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Google Drive will hit a billion users this week

31 points by kbyatnal 8y ago

est 8y ago
How many of them are solely Google Photos users?
yosito 8y ago
Well, I account for at least 6 of them.
millstone 8y ago
I had no idea this service was so popular. I just read the Drive TOS [1] and was astonished: When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through Google Drive, you give Google a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our services, and to develop new ones. They're asserting the right to publish and publicly display anything you put on Drive for the purpose of promoting Google products. Dropbox TOS: [2]: We need your permission to do things like hosting Your Stuff, backing it up, and sharing it when you ask us to. Our Services also provide you with features like photo thumbnails, document previews, commenting, easy sorting, editing, sharing, and searching. These and other features may require our systems to access, store, and scan Your Stuff. You give us permission to do those things, and this permission extends to our affiliates and trusted third parties we work with. Accessing, storing, and scanning feels reasonable though not thrilled about "affiliates." iCloud Drive's TOS [3]: ...by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you. Apple claims the right to publish your content only if you choose to share it, and solely for the sharing purpose. Google's really out of line here! 1: https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/ https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/ 2: https://www.dropbox.com/terms https://www.dropbox.com/terms 3: https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/terms.html https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/t...
- ericpauley 8y ago
  See also the adendums at https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en These likely supercede Google's license.
  - kevin_b_er 8y ago
    They do not. The "license" is a contract. You still have the potential copyright, just google may use it for promotional material as they please.
- deleted 8y ago
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kapauldo 8y ago
Is Dropbox doomed?

31 points by kbyatnal 8y ago

est 8y ago

How many of them are solely Google Photos users?

yosito 8y ago

Well, I account for at least 6 of them.

millstone 8y ago

I had no idea this service was so popular. I just read the Drive TOS [1] and was astonished: When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through Google Drive, you give Google a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our services, and to develop new ones. They're asserting the right to publish and publicly display anything you put on Drive for the purpose of promoting Google products. Dropbox TOS: [2]: We need your permission to do things like hosting Your Stuff, backing it up, and sharing it when you ask us to. Our Services also provide you with features like photo thumbnails, document previews, commenting, easy sorting, editing, sharing, and searching. These and other features may require our systems to access, store, and scan Your Stuff. You give us permission to do those things, and this permission extends to our affiliates and trusted third parties we work with. Accessing, storing, and scanning feels reasonable though not thrilled about "affiliates." iCloud Drive's TOS [3]: ...by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you. Apple claims the right to publish your content only if you choose to share it, and solely for the sharing purpose. Google's really out of line here! 1: https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/ https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/ 2: https://www.dropbox.com/terms https://www.dropbox.com/terms 3: https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/terms.html https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/t...

ericpauley 8y ago
See also the adendums at https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en These likely supercede Google's license.
- kevin_b_er 8y ago
  They do not. The "license" is a contract. You still have the potential copyright, just google may use it for promotional material as they please.
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kapauldo 8y ago

Is Dropbox doomed?