Dropbox Account Banned
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I made the stupid mistake of uploading around 1.5 TB of torrents from this site to dropbox, mostly unencrypted. Just recently, my account was banned with no notification or warning. While I'm aware that it could just be because it detected pirated content, I have a more worrying concern.
I'm in the habit of downloading terabytes of data from this site (I'm well aware that it's a problem), and due to the volume I don't check through or even look at a lot of the files, I just store them somewhere with the vague idea that I'll sort through them eventually. When I was trying to figure out why my account was banned, I came across articles that talked about Dropbox reporting illegal content to the police if they detect it, which led to the fear that I may have downloaded something more egregious than possibly pirated porn, which I don't think would be lawsuit worthy.
Basically, I'm asking other users what the chances are that I may have accidentally downloaded illegal content, specifically underage content. I'm in my early 20s, so I do tend to look for pornstars closer in age to me, but I would never knowingly or willingly download or look at anything of that type. I'm aware that the site forbids and deletes that sort of content, but I want other user's opinions on the possibility of undetected illegal content, specifically in the "baited guys" genre of torrents. I've downloaded a few of those, and some of them look concerningly young - I've even felt uncomfortable enough to delete some collections because they looked young. Keep in mind I'm not great at guessing ages, but the fear remains.
I would appreciate any advice you can give, I want to know whether to prepare for the worst.
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There is an international database of child pornography that all the big tech firms signed up to, to cross-reference uploads.
Likewise, many of them also agreed to scan for piracy, but this tends to be music, TV, games, and mainstream movies.
Many services ban porn no matter what and scan for that.
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To prevent consequences and suspicious activities concerning this matter, you should ask consent, write the company [dropbox] to purge/remove and delete all the file content from the site server and also all the file content you downloaded and illegally shared online immediately [asap] ...
Regardless, Be aware of any unforeseen circumstances ...
Do a web search on copyright and pirated content details ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+to+do+if+you+get+caught+downloading+and+illegally+shared+copyright+and+pirated+content&rlz=1C1OKWM_enUS993US993&oq=what+to+do+if+you+get+caught+downloading+and+illegally+shared+copyright+and+pirated+content&aqs=chrome..69i57.32187j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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@AnonymousXII As someone with about 12 TB of adult material, I might advise that once you're past this Dropbox issue, consider keeping your porn on External Hard Drives.
The cost for these book-sized devices is coming down, while the storage capacity is going up. A 5 TB EHD can run about $100 on sale, and I recently saw a great deal on 18 TB models at BestBuy.
At any capacity, these drives will one day break -- and repair/recovery is obscenely expensive -- so I would buy a second drive to back-up your treasures.
The key advantage, as you've learned with some Dropbox distress, is that your porn -- even if not yet reviewed -- stays with you, and you alone. As raph and john underlined, the cloud has watchers.
Good luck going forward.
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@AnonymousXII I had this issue in the past. So that's why I thought about setting up my own cloud storage server aka NAS. Everything stays with me! and no one knows what I have.
