Use Dropbox to *cough* Share Things?

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Well if you do, you might want to reconsider. Not that you should be sharing things anyway. Article is brief and talks about how hashing allows them to scan and remove files that copyrighted without going through your things. Pretty interesting stuff;

 
[h1]How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)[/h1]
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 Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user’s account.
 

As of this afternoon, it’s seen just shy of 3 thousand retweets.

What was going on? Was Dropbox suddenly doing something sketchy? Were they suddenly lurking around their users’ folders, digging for copyrighted material hiding amongst personal files?
Read the rest of the article here:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/30/ho...stuff-without-actually-looking-at-your-stuff/

 
 
It just stops the file from being shared it doesn't delete it from your local folder. I think you can just change the name of the file to get around it?
 
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