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28/06/2012

Dropbox bans Boxopus BitTorrent service, citing piracy concerns

Dropbox bans Boxopus BitTorrent service, citing piracy concerns: Boxopus






Cloud storage service Dropbox has blocked access to Boxopus, a service that let people download files through BitTorrent directly to their Dropbox folders. After being featured on TorrentFreak and other sites late last week, Boxopus says it received the following message from a Dropbox engineer:
It’s come to our attention that latest Boxopus features could be perceived as encouraging users to violate copyright using Dropbox. Violating copyright is against our terms of service, so we are terminating your app’s API access. Once your access is revoked, any API calls your app makes will fail.
At this point, the Boxopus site is still up, but attempting to sign in with Dropbox leads to a "page not found" error and the company says its...
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