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I never thought cloud storage providers would actually do this - they are at least supposed to pretend they are respecting your privacy. Yet even Apple says this:

> Apple reserves the right at all times to determine whether Content is appropriate and in compliance with this Agreement, and may pre-screen, move, refuse, modify and/or remove Content at any time [1]

I'm definitely in the market for a good e2e encrypted cloud storage solution.

[1] https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/t...

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  I never thought cloud storage providers would
  actually do this

A lot of cloud storage providers actually attempt to fulfil multiple roles: Backup, sharing files between your computers/tablets/phones, and... letting people share files by giving out download links.

Perfectly reasonable feature - many people want to share files too big to e-mail.

But adding that feature changes the nature of the storage company's business, from being like a warehouse to being like a publisher. If I have a blog and I embed a video, is there any difference between a Google Drive hosted video and an unlisted Youtube-hosted video?

Moderation does not have an impact on the service's legal liabilities, at least not as far as criminal law is concerned. Search Decency Act in this thread for the details.

It's slightly ambiguous currently with regards to copyright law because of a recent decision, but the DMCA safe harbor provisions obviously had the same intent: it'd be counter-intuitive to make providers suffer for trying to do the right thing.

I'm not saying anything about legal liability.

Youtube might have decided not to host porn as a pure business decision - e.g. so workplace and school content filters won't block youtube.com as pornographic. Khan Academy and suchlike couldn't host with youtube if it meant you couldn't access their videos from schools!

Once Google has made the business decision that they don't share pornographic videos on youtube.com, it seems reasonable they wouldn't allow them to be shared via drive.google.com either.

> I'm definitely in the market for a good e2e encrypted cloud storage solution.

mega.co.nz may be kind of what you're looking for

Thanks for the link. It looks pretty good - open source clients, all major platforms, affordable.

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