloud servers. Kind of like mandatory cookies for clouds. Or let's say the Terms Of Service change in a way that users may not agree with (does anyone really even read all that stuff?). Or the fees keeping going up. None of those things are too far-fetched, really.
Look, I'm as much of a techhie nerd as anyone else in this here tribe, and that having been said, the concept of cloud storage is really kind of a remarkable thing. Like so many other components of web and audio science we all deal with in this wacky taping universe of ours. But just like everything else in this realm, the game is constantly changing, and generally, at a pace many of us can barely keep up with, which is one reason we are all still asking questions that quite possibly could have been answered by the creators of these gadgets before they thrust them in front of us to make us all giddy and excited about their uncharted potential. Maybe those guys don't even have the answers themselves. Maybe they expect us to be the ongoing beta testers for their crazy new schemes and devices. If that's the case, I'm just saying that we really do need to grab the reins and slow it down just a second so we have a reasonable opportunity to think everything through, before we end up doing something we might later regret.
Done rambling for the moment. I guess that's what happens when I just start typing first thing in the morning when I haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet.
Peace out, y'all.
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How safe is it to store stealth recordings on Google Drive, Backblaze or whatever? How much do they care about their users integrity? Is it possible for artists and labels to use some algorithm to find illegally recorded music or videos? Didn't Megaupload and other cloud services have a lot of problems in the past with users sharing illegal things in their clouds? Is it safer nowadays?
I'm considering this route as well but I'm a bit afraid it will bite me in the end.