[tisme]

Privacy protection of the citizens and intellectual property protection have preciously little to do with each other. Storing your data in the cloud should come with automatic extension of the rights that you'd normally have to data stored on your own devices. Anything less will be a disaster, not just for the citizens but also for all those that earn a living building cloud services. A ruling like this has enormous implications that extend far beyond the piracy debate.

The RIAA doesn't have any bits worth protecting in the same way that people's private information warrants protection.

So artist 'x' is a citizen and their privacy (and hence their private data) warrants protection just as much as any other citizens privacy. Whether or not the data they produce and release into mainstream culture (which is in the end an affair between citizens) warrants economic protection is an entirely different matter.

[dllthomas]

> The RIAA doesn't have any bits worth protecting in the same way that people's private information warrants protection.

It might well, but they're in HR.