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Go to Dropload and drop a load of bites with an email address, and it sends an email to the recipient to come pick up the load. Free and free of the limitations of email servers.
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This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours only) and you can email the link ... [Read More]
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» Another Cool, Useful Site: Dropload.com from Sirsha Development Resources Blog
This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours only) and you can email the link ... [Read More]
Comments (16)
Too bad you can't dropload any Creative Commons work since the Acceptable Use states:
"Remember that you are using our server to drop files off for your friends, so we ask that you store things we wouldn't mind storing for you. Things we would not appreciate: child porn or copyrighted materials of any sort. "
http://dropload.com/about.php
It's worse than that, of course, for it also prohibits me sending any programs I develop or any other original creative work of my own, like family videos or photograph collections. Someone seems to have forgotten that everything we do today is copyrighted. Nice concept, provided you're willing to use it only to transfer works which are in the public domain or can't be copyrighted, or are willing to ignore the acceptable use policy.
Honestly I just wanted to CMA the night of releasing the thing. I'm no laywer, just a programmer who wanted to make something useful.
If someone has a better way of phrasing that, I'd appreciate it.
ps, if it wasn't clear I wrote dropload.
I guess you'd say works the person doing the dropping off does not have the right to redistribute (in less clunky wording).
Andre changed the About page to read "copyrighted materials that you aren't permitted to share in this manner." No need to be paranoid.
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Andre, and good code you did write. Re the legal advice you're purporting to give, I'd just drop it completely. Does Microsoft instruct users about copyright law when it gives them an email client? That's what you've built -- a general purpose device for moving large chunks of bites. As you don't make the content available to others generally, I wouldn't worry about teaching the world about the law. But again, thanks for the great code.
Thanks for that much improved policy - it's good to know that you didn't really intend to limit it so tightly!
Andre, I don't understand why you would need to say anything like what you're trying to say.
It's not as if people somehow gain the right to distribute the copyrighted works of others without a license just because you didn't tell them otherwise.
Thank you, Andre! Now I have a place to point people to when they hit one of my pet peeves. Right after I make them repeat the mantra 'Email is not a file transfer protocol', I'll send them to your site!
Right on PJ. Thanks for the insightful comment.
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Andre, I have dreamed of something this basic and simple for years. Those of us who follow copyright issues that tend to get our panties in a wad over such seemingly unimportant issues as how a disclaimer is worded are jaded for a reason, and that reason is the abuse of the true intention of copyright laws by the (often corporate) oligopolists that would limit freedom of the exchange of ideas in favor of the almighty $$$.
Dropload is an EXCELLENT idea, I hope it works as well as it seems and I wish you much sucsess! (Just don't DRM it up or do anything spammy with it! Keep it "open" and free and I assure you, I will donate funds and encourage others to do so as well.)
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