[dejan]

I agree. There is also a bigger issue that concerns me. Clouding is not any different than having a single server from the user perspective. The data still is centralized, as one central entity owns your data, even though they organized the back-end as a cloud.

Regarding the privacy issues- as long as one such entity hold/maintains your data, they dictate you what you can and can't do, what you can say or not, share or see, thus what is legal or illegal.

China and Iran - cut services, while the US (and Europe in somewhat) try to protect conservative methods so that their backers (read companies) can earn more money. Copyrights are coming to their dead end, while new business models are emerging. What you do with your data is your own business, and laws need to be rethought as gravity laws do not apply to electrical current - the forces that pull are different.

We need democratization, decentralization and de-copyright of the Internet, where we own a slice of the global cloud and data can be shared over it no matter what its contents are.

I'll soon post an open source project I am working on to tackle these issues. Hope to hear more comments.