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People have used Google Drive for sharing pirated stuffs since forever. Google usually blocks it by restricting downloading instead of removing the file, but pe
by ncann 5y ago
People have used Google Drive for sharing pirated stuffs since forever. Google usually blocks it by restricting downloading instead of removing the file, but people kept finding out new ways to get around that, like making a copy of the file in your own drive, or selecting that file and another one to download so that Google zips up both into one zip file before downloading.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoPeople have been using password protected archives to get around pirated content restrictions since forever.
- unilynx 5y agoDoes Google even have to look at the content? I assume most pirated content will also have a massive number of anonymous downloads, and shouldn't that trigger some fair-usage clause somewhere ?
- gentleman11 5y agoSame for game mods
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThey block upload even if you're not sharing it.
- Namidairo 5y agoThey already rate limit popular files that match these patterns. They don't actually block the file though, and there were (and still are) ways around the rate limit. (Which presumably they knew about to some extent, given you now cannot make copies of said files.) They could easily start taking action on obvious copyright violations using Drive, but it's unlikely they would want to, unless actually mandated to legally. I'm not sure what they would do about massive encrypted collections that have been rcloned onto their servers though. Aside from "please stop breaking our de-duplication".