Dropbox Changing TOS
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We sometimes need your permission to do what you ask us to do with your stuff (for example, hosting, making public, or sharing your files). By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) of, perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent reasonably necessary for the Service.This license is solely to enable us to technically administer, display, and operate the Services. You must ensure you have the rights you need to grant us that permission.
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/03/time-to-drop-the-box-dropbox-modifies-tos/
Thoughts?
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They want their cake and you can't have any.
EDIT: Ok yeah, overreaction, but the wording certainly makes it seem like they can get away with using your work for whatever they want. Deviantart has the same wording in their TOS, and I can't say I particularly like that.
Although I'd love to have a good script for dropbox like sharing which I can run on my own webspace so I can send stuff to other people.
!!super fun link --->
http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846
<--- super fun link!!
Edit due to confusion: I was joking.
arguable - if I make a public folder on dreamhost, I'm not giving any rights to my work to the company that runs dreamhost.
I still have a high opinion of dropbox for non sensitive data, but I certainly would not put anything work related on services like this without explicit consent of our IT department. I just have the feeling they may have an issue signing over even partial usage rights to a 3rd party. As for my own data....damn you China for blocking every single usable web service.
I just share a few pics and some password protected zipped files (7z) i delete after my friends download them, so TOS apart... i won't be deleting my account
Yeah, Its nowhere near as bad as people are saying.
We have to be reasonable, they'd lose everything if they were to pull any kind of trick abusing their TOS, they want to keep their customers.
and a lot of the agreement is similar to what you get with gmail and gdocs.
mostly just dropbox protecting them-selfs against users claiming mis-use of there data and from users posting stuff that could be break laws in certain countries.
im still going to be keeping my 50gb dropbox account.
I guess dropbox need the same kind of "permission" to be able to manipulate your files to create a public link.
Now that said, I could be totally wrong... just the way I did understand the thing.
LOL at people who are deleting their accounts over this... good luck pulling your hair out when your external HDDwith your whole portfolio on goes flying cause you didn't keep an online backup! Hope you backed up to DVD
You're all being ridiculous.
Dropbox is just a service like it was before. It's just protecting its ass with this disclaimer.
OMG HURRY AND DELETE THE INTERNET!
http://lifehacker.com/5816937/boxcryptor-encrypts-files-on-the-fly-on-windows-accessible-on-maclinux-works-great-with-dropbox
QFT
To make it more secure, why not use 7zip, and use one of those fancy encryption which will require to extract the files with 7zip again, with the right command.
Time to delete my account, facists!
They are? Oh Shit! That tears it! IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZAR:
stop.
THEY DUN STOLE MY EYE PEE!
I think they wanted people to be aware that if a user shares copyrighted material, the user is legally responsible in the case the copyright holder takes legal action, and not Dropbox.
But their wording was a little confusing at first.