Cloud Computing Watch.com » Storage http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com Blogging the Cloud as it takes shape Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:41:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Pirate Bay goes legit by offering cloud services http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com/pirate-bay-cloud-services/ http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com/pirate-bay-cloud-services/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:00:51 +0000 David Chidester http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com/?p=83 Pirate Bay Cloud Computing

Pirate Bay Cloud Computing

Pirate Bay goes legit and now is working toward offering their file sharing bit-torrent services through the cloud.  By allocating your hardware storage in the cloud.

Eventually, Pirate Bay wants to use and resell this computing power in exchange for discounted subscription fees.  This will allow them to go after Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

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The Services are accessible through standard interfaces such as SOAP and REST. The service allows for on demand scaling for your data needs and can be accessed securely through HTTPS/SSL.

Unstructured data such as photos and documents can be stored and retrieved from anywhere/anytime.

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