January 18, 2006

25 GiB for free?

Christian Decker wrote this in the early evening:

Ever since Google’s GMail service revolutionized the Mail sector, online storage is becoming cheaper and cheaper. In a matter of sheer days we jumped from a few MiBs per Mail Account to GigaBytes, than a thousandfold what we had before!

Now Streamload MediaMax is offering 25 GigaBytes of online storage for free! With a monthly upload limit of 500 MiB and a FileSize Limit of 25 MiB per File.

It surely would be a nice idea to backup data using an online storage, but since it has no tool to do the tedious work for us right now, one would have to upload every single file by hand. It appears logical what the market for MediaMax is, and what audience they are targetting: File-Sharers.

To support this thesis it’s enough to take a look at the default categories with names such as Video Share, Photo Share, TV & Movie Locker, Music Locker. It seems obvious that their service may become a big platform for Copyright infringements and it would be interesting how they secured themselfs.

I personally don’t trust such services, as I confide some of my information to a stranger which may easily make this data accessible to others, and Filesharers, please don’t fall for it, it may be nice and fast at the beginning but they will log every transaction and therefore become a main target for Copyright Defenders… 

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Rant to Programmers

Christian Decker wrote this terribly early in the morning:

Today I stumbled across this post of the Jonathan from the Hak.5 Cast, and I must say he’s got a point!

During my work for the Functional Genomics Center Zurich I came across alot of these cases where we, the programmers, had to spend whole days reverse engineering and rewriting entire Parts, just because the company that gave us the bootstrap for the latest Project was unable to deliver a functional, or at least well documented code.

So just jump over to Jonathans Blog and read the post, it’s definitely worth itemoticon 

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