The sad part about a lot of this is that you don't own any of your software to begin with (Unless you wrote it). Almost all software rights are retained by the creator. Including the right to make you delete it from your system is you are found in violation of the EULA associated with it. Cloud storage violates almost every EULA out there.

That in itself is the biggest drawback of cloud storage.

All a software creator would have to do is notify the cloud storage service that you forfited your rights to the program based on the EULA, and the next time you connect you loose it.

Cloud storage for information that is not bound by a EULA is fine, but as soon as a EULA is involved, the lawyers will step in.

I personally would not use a cloud storage service simply because I have my own servers that already do the same thing they do on my home network. My servers also keep far more information than most cloud systems would.

If one of my systems dies, I can do a complete system restore to within a day of the failure, and certain directories are mirrored on every write event. If I add something to a Runtime, it appears on multiple machines here etc.

I don't know if the clouds can do complete system backups, but I doubt that they are anywhere near as capable as my own personal setup

Security is a huge problem with any storage system. If someone gets in, they will get synced. Meaning that they get your info, and you get theirs next time you connect. That can be a really bad thing if if you have a lot of systems linked to the cloud, and they inserted something mailcious into you data.

Sooner or later someone will come up with a security system that will stop most of the problem.

From personal experience, I will say later, much later.

All you have to do is look at the news, and you will quickly see that the best security systems are cracked all the time.

If you can write it, someone can crack it. The cracking part is only a matter of time.

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