Comments on: Dropbox Bans BitTorrent Startup Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns

By: kaka

kaka — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:04:00 +0000

@ Sick… Guess you never heard of “The Printing Press”…. The first form of piracy…. Piracy came first ;)

Suggest all you “Copyright” supports do a bit of reading into the history… Copyright is good… It’s current incarnation is NOT and is just another example of idiots with no foresight!

By: Boxopus, The Dropbox Torrent Startup Wants to Buy Your Idea for 50$ in Hopes it Will Save Their Business | #GeekBlogTV

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:06:04 +0000

[...] Earlier this month we covered Boxopus, the startup that wants to be the link between Bit Torrent and your Dropbox by downloading the torrents for you, and then dropping them in your sync folder for extra anonymity and less risk. You may also remember that Dropbox dropped them from the API like a bad habit when the inevitable bad press hit. [...]

By: gubatron

gubatron — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:57:00 +0000

“I think in this situation Drop Box was cowering to the corrupt power of the MPAA and RIAA”

a corrupt power which according to Kim Dotcom goes to the highest offices of the US.

By: gubatron

gubatron — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:56:00 +0000

yes, I bet dropbox execs said, we don’t need to deal with the MPAA and RIAA bullshit, just cut them off, this is ludacris, plus cutting them off will give us some free publicity.

By: gubatron

gubatron — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:55:00 +0000

oh, that explains everything, but now it seems to me like an even more stupid business idea, one doomed out of existence by copyright trolls in a heartbeat since they’d be seeding lots of illegal content themselves for others, doesn’t matter if the files are stored in drop-box, the ones making them directly available as a proxy would’ve been boxopus.

Cool for the user, but being a service (not a filesharing tool) super-prone to being an accomplice of copyright infringement every second.

By: Danjimaru

Danjimaru — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:57:00 +0000

the idea is: use the cloud to seed…
If I go on vacation my 100 or so open seed jobs go offline because I turn off all electricity in the house for the time I’m away.

Boxopus would have allowed for the seed jobs to stay active while my pc is off.

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Adsense SEo » Dropbox Bans Bittorrent Startup Boxopus from Service — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:01:35 +0000

[...] most users praised Boxopus for their innovation, Dropbox, were less than delighted. According to TorrentFreak, a Dropbox engineer sent the following email to the Boxopus team: “It’s come to our attention [...]

By: StupidPeopleShouldntBreed

StupidPeopleShouldntBreed — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:31:00 +0000

puff puff pass man, stop bogartin the good chit!

By: : neutek : Boxopus – Torrents Directly On Your Dropbox

: neutek : Boxopus – Torrents Directly On Your Dropbox — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:15:25 +0000

[...] Hardly had Boxopus taken off when news about its banning came storming on the web. Apparently, Dropbox doesn’t want the [...]

By: Dropbox Bans Bittorrent Startup Boxopus from Service | Best Seedbox

Dropbox Bans Bittorrent Startup Boxopus from Service | Best Seedbox — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:05:47 +0000

[...] most users praised Boxopus for their innovation, Dropbox, were less than delighted. According to TorrentFreak, a Dropbox engineer sent the following email to the Boxopus [...]