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I'd go for this with one modification

I'd like this if they made everyone's files accessible to everyone else (after all, if you're making them accessible to Google why not). 

Having a 100GB web-space of uploaded photos and shareable files would be nice. 

In fact they'd become the ISP of choice and then the whole WWW would end up inside Google...

posted by : Stephen Brooks, 29 November 2007 Complain about this comment
re: W.-

W.-,... if you knew anything of law... or current technology.. all of what you just said is null and void. You buy space, its yours to keep. IPA (internet privacy act) would cover whatever is in there unless there is a disclaimer on their site saying they have access to it. They'll probably have bandwidth allotments so you can't just use it as a server... etc. I'm sure they've been through all of this


posted by : jason, 29 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Think harder

Are the good people at google aware of what a general internet user's uploadspeed is? (and REAL downloadspeed)
And how much data people collect on their TB drives?
And how it's basically illegal to store other people's copyrighted data on a 3rd party's server?
And how even if people had the patience to upload and download all their rubbish and all did that it would clog internet to a standstill?
And that in this century trusting others with your data is as reliable and smart as using a hairdryer in the bathtub?

posted by : W.-, 27 November 2007 Complain about this comment
spend a $100

and get a 500GB hard drive for all your data and KEEP your privacy!

And while 500GB might not be enough for some people's media collection do you really want the RIAA coming after you for 'posting' your music on the web? Sure it's just a storage vault but the media maffia never misses and opportunity to try to make a buck...just ask that dead 'music pirate' they tried to sue!


posted by : Mason, 27 November 2007 Complain about this comment
so what

who gives a flying pig, let em have it.

posted by : sowhat, 27 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Over my dead body

Nobody gets my data. Not Google, not the government, nobody.

Not if I can help it anyway.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 27 November 2007 Complain about this comment

Google makes bid to hold all your data

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