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Ah, okay.
Yes but the only way Dropbox has to determine if a file violates DMCA is if they receive a Notice (Takedown Notice) from somebody claiming to be the copyright holder of that document and asking for its removal. That is not the same thing as Dropbox personnel searching through files and trying to make a judgment call on whether or not the file is legal and then contacting the copyright holders themselves.
In the case of Dropbox - nobody except those who have permission to look at your folders can search to see what you have stored on those servers. In my case that would be my laptop, my husband's Macbook, our iPADs etc etc. Well, nobody except those who have permission and I guess Dropbox personnel as we discussed. But they shouldn't be doing that and if it came to light that they were it would severely harm the company.
It is a bit different than say like Rapidshare, where there are search engines that will try to find files and then anybody with the link to the file can download it and view it.
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