The young service Boxopus is shutting down at its debut: the decision was made by Dropbox to avert the risk of piracy.
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Among cloud hosting services, Dropbox continues to dominate, despite the arrival of other potentially threatening competitors that in reality have yet to win the hearts of internet users.
Precisely to avoid losing fame and credibility, Dropbox has decided to shut down Boxopus, a service that allows downloading torrent files, directing them straight to one’s Dropbox account.
A simple idea, particularly appreciated by users who quickly helped achieve remarkable subscription numbers.
Equally appreciated was the recognition of Boxopus by major P2P services: it is no coincidence that within some of the most famous file-sharing platforms, Boxopus is supported for the download of torrent files.
However, Dropbox has decided to shut down Boxopus, imposing a ban on the application API: the risk for the storage service’s management is being accused of facilitating piracy.
Dropbox therefore sent an email to the Boxopus staff announcing the ban and explaining that “Violating copyright is against our terms of service“.
A statement that amuses many outside observers, well aware that even through Dropbox thousands of files, although copyrighted, but of questionable origin, circulate daily, so to speak.
In any case, the short and young existence of Boxopus on Dropbox has already ended, a few hours after its appreciated debut.
It is not clear at the moment if the service will continue to exist anyway and, if so, in what new form it will present itself.
A new alliance with competing services to Dropbox would probably not even be ruled out: who will want to risk falling into the treacherous clutches of possible piracy?
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