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by bobofettfett 4124 days ago
What if they upload file hashes? What if they upload name+type+size to fingerprint files? They don't need to upload file contents for fingerprinting your drive content.
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Hmm there is a business model right there!

Fingerprint popular torrent movie/tv/games etc files and then monitor (via dropbox) their spread and how many computers around the world they end up on, I bet movie studios would love to measure exactly how much piracy affects them

shiiiittt

And we know automatic DCMA bots work on size and name alone.