How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)...

After a DMCA complaint is verified by Dropbox’s legal team, Dropbox adds that file’s hash to a big blacklist of hashes known to be those corresponding to files they can’t legally allow to be shared. When you share a link to a file, it checks that file’s hash against the blacklist. - Greg Kumparak, TechCrunch

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