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I don't know that the apple analogy holds up. Yes, an apple could be perceived as a hand grenade by a crazy person, but a sane person could see how boxopus wil
by dave_sullivan 14y ago
I don't know that the apple analogy holds up. Yes, an apple could be perceived as a hand grenade by a crazy person, but a sane person could see how boxopus will likely be used for piracy.
And maybe that's just fine, but it's kind of drop box's house, their rules. It's like if you own a building and your new tenant, a computer repair store, decides to pivot to being a medical marijuana dispensary. Hey, it's legal-ish, but you can't really fault the landlord for kicking them out.
Plus, once you take 400 million, you're part of the system and you don't need to make yourself a bigger target than you already are.
- wissler 14y ago"but a sane person could see how boxopus will likely be used for piracy." And a sane person could see how a butter knife could be used for murder.
- richbradshaw 14y agoTo be fair, Dropbox doesn't allow upload of any type of knife.
- Retric 14y agoTo be pedantic, Dropbox doesn't allow upload of any type of physical knife.
- tspiteri 14y agoThe most common use of a butter knife is not murder.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoMy most common use of torrents is not piracy.
- gyardley 14y agoWell, sure, but 'my' != 'the'.
- nodrama 14y agoeach person should be judged individually. When you punish the whole group... that's just communism.
- dr42 14y agoa minority view, I am sure.
- metafour 14y agoThis is what I was wondering about on a greater scale. Do you happen to have a link to recent statistics that show this is the case for torrent traffic in general?
- jlmendezbonini 14y agoI found two studies from 2010: one by a Princeton student[1] and one by the University of Ballarat (Australia) [2]. Both of then found that the vast majority of bittorrent traffic, not surprisingly, is illegal and both were heavily critiziced. I quote: "...89.9 per cent of them were illegal and, of the remainder, 8.2 per cent was porn."[2] "Overall, about one percent of the total files were categorized as "likely noninfringing."[1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/01/bittorrent-census-about-99-of-files-copyright-infringing/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/01/bittorrent-census-ab... [2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/only-03-of-files-on-bit-torrent-confirmed-to-be-legal/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/07/only-03-of-files-...