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Originally Posted by Malenfant
None of that is really my concern. All I know is that it is (for now at least) a perfectly legitimate remote backup method, it works well, and it's easy to use.
It's there and it's usable. Use it if you want to, don't us it if you don't want to.
(of course, none of this has anything whatsoever to do with the OP).
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At the moment, it's a legal gray zone. Most software licenses only permit one backup, and federal law only permits one backup in a non-usable storage*, so in the US, they're outside the expressly allowed by law modes.
Beware confusing "not expressly forbidden" with "perfectly legal" - the two are far from synonymous.
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*the intent was for a stored original and a working copy, with the stored original in a secure storage medium. Like a safe. The law on that hasn't been substantially altered to account for electronic media.