I feel more and more that Stallman has a point. Everything that's in the cloud is there for the taking. Not to sound like a luddite but if he'd have cashed checks instead of paypal or hosted his own website this wouldn't be possible, right?
I remember Rob Gonggrijp's comment when his Twitter logs were subpoena'd: "This is why people run their own mail servers".
Every monetary trading system creates an audit trail. If the ruling is given to give access to an email account, the place of hosting is irrelevant. Unless you were to delete your mail server, which would probably only incriminate you further.
if you're ordered to cough up the records of your donations, it doesn't matter if they're stored with paypal, or in your filing cabinet. you've got to produce them. the only way non-cloud storage is relevant to this is that you could choose to destroy your own records. (before being sued, since you'd get in trouble for trashing them after the fact.)
I remember Rob Gonggrijp's comment when his Twitter logs were subpoena'd: "This is why people run their own mail servers".