Isn't DMCA US only law, thereby having no legal effect whatsoever in the EU?

Yes, but DMCA is in affect for US based users on either end. If the "sender" is in the EU and the "receiver" is in the US, DMCA is still valid. Same going the other way. It's much easier for DropBox to just comply worldwide than to worry about what country every user is in. EU has their own copyright laws anyway. Dropbox also has 2 physical locations in the US and thus has to comply with US law or risk those offices getting ransacked by the FBI.....and we all know how much the FBI likes to perform "search and seizure" operations.

Easily defeatable if you were bothered about it. Its what all file hosting sites have been doing for a long time.

What's the point? The only people actually worried by this, are those that know they're illegally sharing copyrighted files....and most of those people won't be using Dropbox anyway.

What's the point? The only people actually worried by this, are those that know they're illegally sharing copyrighted files....and most of those people won't be using Dropbox anyway.

You would be surprised. Many cracked APKs I've seen being shared were hosted on Dropbox. Applications that cost a couple bucks or so, too, seriously. After a $700 phone, people would be using cracked APKs out of all pirated software.

What happens when you upload encrypted files to DropBox?.. are they double encrypted? I've uploaded encrypted files to my Mediafire account before, and they all became corrupt.

What happens when you upload encrypted files to DropBox?.. are they double encrypted? I've uploaded encrypted files to my Mediafire account before, and they all became corrupt.

Presumably yeah, since they're not actually scanning the file they wouldn't know it's encrypted anyway and would just go ahead and encrypt it again.

You can use AESCRYPT to encrypt the content of your file. Rename it, and supply the password to whosoever needs it. That's simple, not much dropbox can do. File Encryption System is your best friend, use it. Learn how to use PGP as well. I host all of sensitive information via Google Drive encrypted with BoxCryptor using AES256. So if Google wants to see what's inside my "Drive" then they're **** of out luck. What's nice about Boxcryptor is that they're located in EU. So they're not under US jurisdiction. Boxcryptor supports the follow cloud services: Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box, and other providers as well. You can see the listing of supported cloud base services on this website: https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/provider For more information: https://www.boxcryptor.com/ http://www.aescrypt.com/ http://www.truecrypt.org/ L2Protectyourself. Truly yours, Shade.

I store some sensitive data @ Dropbox and Copy, however not as raw files, but inside a TrueCrypt volume. You can make such volume inside synced folder or elsewhere and move it to synced folder, then mount it, use it as a regular "USB Drive", dismount. Just make sure, you go to Menu -> Settings -> Preferences -> Windows groupbox -> uncheck Preserve modification timestamp of file containers. By default, TrueCrypt keeps the old modification time, so it's more difficult to guess which files are TC volumes. However I had some issues with various syncing programs if this option was enabled, and only DropBox worked fine. Perhaps it changed since I tried, but it's a thing to be concerned about, especially in case of sync conflicts. Anyway, be it DropBox, Copy, Google Drive, OneDrive - they upload files in blocks, and if only a few blocks of a big file change, only they are uploaded. Just after DropBox was launched, it had some issues with it, but it works fine now. Thanks to that you can make a file-based TrueCrypt Volume, store sensitive data there (use a password that is easy to remember, but hard to crack; eventually you can give it to someone who you trust), let it perform full sync for the first time, and then further syncs will be pretty fast unless you change a lot. Just remember that file sync services don't know what's inside and TC free space is encrypted too. So if you change a lot inside such volume, and even clean up after these changes, there will be quite a lot of stuff to sync.

I store some sensitive data @ Dropbox and Copy, however not as raw files, but inside a TrueCrypt volume. You can make such volume inside synced folder or elsewhere and move it to synced folder, then mount it, use it as a regular "USB Drive", dismount. Just make sure, you go to Menu -> Settings -> Preferences -> Windows groupbox -> uncheck Preserve modification timestamp of file containers. By default, TrueCrypt keeps the old modification time, so it's more difficult to guess which files are TC volumes. However I had some issues with various syncing programs if this option was enabled, and only DropBox worked fine. Perhaps it changed since I tried, but it's a thing to be concerned about, especially in case of sync conflicts. Anyway, be it DropBox, Copy, Google Drive, OneDrive - they upload files in blocks, and if only a few blocks of a big file change, only they are uploaded. Just after DropBox was launched, it had some issues with it, but it works fine now. Thanks to that you can make a file-based TrueCrypt Volume, store sensitive data there (use a password that is easy to remember, but hard to crack; eventually you can give it to someone who you trust), let it perform full sync for the first time, and then further syncs will be pretty fast unless you change a lot. Just remember that file sync services don't know what's inside and TC free space is encrypted too. So if you change a lot inside such volume, and even clean up after these changes, there will be quite a lot of stuff to sync.

Boxcryptor works beautifully (they use AES256 which is more than enough). What you're saying is that TrueCrypt can sync to any cloud services? If that's true then how do I enable this such feature in TrueCrypt? Let me know.