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I'm not sure how much they save with deduplication. Dropbox is very expensive per GB, so people don't back up system files etc., and they preemptively block sha

by qq66 12y ago

I'm not sure how much they save with deduplication. Dropbox is very expensive per GB, so people don't back up system files etc., and they preemptively block sharing of copyrighted files. What deduplication can they do on a large scale? I don't think I have even one file in my Dropbox account that can be deduplicated.

nieve 12y ago
You can have copyrighted files uploaded, I believe you can even share them with another account. What you can't do is get a public download link for a copyrighted file. I guess the latter cuts some of the motivation, but plenty of people are still going to be putting those files into the dropboxes.