If you're still wearing your tinfoil hat over Dropbox updating their TOS to protect the way their service works, use something like this: http://lifehacker.com/5816937/boxcryptor-encrypts-files-on-the-fly-on-windows-accessible-on-maclinux-works-great-with-dropbox
and that's why I don't use services like dropbox :( Although I'd love to have a good script for dropbox like sharing which I can run on my own webspace so I can send stuff to other people.
r_fletch_r, I think they wanted people to be aware that if a user shares copyrighted material, the user is legally responsible in the case the copyright holder takes legal action, and not Dropbox. But their wording was a little confusing at first.
ah i use it for sharing screenshots with people im working with and for quickly linking images to fourm posts, so i don't really care, anything i do beyond that i use my own server for. and a lot of the agreement is similar to what you get with gmail and gdocs. mostly just dropbox protecting them-selfs against users…
~ You guys need to relax. They're not trying to make money off of people's stuff. They're just lawfully protecting themselves. Nobody's going to see your "Awsum 3D" and then try to make money out of it. You're all being ridiculous. Dropbox is just a service like it was before. It's just protecting its ass with this…
I thing this is mostly done for a technical legal reason, the same agreement has to be accepted on shapeway to make them able to print your model in 3D, even if it's only for you. I guess dropbox need the same kind of "permission" to be able to manipulate your files to create a public link. Now that said, I could be…