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Originally Posted by ShellShock
There is no such thing as a free lunch, so what is the catch? It is obvious what we get out of this, but what is in it for Dropbox/Copy etc? Is there a lot of advertising, do they try to sell you things? How secure is my data?
I would want to know what I am getting into before signing up.
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If you have doubts, don't do it. Dropbox has been working reliably for me for some years now, I was on board with the beta. Sugarsync and Box.net are also reliable. I don't expect Copy to be any different. I have seen no advertising, and have had no spam. If I get spam I'll be out. Well, except for the inevitable periodic emails to persuade you to upgrade... thats expected and should not be considered spam...
They have paid options for those who require a lot more storage than the free option allows.
https://www.copy.com/price/ Most free offers have options to go paid. I dont need 250Gb (and wouldnt even want to sync that much, let alone 500Gb which is the other paid option). Seriously, its fine.
HOWEVER you should NEVER depend entirely on one solution. For example, my calibre library is in 4 locations, as well as being backed up to an external drive (as the contents of all the synced folders are, anyway)... multiple redundancy.. you dont lose stuff that way.