pippin wrote: > It's a funny discussion with different points of views on both sides of > the Atlantic, btw. > Whenever I talk to people in Europe they don't believe in cloud services > and that people will always prefer their own stuff.
That could be because if you are in the US, you are already subject to US laws (including your butt being owned by the media industry, law enforcement and intelligence services), and it makes little difference if your stuff is in the cloud or at home. But if you live in Europe, you give away your stuff to another legislation, beyond your control, and with much weaker privacy and consumer laws if you put it "in the cloud". Anyone remember the crazy thing when the PGP encryption source code was classified as controlled munitions in the US? The MIT bookstore could print the code on a T-shirt, but taking that T-shirt abroad would have been "exporting controlled munitions". And of course the MIT bookstore couldn't put a picture of the T-shirt in their online catalogue - anyone loading that page would have exported controlled munitions... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
