I am actually being paid to solve some of these problems right now. I am developing a new product to enhance cloud storage security, and remove barriers to its adoption.

One of the barriers is ease of use - it has to be dead simple and transparent, as if you were not using cloud anything. That means that when you are not online, but you want your files, they are their locally. Not a problem. And if you modify/add/delete said files while offline, they should sync up later, when you reconnect, without you doing anything at all.

All of this is currently available right now from dropbox and box.net, just to name two examples. Box.net doesn't offer the transparent access unless you pay. Dropbox offers it even in the free service. But you only get 2 GB free with DB.

Anyway, what I'm concerned with has more to do with security and publication, hackers and thieves. In essence, the stores should be publishing in the cloud - the vendor does the installing. Then, instead of you downloading an item, you would just buy the right to access it where it is already installed. The tricky thing is to merge the appearance of that one item (and all the others you have "bought") into your personal view of the cloud. This is not insurmountable, but it is unheard of as yet. Once merged into your view, local copies will appear in your computer(s) without any effort on your part.

This is why I'm not posting very much about Poser.

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