The argument here is that the Cablevision decision, which allowed cable companies to offer centrally hosted pseudo "digital video recorders" as a service, resulted in about a $1 bn boost to "cloud computing" startups. The analysis, though, is mostly based on cloud computing startup performance prior to 2008 vs. after 2008. The big recession and declining disk prices probably had a bigger effect.
All Cablevision does for "cloud computing" companies is to give them some legal protection against lawsuits against them when users store copyrighted material on a cloud service. Not much protection; it didn't save Aereo or Megaupload. Dropbox now checks for files which duplicate known copyrighted content. Cablevision is totally irrelevant if you're storing your own data.
All Cablevision does for "cloud computing" companies is to give them some legal protection against lawsuits against them when users store copyrighted material on a cloud service. Not much protection; it didn't save Aereo or Megaupload. Dropbox now checks for files which duplicate known copyrighted content. Cablevision is totally irrelevant if you're storing your own data.