If the end of Safe Harbor spells disaster for all those centralized cloud services, that might actually turn out to be a good thing for the Internet in the long term.

We often think of decentralized peer-to-peer networks as a rebellious technology, something we need to develop in order to evade oppressive laws in an increasingly dystopian world. But what if decentralization becomes the only legal way to create and maintain a global social network? That would be ironic but also deeply satisfying.

My only worry is that this ruling might not spell enough of a disaster to shake up the VCs' faith in the centralized cloud.