Re: Will on-line backup be evil, too?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood () cable comcast com>
Date: March 27, 2009 3:26:34 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, <wb8foz () panix com 
>
Subject: Re: [IP] Will on-line backup be evil, too?

> It hammers on your upstream connection, at least during the initial
> seeding stage. That got me wondering. Will Comcast and friends label
> such as dangerous;

But why should we?  This is backing up your computer into the network  
after
all.  I sure want to keep my family digital photos and movies and key
documents secure off-site; I view these kinds of services as kind of  
like
virtual safe deposit boxes in that respect.

However, I am sure that like many people, I have security and privacy
concerns about my documents in the cloud, whether that is via
'AcmeCloudDocs' or 'AcmeCloudBackup' or whatever, and it seems like
companies are experimenting to find good solutions.  In my personal  
opinion
at least, seems like we're seeing healthy innovation and  
experimentation in
the marketplace...

> and start deploying measures to sabotage it and its
> competitors as they did with Peer-to-Peer?

Well, we've tried hard to right that mistake.  ;-)

> I can hear the arguments now. "We never designed our system for this
> kind
> of abuse." [Read "Someone else is making money we want."]. And maybe
> "It's enabling terrorists.." etc. etc. But what it really amounts to  
> is:
> may we use our upstream bandwidth or not?

With the speeds that DOCSIS 3.0 makes possible, I am sure we'll start  
to see
a range of new applications take off.  Part of our job will be to  
figure out
how to make the use and experience of those new applications better on  
our
network...

Regards
Jason





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