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by kanak 5554 days ago
> I believe I read somewhere here on HN that DropBox actually only stores a single version of a file.

This is definitely true. For example, if you put a video show you got off of eztv in your dropbox, the upload is instantenously complete. Why? because someone else has already put that file into dropbox so you don't need to upload it as well.