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Eire is Part of the USA According to US Court

posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 04 2014, @12:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the Erin-go-Here dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Microsoft has been ordered to provide documents stored in an Ireland data centre to the US government. http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/08/microsoft-ordered-hand-over-dublin-data. Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?

 
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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Subsentient on Monday August 04 2014, @12:27PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Monday August 04 2014, @12:27PM (#77172) Homepage Journal
    "Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?"

    I hope so. Death to the cloud!
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @01:55PM (#77201)

    Of course it will not hinder US companies offering cloud services. It may, however, make non-US companies think twice about accepting that offer.

  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Monday August 04 2014, @06:44PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 04 2014, @06:44PM (#77303)

    SN is running in the "cloud" : )

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    • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday August 04 2014, @07:41PM

      by Geotti (1146) on Monday August 04 2014, @07:41PM (#77321) Journal

      SN is running in the "cloud"

      I meant to write that linode is a VPS provider, but looking at their site they're now "Linode Cloud"... What a shame. I'll consider moving my instances elsewhere, not.

  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday August 04 2014, @07:57PM

    by Tork (3914) on Monday August 04 2014, @07:57PM (#77326)
    "Death to the cloud!"

    Heh, yeah, that wouldn't have unintended consequences.
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