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While it's easy to jump to conclusions, it might be a good idea to have a think and maybe ask some questions first. Dropbox provides a file sharing service, Bo
by iuguy 14y ago
While it's easy to jump to conclusions, it might be a good idea to have a think and maybe ask some questions first.
Dropbox provides a file sharing service, Boxopus uses this to provide torrent downloading services. Should Boxopus become popular, how will this impact Dropboxes cost base? Will people buy more dropbox space?
Are Dropbox possibly obliged to deactivate Boxopus due to onerous copyright rules? Is there anything in their underlying contractual arrangements with their suppliers for example that could result in the termination of dropbox's service, or are they just trying to cover their backsides?
I think this shows a good example of the increasingly common problem where startups tie themselves to a platform and suffer for it as well as benefit. They're looking for another storage provider, but who's to say this won't happen with a new provider too?
- Eduard 14y agoDropbox "tied itself" to Amazon's S3 services. Imagine the situation that Amazon had stopped providing S3 API access to Dropbox once Dropbox took off.
- pja 14y agoDropbox is big enough to procure their own storage by now I'd have thought.
- legutierr 14y agoOne question that you are not asking is whether this decision was affected in any way by the Megaupload case. If I were Dropbox, I would see arbitrary action by the US authorities as one of my greatest risks, and would do whatever it takes to stay in the good graces of the MPAA, given the apparent influence that they have over US law enforcement.
- cabalamat 14y agoI expect that's what's happened. Copyright maximialism succeeds, yet again, in killing creativity.
- crisnoble 14y agoIf you want to help them pick a new storage provider, they have a survey: http://blog.boxopus.com/index.php/2012/06/27/help-us-select-new-cloud-storage-service/ http://blog.boxopus.com/index.php/2012/06/27/help-us-select-...