Gobbler Problem: Hack ?

Gobbler is a cloud collaboration site specifically for music. You can share songs or whole sessions between people. It launched about 3-5 years ago and they have a free and paid service.

Slate uses it for delivery of his software subscription service.

Avid sued Gobbler a few years ago for allegedly stealing staff and or expertise. I need heard the outcome of that.

Gobbler had been working great for me until just before last summer.

Gobbler is now fully integrated with Logic and you can upload, backup and download from with in Logic.

Ahh, so this is gonna be a huge PITA for a lot of people. Bummer. I figured it was just Slates panties that were gonna be in a bunch.

you can exchange PT sessions in minutes, and they're ready to go, no futzing around. Dropbox, not so much IME, always some sort of complication, I'm hoping the Avid cloud thing works out well, it could be their big comeback? I know some logic guys talking about doing the monthly thing to try out PT, once they do, they're gonna be hooked is my guess.

I checked out Gobbler when it was built into Sonar.
Seemingly they bought themselves in at the DAW companies for marketing reasons...
It did not work out for me at all. So i dropped this. Upload speed was much worse than Dropbox for me, maybe i am just unfortunate with my provider or the backbone from here or whatever.
As always. "The Cloud" is just internet data servers like there were many before. They are as secure or insecure as they always have been. If there are big server networks, huge amounts of data, many user accounts, sooner or later someone could find a way to shut it down or even take over due to using an exploit a bit faster than the security software/OS update. The script kiddies of yesteryear are the hackers of today.
They can shut down Sony's PSN, they can take down government and political parties webpages, They try to hack huge networks just for "fame". Or they intrude a whole bank network and steal more than hundred million Euro. They can, and they do. And this will never change, because it's always neck and neck, and each exploit/security vulnerability can only be fixed, after it has been found. The time between announcement of the vulnerability and the deployment of the fix to each and every server in the network is the gap that hackers can use. And sometimes they are first, finding a gap in the source code, which is in most cases open for the common internet server systems...
That's the simple truth.
100% data safety is utopic dreaming. Especially on the internet.

I'm thinking the same thing. As far as relying on the site for back-up is concerned, what's the big deal? You can't store your files in too many places - this is just another one. And if/when the site goes down, you simply transfer to collaborators the old fashioned way.

So I'm intrigued. The problem with transferring an entire project if often that the file size is often WAY too large, if Gobbler has a way of maintaining things such that edits or even file additions don't require re-uploading and downloading the entire project.  That's significant.

I use Gobbler, my account is fine. Most studios and session players I work with use it, because you can exchange large ProTools sessions. It's pretty much the standard for a lot of pro studios.

How is it different than sharing a project folder via dropbox?