Re:The Space Monkey Upgrade Scam
by alenlpeacock on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @01:16PM
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The very first sentence of the Kickstarter page says, "Space Monkey is the next generation cloud. For $10 per month, you get a full Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of storage you can use anywhere, any time."
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I know the Space Monkey guys from working together at Mozy and I can vouch that they wouldn't be deliberately misleading about this.
Yes but that doesn't clear up the ownership vs lease issue.
Your argument is that the lease is implied, @emil10001's is that ownership is implied - I can read the page both ways.
The whole problem seems to stem from the lack of an explicit statement on this - perhaps it should have been in the FAQs?
Having a $/month service on top of hardware does not change the nature of ownership. Mixing hardware and network seems to be a constant with SpaceMonkey's communication strategy. I'm sure that a law student could show how none of the KS campaign qualifies as a rental/lease offer.