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Thread ID: 124400	2012-04-24 20:14:00	Hear Ye - Google Drive Is Here.	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1271726	2012-04-26 23:30:00	Here is a major concern for anyone thinking of using googles service: From the TOS: "Your Content in our Services: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This licence continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing that you have added to Google Maps)." So, anything you upload is no longer private and essentially they then own your files to do as they please. Not something I will be subscribing to thanks. You *have* to grant Google a license to Host your works, they're not allowed to keep it on their servers otherwise. Same for allowing them license to reproduce it (Share it with others), public (Make available publicly when you request), modify (When you change it in one place they change it in all the others). Storm in a teacup much? If it said "You grant Google exclusive rights of ownership..." then be worried, but it doesn't. It says "The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating our services", you quoted it in fact!	Chilling_Silence (9)
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