{"id":4048,"date":"2016-12-29T20:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2017-01-03T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:22:12","slug":"clouds-are-not-tangible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/clouds-are-not-tangible\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds are not Tangible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Clouds are not Tangible<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>If you can&#8217;t hold something in your hand, it doesn&#8217;t exist<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At first, this statement might seem to deny digital media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In reality, you can store anything digital on physical media, and &#8220;hold it in your hand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important?<\/p>\n<p>Today, digital rights and cloud-delivered services often determine what you &#8220;own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What if the provider goes out of business?\u00a0 You simply lose all of your rights (and thus all of your purchases).<\/p>\n<p>What if your account gets corrupted?\u00a0 You lose everything associated with your account.<\/p>\n<p>What if your local content fails to sync with the cloud?\u00a0 You lose your local content.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what does work:<\/p>\n<p>BACK UP YOUR DATA TO PHYSICAL MEDIA.<\/p>\n<h3>Thus, if you can&#8217;t hold the physical media in your hand, then your cloud-based digital rights don&#8217;t exist.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong>DRM Corollary:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have a backup that&#8217;s encrypted using Digital Rights Management (DRM), then you don&#8217;t really have a backup.<\/p>\n<p>Any physical backup should either NOT be encrypted, or should have a permanent decryption key that never expires, and can be used even if the DRM server is offline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unless you can DECRYPT your backups, they are useless.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds are not Tangible &nbsp; If you can&#8217;t hold something in your hand, it doesn&#8217;t exist &nbsp; At first, this statement might seem to deny digital media&#8230; In reality, you can store anything digital on physical media, and &#8220;hold it in your hand&#8221;. Why is this important? Today, digital rights and cloud-delivered services often determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-analyses-and-responses","category-justinisms","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}