I was wondering … when I upload a file to, say, Dropbox, does anybody personally check it to see what it is?
Say I upload a copy of my Blu-ray movie to cloud storage … will anyone check, and could they possibly tell law enforcement that I uploaded a digital copy online?
Or is it all 100% automated, and nobody actually looks at anything, leaving the process entirely to software and hardware with no human intervention?
Some guy told me that he stores tons of illegal movies, games, etc. online in cloud storage encrypted and nobody can find out what he has there since he encrypted it offline and then uploaded the encrypted block of data online.
If I were to upload copies of my movies (so that in case I lose the actual disks and not wanting to fill my hard disk up with so many gigabytes of data) online, should I be concerned with anyone checking the files one-by-one? Or am I thinking in the stone ages here?
Because IF nobody did check personally what’s hosted on your cloud storage/etc., like Box.com where they don’t even know where your files are hosted and nobody watches them/checks it, isn’t this illegal haven? If nobody checks it,
you could have anything there as long as nothing calls for analyzing, correct?
Box.com claims that they host your data cross virtual servers, other companies’ servers, etc. In that event your data is flowing around all over the place and nobody is actually “watching” or “checking” to see what you uploaded, meaning I could post, say, a video of someone I murdered (kidding) online and nobody without any lead would know this because the file would not be checked on their side.
PS: I don’t mean “check” as in determine file format, etc. I mean check as in actually seeing what a file is, contains, such as viewing a photo, video, sound, text file, etc.