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I think OP is being sarcastic, referring to a comment on the original Show HN for Dropbox.
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This one I think:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#42There are 0 details here. Does anyone know what the secret TOS violation is supposed to be?
No, that's what secret means.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#43This wouldn't happen with SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.
What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.
Such as?
Syncthing + NextCloud + rsnapshot backups would have been my open-source alternative recommendation, but of course not everyone wants to take the time to learn that skillet, set that up, and maintain it.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.
Seriously, SFTP + Syncthing + Filebrowser completely replaces Dropbox for me. Name one feature thats not present in this stack.
Regular marketing emails.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#46Hopefully this will stop HNers from linking everyone ye olde "this is why Dropbox is better than your nerdass solution" comment, and hopefully it vindicates everyone over the years who countered that argument by asking what happens when Dropbox deletes your account apropos of nothing...
Unless your "nerdass solution" involves hosting your own server, then you don't have any additional protection.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#47Would this be some automated system that looks for copyrighted works?
How can an automated system know the identity of users and what rights and licensing agreements they hold?
It can't. False positives are a trade-off against the administrative, legal and regulatory burdens of not having such a system on a UGC-hosting site at scale.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#48Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
I ditched them for OneDrive which comes with an Office365 subscription. OneDrive is buggy, has file naming issues (on MacOS at least), is a memory hog, and has a host of other issues. So I tried iCloud+ which comes with AppleOne subscription, and it lacks some of the sharing/directory collab features I wanted.
So yes, there are alternatives, many of which are free or included in other subscriptions, but they lack the focus of Dropbox, which Dropbox itself nearly lost when it tried to become something beyond file storage, versioning, and sharing.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#49This is an inevitable consequence from the push to make cloud companies responsible for the content they host. Analyzing all of it can only be automated; automation will deliver weird false positives.
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