Isn't DMCA US only law, thereby having no legal effect whatsoever in the EU?

Yes, but DMCA is in affect for US based users on either end. If the "sender" is in the EU and the "receiver" is in the US, DMCA is still valid. Same going the other way. It's much easier for DropBox to just comply worldwide than to worry about what country every user is in. EU has their own copyright laws anyway. Dropbox also has 2 physical locations in the US and thus has to comply with US law or risk those offices getting ransacked by the FBI.....and we all know how much the FBI likes to perform "search and seizure" operations.

Another excellent reason for not using my DropBox allocation on the Note 3.

Easily defeatable if you were bothered about it. Its what all file hosting sites have been doing for a long time.

The cloud is so 2000's, if we want a true free internet the future e decentralization, and not put every on one server controlled by no one knows who. There's a torrent based program that does the same as dropbox, can't recall the name.

Easily defeatable if you were bothered about it. Its what all file hosting sites have been doing for a long time.

What's the point? The only people actually worried by this, are those that know they're illegally sharing copyrighted files....and most of those people won't be using Dropbox anyway.

What's the point? The only people actually worried by this, are those that know they're illegally sharing copyrighted files....and most of those people won't be using Dropbox anyway.

You would be surprised. Many cracked APKs I've seen being shared were hosted on Dropbox. Applications that cost a couple bucks or so, too, seriously. After a $700 phone, people would be using cracked APKs out of all pirated software.

Isn't DMCA US only law, thereby having no legal effect whatsoever in the EU?

Though DMCA only applies to Americans. But Dropbox is a u.s. based company. By the way DMCA is not law. Let's try not to glorify it. If you encrypt the file s you want to share using zip or EncFS (hxxp://ninjatips.com/encrypt-dropbox-using-encfs/) i don't think Dropbox can look into your files.

Isn't DMCA US only law, thereby having no legal effect whatsoever in the EU?

The EU has their own version of the DMCA. Which is far more tolerable.

Dropbox still ranks pretty high over at EFF:

We’re pleased to see that four five six seven companies—Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Sonic.net, SpiderOak, and Twitter—are implementing five out of five of our best practices for encryption. See the infographic.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-whos-doing-what Though HTTPS still isn't as great as OpenPGP for sharing stuff you're truly worried about people snooping.

When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private information? Do they stand with you? Do they let you know what’s going on? In this annual report, the Electronic Frontier Foundation examined the policies of major Internet companies — including ISPs, email providers, cloud storage providers, location-based services, blogging platforms, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user data. The purpose of this report is to incentivize companies to be transparent about how data flows to the government and encourage them to take a stand for user privacy whenever it is possible to do so. We compiled the information in this report by examining each company’s published terms of service, privacy policy, transparency report, and guidelines for law enforcement requests, if any. We also considered the company’s public record of fighting for user privacy in the courts and whether it is a member of the Digital Due Process coalition, which encourages Congress to improve outdated communications law. Finally, we contacted each company to explain our findings and gave them an opportunity to provide evidence of improved policies and practices. These categories are not the only ways that a company can stand up for users, of course, but they are important and publicly verifiable. In addition, not every company has faced a decision about whether to stand up for users in the courts, but we wanted to particularly commend those companies who have done so when given with the opportunity.

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013 http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-dropbox-join-electronic-privacy-act-fight/ In short, Dropbox is still one of the better/best file hosts. File hashes wouldn't really matter if you uploaded in a strong passworded .zip.

What happens when you upload encrypted files to DropBox?.. are they double encrypted? I've uploaded encrypted files to my Mediafire account before, and they all became corrupt.

What happens when you upload encrypted files to DropBox?.. are they double encrypted? I've uploaded encrypted files to my Mediafire account before, and they all became corrupt.

Presumably yeah, since they're not actually scanning the file they wouldn't know it's encrypted anyway and would just go ahead and encrypt it again.

