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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.




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