Bill, I'm thinking more along the lines of, it's on your computer (so long as the computer is working) vs it's never on your PC if there's a problem with internet, the site is down, the servers are buggy, as well as bandwidth issues (not so much a problem in the US but a problem in other countries) which include having to download (have streamed) several large files every time you want to do a render, etc. Then you've got to consider as cloud computing becomes more popular, you've got to realize that malware targeted at the weakest link (end user) will start showing up.

Plus I'm thinking the federal government is going to probably get involved sooner or later and just make everything in the cloud a legal nightmare.  Take the stop online piracy act.  A pirate stores something pirated in your provider's cloud then that entire cloud goes bye-bye.  Or if he has a pirated copy of V4, then no one can use V4 until the whole piracy mess is cleaned up.

Finally, we all know that 90% cloud storage will eventually be used to hide people's porn collection.  :blink:

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