Dropbox dropping Public Folders

edbro · 06-15-2012, 08:21 AM

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62381&replies=13

It appears current users will be able to keep public folders but Dropbox is phasing them out for new users. No more catalog support?

FizzyWater · 06-15-2012, 07:32 PM

Do you think this is to avoid problems with being seeing as promoting/allowing illegal filesharing? The new way to share ANY folder with a link, without officially making it Public and potentially readable by large amounts of people seemed like a way to avoid having to police users. I know I'm not being particularly clear - wasn't this something that came out of the whole Megaupload bruhaha?

kovidgoyal · 06-15-2012, 11:38 PM

I doubt that. The sharing with a link scheme is exactly the way sharing used to work on mega upload. More likely they do not want people to use their service as a CDN/simple webhost.

06-15-2012, 08:21 AM	#1
edbro Banned Posts: 640 Karma: 4911 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Grapevine, TX Device: iPad4	Dropbox dropping Public Folders http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62381&replies=13 It appears current users will be able to keep public folders but Dropbox is phasing them out for new users. No more catalog support?

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06-15-2012, 07:32 PM	#2
FizzyWater You kids get off my lawn! Posts: 4,220 Karma: 73492664 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Device: Oasis 2 and Libra H2O and half a dozen older models I can't let go of	Do you think this is to avoid problems with being seeing as promoting/allowing illegal filesharing? The new way to share ANY folder with a link, without officially making it Public and potentially readable by large amounts of people seemed like a way to avoid having to police users. I know I'm not being particularly clear - wasn't this something that came out of the whole Megaupload bruhaha?

06-15-2012, 11:38 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I doubt that. The sharing with a link scheme is exactly the way sharing used to work on mega upload. More likely they do not want people to use their service as a CDN/simple webhost.

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