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Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot?
An anonymous reader writes "Between watermarked MP3 files and matching identical files, iCloud Music Match might wind up being a giant trap for finding owners of illegally copied files should the RIAA subpoena the evidence."
5) Even if you owned a file that was without a shadow of a doubt pirated, that doesn't matter if they can't prove you SHARED it. If you just own it all you MIGHT be liable for the 0.99 the song could be purchased for, not the 200x damages they normally seek in lawsuits. There is no way to prove, from a file, that YOU have shared it as opposed to someone else.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Google good. Apple bad.
Please report to the nearest /. reeducation center.
The problem is much worse with Amazon, Google, DropBox, etc. With those services you're uploading the file itself to their servers. The RIAA could stomp in with a fancypants court order and demand to see your music collection.
With iCloud you're not uploading the file; you're getting the "right" to play a different copy of the file that already exists on Apple's servers. Even if the RIAA came in, it's not clear there's much they could do.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
This is not marketed towards you, if you're willing to set up, configure, and run your own music server. This is marked towards the people with enormous music collections at home, who want to be able to listen to any song in their library on their mobile device at any time, without having to worry about whether their data is synced.
Your "wisdom" is no deeper than someone who says, "Why would I go out to a restaurant, when I could cook a gourmet meal myself?" or "Why would I take my car into the shop, when I'm perfectly capable of diagnosing and repairing any problems that it might be experiencing?" Cloud storage is offering a valuable service to those without the expertise or patience to do it themselves.
Let me put it this way to you - Adam and Eve did not ensure that humanity was banished from the Garden of Eden for eternity by taking a bite from the forbidden Google.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Google good. Apple bad.
Please report to the nearest /. reeducation center.
You think you're being sarcastic, but your comment is 100% accurate. Apple is the single most evil corporation I'm aware of, and Google is the single most ethical corporation I'm aware of.
You need to meet more corporations.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!