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That's wonderfully devious. And probably quite straightforward to implement. I hope it doesn't happen, because that'd be a bit of a nightmare for Dropbox. They
by TillE 16y ago
That's wonderfully devious. And probably quite straightforward to implement.
I hope it doesn't happen, because that'd be a bit of a nightmare for Dropbox. They could blacklist known pirate rips of movies and the like, but what do you do when you receive a takedown notice for DRM-free content that some users are legitimately storing, but Dropbox is now (accidentally) illegally distributing? Could be the end of global de-duping.
- shasta 16y agoIf this really became a problem for Dropbox, one response would be to have the server issue random challenges to clients that purport to have the file.