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it's nothing more than slave labor. they want you to work for free to make themselves rich.

Yeah, you basically can't use it to send any work product to the company contracting you.

i always uploaded encrypted files, anyway... but yes, f*k them

Man this is how I’m finding out.

Horrifying. Does anyone know if Google Drive or OneDrive have a similar clause

Yes, I've seen this. It's good at covering "normal" TOS boilerplate. But the WeTransfer changes go beyond "normal" in multiple places, IMHO.

Don’t miss the FedEx pickup time tho.

Condi Rice was on their board, last I heard, so...

I use labs for a lot of complex processing that just drop stuff in there. There’s a time bomb right there.

I've been starting the process of off-lining all of my work for the last few months. Setting up something like Unraid to store all your data is fairly easy, then from there you can just give people direct download links that don't have to go through a 3rd party.

Butlerian Jihadist

Wow

IMPORTANT UPDATE: @dylanreeve.com has noticed that the language including the "machine learning" and "publicly display" phrases are NOT in the US TOS - just in the TOS for folks OUTSIDE of the US. See below for a link to the US TOS. bsky.app/profile/dyla...

Dropbox has not been cool to me so I replaced with MEGA, but I did use Mystral (open source replacement Dropbox client) on someone else’s account and it was great, like the OG app was.

Update amended terms in this article. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yuck. Thanks for the info - how disappointing

Nightmare. How to transfer large files to client then? !!

Damn. We’ve used it in the past for our tiny (but huge files!) indie films. Guess we’ll go back to 2T drives and shipping. (Thankfully 2T drives are smaller than they used to be!!) Thanks for this heads up!!

Time to dust off my ftp passwords.

Limited to my experience in marketing, but every big corporation has a set of rules around file transfer that generally are a nightmare for massive files like rough cuts of film that need fast approval. EVERY client I've ever had used some sort of workaround at some point.

It's accurate.

Just checked the terms in my acct. They match. Just deleted everything in there and turned off renewal. Thanks for sharing this Greg. A real issue for my work.

Wow! I switched to sync.com when your president started threatening to annex my home and country. Even more glad I did now.