Yet another danger of cloud computing...

From an article in Ars Technica, "For example, if the government accidentally seized iCloud servers containing the only copy of priceless family photos, you'd need to be prepared to explain why there are pirated MP3s in your iTunes folder."

 The user who was an example a paid customer of Megaupload wants his business files back.  The DOJ looked at the contents, and found "numerous videos produced by Mr. Goodwin have as their soundtracks recordings of popular copyrighted music." and "music files with MD5 values that matched the hash values of pirated versions of popular music"

IANL, but it looks to me like a storage facility that was seized by the government, and its users want their spaces back.  If the facility was seized for a pattern of housing stolen property, and that's what the customers have in their spaces...  Well?  How about customers that have non-stolen property commingled with thing that are provably a problem?

Well, I guess the standard recommendations for cloud computing still stand, maybe now more than ever.

Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in the mid atlantic states in the wake of the hurricane  :-(