Eli talked about new kind of service that manages all the cloud storages in one place – Otixo, and how the Terms of Service virtually grants all rights to the user content to Otixo.
I never read ToS, but I’ve decided to try this once. After some digging I’ve found this:
Copyright in Your Content. Otixo does not claim ownership rights in any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials or content you make available or use in connection with the Site and the Service or use in connection with your account (“Content”). By submitting your Content and accepting the consideration set forth in these Terms, as consideration for our permitting you to use the Site and the Service, you unconditionally grant to Otixo a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable right and license, with the right to sublicense through multiple levels of sublicensees, under all of your intellectual property rights in the Content, to (a) reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally transmit, and otherwise use the Content in any medium or format, whether now known or hereafter discovered and (b) exercise any and all other present or future rights in the Content. You remain the owner of all Content that you submit to the Service and as a condition to your use of the Site and the Service, you represent and warrant to Otixo that you are the owner of the copyright to the Content you submit to the Service or that you have written permission from the copyright owner to submit such Content. In addition, you warrant that all moral rights in any Content have been waived. You agree to indemnify and hold Otixo harmless for any violation of this provision.
So, now I know why I never read ToS. I have no idea what it means. I don’t understand the above quote. Really, I don’t. What confuses me is that it says that Otixo doesn’t claim ownership on the content, but they can use it forever 
Anyhow, it makes you think…
This service is not alone out there with these features. There are at least 2 others.
Joukuu – is a free windows program that lets you manage some cloud accounts. The service is paid if you want to add more than one account of the same kind. The support of cloud services is limited but should be expanded soon.
Primadesk – Web services with huge number of clouds supported. Free account gives 1Gb of cloud space and connection to 5 other cloud services. Paid customers get more…
No, I didn’t read ToS for any of them. I prefer to take care of my clouds by myself and I prefer to encrypt them by myself (when needed).
My advice to you – don’t get lost in the clouds
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