Cloud Storage TOS Comparison

Also I wish they had done comparisons for more of the services like sugar sync. Every service has some downfall. In the end I think most people just get whatever their friends tell them to get. Drop box seems to have the most publicity but I found it to be the worst of all the services I tried.
 
rudy said:
Also I wish they had done comparisons for more of the services like sugar sync. Every service has some downfall. In the end I think most people just get whatever their friends tell them to get. Drop box seems to have the most publicity but I found it to be the worst of all the services I tried.
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Would be nice if you'd actually bother to say why.

Dropbox has been the best of them all for me. Why? Well, it's allows me to directly hotlink public files, for starters. Can't even do this with Box.net.
 
[+Duracell-];1038651157 said:
SkyDrive lets you do the same cross-application data sharing.
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True. But like I said, that's the TOS for all of Google's services. It's not a surprise move, OMG DRIVE TOS IS CRAZY, type of thing. It's literally the exact same TOS that's been in place since March 1.
 
You could always host it yourself with open source software..

I'll do this when it get a bit more stable, at least then I am only limited by my bandwidth and HDD space..

Try Sparkleshare for one, this is the one that I am keeping my eye on but would love to hear of others if they exist..
 
"Cloud" storage for anything important enough to be considered private is an idiotic move to begin with. Even with me being the insignificant person I am, I would never store anything private on some company's server even if they had an impeccable reputation for respecting their customers.

As far as the whole "encrypt your data first" thing goes, do you think Google can't decrypt your data if they really wanted to? Those ToS give them the right. I'm sure they wouldn't waste their time on the average Joe that stores things like pictures of their ugly-ass chihuahua, but the point is that they can if they want to.

The next thing you know some company (whose moronic enough to do such a thing with their data) is going to sue Google some day for ripping off their IP and Google is going to say "But you had your plans/designs stored on our servers so it's ours." and it'll be thrown out of court. Then Google is going to have a monopoly on something like the cure for cancer or transporter technology. lol

Didn't Hotmail have a similar policy that stated that anything emailed through them, belongs to them and they were forced to change the policy by the shitstorm that followed? That was some years ago so I don't remember the details.

I guess what it comes down to is, if it's important enough, don't put it on the net at all.

I probably don't know what I'm talking about because I'm paranoid about these things (thanks to Google), but I despise Google even more than Sony so I thought I'd bitch a little.
 
Dwango said:
*snore*

Wake me when they actually do something with someone else's data and we'll talk. Until then: On with the fear-mongering!
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So you think having access and the rights to take ideas/alter/translate/modify etc etc etc parts of a gigantic tank of ideas and files is fine?

Let me guess, you are one of the "if you don't do anything bad then why do you care" guys?

They might take your paper and translate it in mandarin and then go publish it, how the fck will you ever know?

Except when the mandarin speaking lawyers come knocking on your door asking who gave you the permission to publish their already published work.
 
The Verge has a *MUCH* better comparison (they didn't just quote mine to get those juicy, out of context lines)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud

The short version is that Google's is perhaps a little broad due to the single privacy policy (not by much, though), but it's strictly defined, Microsoft's is basically the same as Google's, and Dropbox's is the worst. Dropbox's is the worst because it uses vague language, not strict language like Google's and Microsoft's. Dropbox's lets them do almost anything with your data.

Apple's, to no one's surprise, is a disaster. Stay far, far away from iCloud.
 
Google is just doing standard CYA because nothing can prepare us for the future. It comes down to who you trust more as a consumer.
 
I just read another article on another site that actually read all the TOS's and they basically said, they all say the same thing. All of them. And that this singling out Google thing is really just more fear mongering, because they all say the same thing!
 
defunctdoormat said:
I just read another article on another site that actually read all the TOS's and they basically said, they all say the same thing. All of them. And that this singling out Google thing is really just more fear mongering, because they all say the same thing!
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You could actually read them yourself and realize they dont actually say the same thing. I know dropbox dont lay claim to everything you upload like google does.
 
Disposed said:
You could actually read them yourself and realize they dont actually say the same thing. I know dropbox dont lay claim to everything you upload like google does.
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You should take your own advice and read them - because 1, Google doesn't claim everything you upload - the exact opposite is true. The explicitly state you retain all ownership of what you uplaod. And 2, Dropbox has a *more* permissive license than Google's. Dropbox can use your data for anything it wants, Google can't.
 
kllrnohj said:
You should take your own advice and read them - because 1, Google doesn't claim everything you upload - the exact opposite is true. The explicitly state you retain all ownership of what you uplaod. And 2, Dropbox has a *more* permissive license than Google's. Dropbox can use your data for anything it wants, Google can't.
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Since you obviously cant be bothered to read.

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
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From the first post of this thread quoted directly from the TOS. In laymans terms, "you upload shit with our service we own it and can do whatever the fuck we want with it".
 
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