Meskarune writes "Dropbox is trying to kill the Dropship project, a useful program that allows users to import files into their accounts using hashes and bypassing the need to make files public. Dropbox sent out fake DMCA requests to all parties involved, and is banning and censoring the program."...

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Ever heard of Dropship? It’s an open-source project that “enables arbitrary, anonymous transfers of files between Dropbox accounts.” Dropbox hopes you haven’t; they tried to squelch it this week, and even accidentally reported that it was subject to a DMCA takedown notice, with predictably futile results. I’m mostly sympathetic: I’m a huge fan of their service, Dropship was a clear violation of their terms, and for obvious reasons they don’t want to turn into an anonymous peer-to-peer file-s...

'Torrent successor' Dropship drop-kicked By Cade Metz in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Music and Media, 26th April 2011 18:04 GMT On Demand Webcast : Making the decision on hosted apps - What’s the risk and reward? Dropbox – the San Francisco startup that offers a free service for sharing files over the net – has suppressed a fledgling open source project that lets anyone use the service outside of its control, saying the project exposed Dropbox's proprietary protocol a...

Yesterday morning I woke up much earlier than I wanted. Instead of lying in bed, wishing I was asleep, I decided to get up and check out Hacker News. Better to waste my time reading industry news than lying around. One headline in particular caught my attention: “Dropship — successor to torrents?“. The name was an obvious reference to Dropbox and the suggestion it could replace torrents was enticing. Data storage and distribution has been a long time interest of mine and I can’t resist readi...

Have you ever dreamt about the ability to download new movies in a super fast, safe way from distributed network? Are you intrested in being always seeded, in downloading with maximum bandwidth wherever you are, 24/7, with super safe connection and being extremly anonymous — read below (NOTE: This article is about THEORETICAL ability to use Dropbox to other purpose. It has been done by laanwj. I have never done it before, because I just didn’t know how to do it — reverse engineering of PE/EL...

Alternative for torrents? Millions of users, ready to share with their files? Fast, anonymous, cipher way to download files? Always accessible seed? Everything you need to do that is Dropship — connection of Dropbox and application created by Wladimir van der Laan. — is written in Python. It allow us to download to our Dropbox any file, which description we got in JSON format (similar as description propagated in .torrent files). After my article about Dropbox’s public folder scaner, my theo...

Jak publiczne są dane w katalogu Public, który jest udostępniany przez Dropbox. Okazuje się, że leży tam wiele danych i powinny one być raczej chronione.