It depends. Do you ever want to be able to rely on Amazon Web Services as a piece of your business infrastructure at any point in the rest of your life? You're putting that in jeopardy by using EC2 for illegal purposes; Amazon could well ban you from the service if a copyright holder outs you.
Amazon has no reason to be lenient here, especially given how ICE (DHS) has been handling copyright infringement...
That's a lot to risk. I'd rather upset my own ISP than upset Amazon -- Amazon is potentially more valuable to me. At least pick a cloud provider you don't intend to ever use for anything else.
It depends. Do you ever want to be able to rely on Amazon Web Services as a piece of your business infrastructure at any point in the rest of your life? You're putting that in jeopardy by using EC2 for illegal purposes; Amazon could well ban you from the service if a copyright holder outs you.
Presumably my business would use an account under the business name.
Amazon has no reason to be lenient here, especially given how ICE (DHS) has been handling copyright infringement...
That's a lot to risk. I'd rather upset my own ISP than upset Amazon -- Amazon is potentially more valuable to me. At least pick a cloud provider you don't intend to ever use for anything else.