Google Drive and Dropbox Illegal Filesharing Havens

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FrgMstr

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This Gadget 360 article is chock full of fun facts about filesharing. Did you know you can even use Google Maps to share out links to copyrighted files? I never thought of doing it that way. Not that I would ever think about doing it any way else, of course.


Google Drive seems most popular among such users, with nearly five thousand DMCA takedown requests filed by Hollywood studios and other copyright holders just last month. Each DMCA requests had listed a few hundred Google Drive links that the content owners wanted pulled.
 
Thats interesting, considering that in my tin foil covered head, all 3 letters agencies have direct access to anything google.
 
Interesting. Clearly those folks are doing it for explicit illegal filesharing, but I hate to see some idiotic blanket policy that takes out legit uses. These days, "cloud storage" is my storage...
 
Google drive is pretty great for screenshots with google sheet for group QA.
 
5000 takedown notices last month? not per minute? bah, we don't have a problem yet
 
I read an article about how pedos were embedding links to CP in the source code of image files of completely innocuous things and spreading them that way. Scary to think what back doors to depravity may be just sitting in your browser cache.
 
Crosshairs said:
Mega is alive and well...:)
Click to expand...

Yep, and 50Gb free. They also supposedly do encryption before files leave your system (stored as encrypted on the server), unlike some other companies. I think it's why there is that extra step when you download something from MEGA with a browser, you see it "transfer" and then it pops up in the download tray - in-between is the local decryption.

But again, Cloud storage should not be used as a replacement for local storage. It should be used as a sync/off-site backup. People storing files just purely in the cloud are asking for data loss.
 
But mega now has a stupid 5GB download cap every 6 hours.

Doesn't google drive have a bandwidth limit? I would think they're smart enough to throttle a download if they see a ton of people downloading a movie
 
Well, I can tell you that AWS is a haven for hacking command servers.

My company has some AWS systems, and one is specifically for monitoring the rest of them to make sure they are up, and to alert me if any of them go down. Well, they're being vulnerability scanned dozens of times per hour lately, so I hooked into our monitoring VM to run wireshark to find out who is doing the scanning. Not really surprising that each and every scan has an AWS IP address. Hackers are using AWS VMs to scan and hack others in AWS, and then spread. I counted over 100 different IPs, all within the AWS range, now scanning our servers. I know our servers aren't doing that because I have prevention in place (including completely closing off the firewall on all ports except what it is specifically supposed to be doing and remote desktop only from designated IP addresses for administration. Thankfully, we're getting away from AWS very soon. The neighborhood has gone downhill too much lately.
 
Good. Kickass has become such a malware-clickfest-popup POS. I welcome our new Googledrive masters.
 
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