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Hopefully 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...
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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.
Edit: You completely rewrote you comment after I responded, that is considered bad form on HN.
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Would this be some automated system that looks for copyrighted works?
Although in the olden days it was nice in that if they detected a matching hash of your file, it didn’t actually upload it, you just had it. So that was super handy. For pirating as well as for situations where I have the same file in multiple location. I legitimately have disk images in dropbox because cheap storage and having them immediately sync and be backed up was nice to save on bandwidth.
Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
I have free OneDrive through my university, and I pay $99/year and I have it through work. With multiple TB available. Yet I still use Dropbox because it’s way more usable. Running the OneDrive agent is a hobby and it spikes my machine a few times a day. Running Dropbox is something that just works and has worked for 10 years without me ever noticing the sync app (a good thing). I avoid Google because I wouldn’t want…
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How valuable are those features after Dropbox deletes all of your data and deactivates your account?
Why can't your VPS provider do the same thing?
VPS provider doesn't even necessarily have read access to your data, and because you aren't relying on them for search/index features, encryption is much less expensive from a functionality standpoint.