File Storage And Piracy Issues? 18
Matt Tesch asks: "A couple of my friends and I thought it would be great to offer a free Web based file storage site built on Linux, MySQL and other open source software. Being able to offer it for free wouldn't be possible if we were confronted with licensing fees for our server software. The only problem is that our site, Globedesk.com quickly became home to a lot of software pirates. We now see one clear advantage of charging money for our service is that is would greatly reduce these abuses, as we would be able to verify names and addresses of our members. How can a business pass their savings on open source software on to the consumer and keep illegal abuse to a minimum?"
Ads? (Score:1)
Many
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If my facts are wrong then tell me. I don't mind.
a few sugestions (Score:2)
age verification services (Score:1)
Also I don't know whether that would let you allow people under the age of majority use your service or not. Maybe restricting your service to those over the age of 16, or 18, or whatever it is in the States (I'm just assuming you are an American company) would lend some legal weight to your terms of service, since then those not able to be bound by contracts could be excluded.
Lawyer?? (Score:3)
Also another good idea is to have a user aggenment that has to agreed something along the lines of
By useing this service I agree to be bound by these terms, if you disagree discontinue use Immeatly and contact us to have your account deactivated. Only data that you are the copyright owner of or have written permission from the copyright owner, by be stored on this service. If you are belived to be doing other wise your account will be deactivated and your inforation will be turned over to the proper athorites.
Althought with you will need someway to verify who is so that you will have the proper inforation to give to the proper authorites
Look at existing services (Score:1)
www.juston.com [juston.com]
www.idrive.com [idrive.com]
www.freespace.com [freespace.com]
credit card ID verification (Score:1)
Would *you* offer up credit card info for a "free" services? Not me.
Re:a few sugestions (Score:1)
We are seeing related issues at diskwise.com [diskwise.com]
(I might post more info in another message)
Re:Lawyer?? (Score:1)
Re:Look at existing services (Score:2)
All of those sites have lots of MP3's traded on them. They just shut them down once discovered.
It doesn't help the real problem of preventing users from doing this.
Aaron "PooF" Matthews
Re:Lawyer?? (Score:1)
No it doesn't (Score:1)
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"I already have all the latest software."
Re:No it doesn't (Score:1)
Re:Look at existing services (Score:1)
I think the real problem is not preventing users from doing this. The real problem is liability. If he has a good eula and disclaimer, he should be legally covered such that users who insist on storing warez are on their own, his company is not liable.
CC verification (Score:2)
//rdj
one login per account at a time (Score:1)
Allow linking of like 3 accounts for file sharing but only
one login per account at a time.
and like the post says above put
disclaimers all over the place to cya.
If someone wants more linked accounts charge a one time fee
for setting it up
just enuff to cover expences of setting it up say $15
Re:No it doesn't (Score:1)
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"I already have all the latest software."
Re:No it doesn't (Score:1)
Re:No it doesn't (Score:1)
Anyway, I'm not sure what you expect when you use these online hard-drive services anyway. I'd encrypt everything I didn't want people to see, or I would just plain keep it on my hard drive.
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"I already have all the latest software."