One of my relatives has his songs posted on an audio cloud website with the tracks looking just like Forge. You can play with the mouse or spacebar. Very nice but not my bag.
JJK
However, they, and any other governmental or law enforcement entity will have, basically, unfettered, warrantless, access to your content.
Let's say, for example, that I was hired to do a video for a demolition company's use of explosives and I cut a montage of detonations to a public domain version of "Blue Danube."
While completely legal and only of interest to my client to sell his licensed services, I would feel somewhat concerned if this were living on Adobe's or Apple's or Microsoft's servers. Do you really believe that DHS, DIA, FBI, NSA, etc., would not take an interest and add me to some list or another?
I firmly believe that there are motives other than economic ones underlying the push to "cloud men's minds."
Abobe Premiere is really painful to use compared to Vegas. I use Pluraleyes for sync a lot, on Vegas it's one button click, in Adobe Premiere it's huge long procedure, might as well do it by hand. No scripting engine in Premiere I guess.
I believe the "Cloud" thing is part of the "MIT" ultimate syndrome pushed hard by some people trying to get rich quick. Saw it on TV news and the main dude says everybody will be using Cloud in thefuture.
JJK