In this article from IBT UK David Vorick, Cofounder of Sia decentralized cloud storage platform, is interviewed and states how much responsibility comes from owning so much data like Amazon does: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sia-takes-cloud-giants-blockchain-based-decentralised-storage-1625126
Sia proposes as a solution to such a centralization of data ownership, to prevent anyone to take down your data if he just wants to.
"So we want to provide infrastructure that nobody, including ourselves, has the control over", said Vorick, "something with no failure points, where there is no place of leverage and no company, country, jurisdiction, person who can decide that they don't like you or they have ulterior motives."
My main question is... How will Sia behave with copyright protected material, or illegal stuff?
A very tough problem. They could implemet a voting system to flag illegal content. But since most of the data is not public it probably wouldn't be sufficient.
Yea, there should be a sort of consensus system, but I think that the flagging system may lead to its abuse, as happens in Youtube.
I don't know how you would do that, given all of the data is encrypted and only the owner of the data can know the contents.
Sia or the hosts would not be able to see the contents of data stored, I believe they are end to end encrypted. I would assume it is covered under terms of service.
For sure it is, but how to ensure that ToS won't be violated? Furthermore, the concept to take down a content seems to go against Sia principles...
Sia monitoring would probably go against decentralization concept. However, host could charge higher bandwith fee to discourage that kind of behavior, assuming copyrighted material used for redistribution. I believe there two different fees: one for disk space another for bandwith.
I'm not sure but Ive brought a shit load of sai coin last week
LOL i did too, had the luck to buy them at .005, I'm happy on their performance in the last 2 weeks. A little correction seems to be occurring, but I'm confident in the developers and the team, and I'm sure in a couple of years we won't regret the buy at all!
That's right, 5 years time , Cha ching
yea, but in the mean time good coin for trading
I think some partnership among steem and sia would be a winner for both.
Good!