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by brandur 3392 days ago
> Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform.

Is there some kind of reference you can point at to support this pretty wild claim?

Even if true, this seems the kind of informal policy that could change on a whim.

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Google Drive TOS: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?visit_id=1-636...

"Respect copyright laws. Do not share copyrighted content without authorization or provide links to sites where your readers can obtain unauthorized downloads of copyrighted content."

Note the "share", there's no reference to merely storing content.

Dropbox does seem to be "informal" though. They simply say they respond to complaints. I'm not sure how you'd be subjected to a complaint storing data privately though.