You can use AESCRYPT to encrypt the content of your file. Rename it, and supply the password to whosoever needs it. That's simple, not much dropbox can do. File Encryption System is your best friend, use it. Learn how to use PGP as well. I host all of sensitive information via Google Drive encrypted with BoxCryptor using AES256. So if Google wants to see what's inside my "Drive" then they're **** of out luck. What's nice about Boxcryptor is that they're located in EU. So they're not under US jurisdiction. Boxcryptor supports the follow cloud services: Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box, and other providers as well. You can see the listing of supported cloud base services on this website: https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/provider For more information: https://www.boxcryptor.com/ http://www.aescrypt.com/ http://www.truecrypt.org/ L2Protectyourself. Truly yours, Shade.

I store some sensitive data @ Dropbox and Copy, however not as raw files, but inside a TrueCrypt volume. You can make such volume inside synced folder or elsewhere and move it to synced folder, then mount it, use it as a regular "USB Drive", dismount. Just make sure, you go to Menu -> Settings -> Preferences -> Windows groupbox -> uncheck Preserve modification timestamp of file containers. By default, TrueCrypt keeps the old modification time, so it's more difficult to guess which files are TC volumes. However I had some issues with various syncing programs if this option was enabled, and only DropBox worked fine. Perhaps it changed since I tried, but it's a thing to be concerned about, especially in case of sync conflicts. Anyway, be it DropBox, Copy, Google Drive, OneDrive - they upload files in blocks, and if only a few blocks of a big file change, only they are uploaded. Just after DropBox was launched, it had some issues with it, but it works fine now. Thanks to that you can make a file-based TrueCrypt Volume, store sensitive data there (use a password that is easy to remember, but hard to crack; eventually you can give it to someone who you trust), let it perform full sync for the first time, and then further syncs will be pretty fast unless you change a lot. Just remember that file sync services don't know what's inside and TC free space is encrypted too. So if you change a lot inside such volume, and even clean up after these changes, there will be quite a lot of stuff to sync.

I store some sensitive data @ Dropbox and Copy, however not as raw files, but inside a TrueCrypt volume. You can make such volume inside synced folder or elsewhere and move it to synced folder, then mount it, use it as a regular "USB Drive", dismount. Just make sure, you go to Menu -> Settings -> Preferences -> Windows groupbox -> uncheck Preserve modification timestamp of file containers. By default, TrueCrypt keeps the old modification time, so it's more difficult to guess which files are TC volumes. However I had some issues with various syncing programs if this option was enabled, and only DropBox worked fine. Perhaps it changed since I tried, but it's a thing to be concerned about, especially in case of sync conflicts. Anyway, be it DropBox, Copy, Google Drive, OneDrive - they upload files in blocks, and if only a few blocks of a big file change, only they are uploaded. Just after DropBox was launched, it had some issues with it, but it works fine now. Thanks to that you can make a file-based TrueCrypt Volume, store sensitive data there (use a password that is easy to remember, but hard to crack; eventually you can give it to someone who you trust), let it perform full sync for the first time, and then further syncs will be pretty fast unless you change a lot. Just remember that file sync services don't know what's inside and TC free space is encrypted too. So if you change a lot inside such volume, and even clean up after these changes, there will be quite a lot of stuff to sync.

Boxcryptor works beautifully (they use AES256 which is more than enough). What you're saying is that TrueCrypt can sync to any cloud services? If that's true then how do I enable this such feature in TrueCrypt? Let me know.

The cloud is so 2000's, if we want a true free internet the future e decentralization, and not put every on one server controlled by no one knows who. There's a torrent based program that does the same as dropbox, can't recall the name.

There's a bunch of them, actually. The one I use is BitTorrent Sync but I hear good things about Tonido.

Have you guys tried viivo? It can encrypt files on the client's side before upload to the cloud. It is from the same company made pkzip. I just installed and so far it looked good.:banana: