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Cloud computers are computers you can only use with someone else's permission

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@brian_carnell wrote:

a cloud computer is a computer you're only allowed to use if the phone
company and a DRM-peddling giant like Adobe gives you permission, and
they can withdraw that permission at any time.

Which is true as far as it goes, but what's the alternative?

As I look at the front page of BB, for example, there are numerous video links to a cloud service provider notorious for taking down said videos for bizarre reasons and with little recourse.

And yet I (and you) still keep using and linking to videos hosted by this cloud service provider because of it's ease-of-use and popularity.

I guess I could go create a MediaGoblin server and opt-out, but I doubt I could do it as efficiently or with the same level of exposure as I can on the popular cloud-based video service.

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