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I am a small business owners. I pay for google one so that all my files are backed up and sync across devices. I also pay for backblaze to backup all my files (Just in the case google screws me). Is there an alternative for encrypted backup & sync between different computers?

I use Dropbox for almost 10 years and I have been using it well so far!

Dropbox offers great file history and restoration support. One day I deleted files permanently then the team kindly supported my case to restore the files within a day.

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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Copyright is fundamentally a monopoly on data. The very name implies that you can restrict who can copy data, how many copies can be made. Copying data is among the most basic, fundamental computer operations. Therefore all computers are inherently capable of violating copyright, they merely need to be instructed to do so. It's the 21st century and copyright is absolute nonsense. Computers make it seem absurd by triv…

> So in order for copyright to exist in the 21st century, it must be impossible for us to instruct computers to do anything. This is not true. It could be enforced by courts and not by computers. Courts are slower and more expensive, so they'll only be used for the most egregious violations. But that's fine. Those are the high value ones. You wrote some code or made a movie, Netflix wants to use it, Netflix has to pa…

> This is not true. It could be enforced by courts and not by computers.

No, this doesn't get you through the century with copyright intact. Bandwidth and storage only get cheaper, and copyright-able files are not getting proportionally larger.

Eventually--and the 21st century does seem like a reasonable timeframe--something like Google Glass is going to become the norm, for all people, all of the time. Somehow or other we will patch the imperfections of memory and information exchange; think of it like recording everything you see and hear and being able to instantly share those recordings with those around you. We can already do this with a sentence or two of text or the gist of a melody! In the future it'll be a full book, or a song. It's no different from inventing vehicles that allow us to travel at hundreds of miles per hour.

What does copyright look like as the ease of recording and repeating an experience increases at the rate of the past few decades? If technology is in reach that would blur the line between "recording" and "remembering", and "recounting" and "copying", are we going to just say "no" to it? Allow our memories and communication skills to remain in their ancestral, imperfect state just because it is imperative that those who "own" certain bitstreams be paid whenever they reach a new consciousness?

Human courts can't enforce copyright when faced 2050's technology. Not when we can "memorize" and "repeat" everything we hear with the same ease that we memorize or repeat a haiku today.

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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Can you file a counter-notice _in absence of_ a DMCA notice? The problem at hand is not DMCA.

Google claimed a copyright violation and did a takedown. That's what DMCA counter-notices are for. They phrased it in other terms, but ask a lawyer if that matters.

It matters for counter notice that they didn't issue a DMCA notice, you can always sue them of course, but since the first action is not under framework of DMCA, you cannot issue a counter notice to what is not a DMCA notice.

The lawsuit is not strong either because their ToS says they can delete your all your data for any and no reason at all.

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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It looks like those files are marked as public. Does it trigger for you on files not being shared?

I didn't try that. I marked them public because I assumed that's what triggers the scan.

Does it just prevent you from sharing the files or does it prevent you from accessing the file as well?

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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I am a small business owners. I pay for google one so that all my files are backed up and sync across devices. I also pay for backblaze to backup all my files (Just in the case google screws me). Is there an alternative for encrypted backup & sync between different computers?

Depending on how technically inclined you are something like Tarsnap might be a good fit. [1]

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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"A review cannot be requested for this restriction" ML enforcing rules is bad enough, but not allowing false positives to be corrected is ridiculous. This is why I would never consider g-suite for any business application. Otoh, I think there is a legitimate business to be made helping small businesses and individuals secure themselves against arbitrary behavior from big tech. This kind of thing can have serious cons…

I think the most likely outcome is much like the services they offer to help with settling airplane ticket compensation. I presume most of them are actually in service of the airplane operators. Imagine a device that indeed offers to help small time companies in resolving the issues with big tech. The business case will eventually come up to just buy them up and slowly drain their effectivity, while upping the rate t…

> I presume most of them are actually in service of the airplane operators.

why?

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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I am a small business owners. I pay for google one so that all my files are backed up and sync across devices. I also pay for backblaze to backup all my files (Just in the case google screws me). Is there an alternative for encrypted backup & sync between different computers?

You're talking about their subscription, Google [Removed for DMCA Violation]?

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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Copyright was always bizarre in the sense that any information can be expressed as numbers. So why are some numbers more copyrightable? Also reminds me this ("Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes"): https://web.archive.org/web/20100607151726/http://www.theoni...

Any novel can be expressed as a sequence of alphabetical characters. So why are these copyrightable?

Re: Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

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All software has bugs; I'm not mad at all that this silly test case was flagged incorrectly. The truly infuriating part is "A review cannot be requested for this restriction." Translation: "We have no idea if you actually own this content or not, but it would be _way too expensive_ for us to find out for sure! So you're out of luck, but don't worry — it's all worth it so we can make sure children can't stream Marvel…

It'd be nice if the law had a escrow appeal process. Alleged violator now posts a $100 escrow, now accuser has to do the same. Then Google reviews it, makes a decision, and loser has to pay for it.
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