How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)

[Venustus]

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http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/how-dropbox-knows-when-youre-sharing-copyrighted-stuff-without-actually-looking-at-your-stuff/

Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user’s account.

wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me.http://t.co/fSKxJUrFus—
darrell whitelaw (@darrellwhitelaw) March 30, 2014

As of this afternoon, it’s seen just shy of 3 thousand retweets.

What was going on? Was Dropbox suddenly doing something sketchy? Were they suddenly lurking around their users folders, digging for copyrighted material hiding amongst personal files?

Nope. The system is neither new, nor sketchy. It’s been in place for years, and it’s about as unsketchy as an anti-copyright infringement system can get. It allows Dropbox to block pre-selected files from being shared from person-to-person (thus keeping Dropbox from getting raided by the Feds), without their anti-infringement system having any idea what most of your files actually are.

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[Venhiem]

Oh well, never used it anyway but thanks for the read.

 

[Venustus]

Thanks!

 

[woomera]

users need to stop being retarded and if want to share an illegal file encrypt or password protect it first. heh

 

[Venustus]

users need to stop being retarded and if want to share an illegal file encrypt or password protect it first. heh

Agreed!

 

[Rahadian Putra]

At least, perhaps people would be more carefully or think twice if they deciding to sharing copyrighted materials at the first place
thanks for the information as always buddy

 

[Dima007]

Thanks

 

[sunil22]

Thanks mate good to know in the cyber world