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Re:Fuck the Cloud (2009) by tzudot on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:41PM (#10772237)
> To put it in other words you are advocating storing your money in a mattress because you don't "trust the banks"

In this case, money can't be compared to digital data. You can make multiple copies of digital data on our own but not of your money tucked away into a mattress, that would be illegal.

Re:Fuck the Cloud (2009) by nsfyn55 on Monday December 21, 2015 @01:13PM (#10772418)
It doesn't share the exact same properties, but you can make the comparison with any given copy. So yes the analogy holds.