Here's a mirror: https://github.com/steipete/dropship
Here I have mirrored Dropship on gitorious, enjoy.
https://gitorious.org/dropship/dropship
Dropship — successor to torrents?
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Re: Dropship — successor to torrents?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Merely having copyrighted files in your Dropbox is certainly no violation of copyright law. Actually, it could be. Copyright means exactly that: the right to copy.
Copyright law is quite a bit more complicated than that. It's at any rate not only the copyright owner who is allowed to make a copy. You can, for example, rip your CDs and copy those files on your HDD as often as you want.
Actually strictly speaking under the copyright law in this country, you cannot. It says "all rights reserved" on my CDs, and one of those rights is literally the right to copy. Bear in mind these laws were written a long time ago, when consumers did not have the means to make unauthorised copies, to prevent mass infringement.
Re: Dropship — successor to torrents?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copyright law is quite a bit more complicated than that. It's at any rate not only the copyright owner who is allowed to make a copy. You can, for example, rip your CDs and copy those files on your HDD as often as you want.
Actually strictly speaking under the copyright law in this country, you cannot. It says "all rights reserved" on my CDs, and one of those rights is literally the right to copy. Bear in mind these laws were written a long time ago, when consumers did not have the means to make unauthorised copies, to prevent mass infringement.
You can. 17 U.S.C. § 1008 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1008.html) allows consumers to make non-commercial copies (both digital and analog).
As I said, copyright law is quite complex and full of exceptions and clarifications.
Re: Dropship — successor to torrents?
#74It's a novel exploit of deduplication, but I don't see how it's practically any better than moving a file into the /Public directory and handing them a URL.
Dropbox has bandwidth limits on /Public URLs, particularly low for free accounts. This wholly circumvents that, and I suspect that's the real reason Arash asked for a takedown, not so much the loose association with piracy.
Dropbox could do the same for hashes. For example internet cannot download more than 400MB from a hash (4MB) per day.