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Dropbox has this feature that lets you vote on their website for changes you want to see happen. Accepting bitcoin is about to make the all time most popular request page and already has 29,000 50,000 100,000 141,000 upvotes. Its worth mentioning that the other most popular request took 4 years to get there where as bitcoin has done it in less than a week (thanks reddit) Do you think it's likely dropbox adopts it (as theyve done to many popular request)? and if so, what do you think the effect on bitcoin price and economy will be?

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/6425/buy-storage-with-bitcoin-e-currency


Only 16,000 votes from 2nd place! Get out there and let your voice be heard!!!!!!!

EDIT: now 51,000
EDIT: now 100,000
EDIT: now 140,000

+1

About another 1k votes and it'll hit the popular page.

Well I don't have an account there so I will give this a supportive bump instead  8)

Accounts are free, so you should definitely register and vote!

There's a BTC/LTC/PPC/FTC RAFFLE I've set up for those who voted: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194780.60 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194780.60) - go vote here (https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/6425/buy-storage-with-bitcoin-e-currency) and then enter your address in the thread to win! :)

+1

Over 30k now..

Added my 6 votes! Over 32k

This would be very good for bitcoin

At the same time, bitcoiners might look like relentless dogmatics.

See this other thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194780). I would love to pay for my GBs in BTC :-)

another 6 votes from me ;D

Bitcoin just made All time most popular page... IMO if dropbox adopts bitcoin your going to see a ton of news, press, an increase in price, more press, and then more merchants.. rince and repeat.

Adding my 6 votes to the frenzy !

I don't think many people actually pay for extra storage on dropbox, but it's like the okcupid deal - more exposure and proof btc is actually useful.

It is also the newest suggestion of all the suggestions on the all time most popular first page. This is from 2011, whereas all the others are from 2009.

this is great news and should be recognized soon.

even if its perceived as an relentless pursuit of interest by BTC nerds, it still
shows significance by just gathering so many votes.

Wow this is great timing haha! I was going to upgrade my Dropbox some time next week. I'll most certainly wait till Bitcoin is accepted (If it goes through..) in order to support their decision :)

Put my vote in, the more services and websites accepting bitcoin the better.

Alright then helps to make this a reality + 6 Bump goes to other thread :)

Voted!

Dropbox is such a huge part of my software infrastructure, and my life would be considerably harder without it. I would love to see them accept bitcoin.

voted and commented  :D

Gave them my 6 votes. Everyone here ought to do the same. Let's do this guys :)

+6

+9 votes

Added my six grains of sand.  50594.

If we can make this #1 all time request I think theyll do it... if you own bitcoins you need to set up an account and vote cause it could serious increase the value of your holdings.. each account (which are free) gets 6 votes a month. Need another 120,000 votes to get it

Don't make fake accounts though cause they'll be able to tell and it will discredit all the real request.

This.

Nice idea

+6

Such community efforts is exactly what bitcoin needs. Just gave my vote and everyone here should do the same.

With this much support it would be foolish of them not to accept bitcoins.

If I understand correctly they could accomplish this rather easily if they wanted, just have bitpay handle the btc transactions and hand dropbox the fiat $$$. Everyone is happy?

I don't see this as a real long-term solution. The better option would be to accept Bitcoins as they are.

It's a good compromise, but nothing more.

If Dropbox chooses their own implementation of Bitcoin acceptance:

4th most popular dropbox vote of all time!  ;D

94k.....

All others are from 2009 and could be voted multiple times for.
The Bitcoin vote is like a rocket, keep it fueled ^^

Hate to say this but just because a bunch of people vote for it doesn't mean they will begin to accept bitcoin. It might not make financial sense for them to do so right now.

This is too ridiculous. Too many people are considering paying with their coins for that. It would also provide a lot of hype for Dropbox in a time where they are facing a lot of other businesses offering the same thing.

Doesn't make financial sense?  It would be incredibly easy to add a BitPay or Coinbase option.

I'm surprised most sites don't do this.

From a business perspective I see this as a low risk way to get to the native acceptance. Yes they could probably do their own e-commerce thing to accept it, but I would be willing to be the investment to do that is much much higher then adding another 'merchant account' to the existing solution.

Then later on one can evaluate if it makes business sense to remove that merchant and go 'native'.
 

I agree with you on this. What I am afraid of is that if Bitpay fails down the road they would take a lot of confidence of the bitcoin with them in the grave. We need more native acceptance in the long run, a single point of failure is never a good idea.

I don't think imminent, but very possible. Let's hope!

ok, +6

+6

94,997...+6  :)

I seriously wonder how dropbox will react. They can't possibly ignore this vote :).

95045 and counting.  ;)

100,000 soon, no reason for drop box to ignore anymore.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/6425/buy-storage-with-bitcoin-e-currency

99643 votes!!!

Tell your friends and family!

Crazy support. Grats on 100k guys!

If I wanted to manipulate the price, looking for feature requests on products like Dropbox and then promoting them in Bitcoin communities/forums would be a good way to go about it... ;)

Just voted +6 - 100182

wow that was fast!! I really hope they start accepting btc

We did it:

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/6425/buy-storage-with-bitcoin-e-currency

I see strong support forming at the 100.000 level!

17566 More votes to go to become third in position!

GOGOGO Vote!

100000/6=16.666,66
About 2 accounts per user that voted
8.333,33
Given that really only one in 20 Might actually pay....

You think that they will even consider calling a lawyer
to figure out the legal for "mear" 420 new paying customers?

Since it make good press.... I think they will

Your estimation seems correct, yet one thing I don't understand is this:
About 2 accounts per user that voted

Do you assume everyone has multiple accounts? I think most of them actually only have one.
Also some people might have forgotten about the 6 votes, making an average of 5 votes per user more logical.

Agree. Plus residual..

Yep... why the hell would you want 2 different dropbox accounts?  You can restrict syncing to certain folders if you don't want to sync everything on every device.

I voted +6 about 4 weeks ago and today I logged in and found out I had received 6 more votes. +12

106134, Allmost third in position!

+6  8)

Guys, After the poll, let's also reply to this topic:

https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353

Let Dropbox know!

I have been over pessemistic on purpous so one comes out of my little argument with *its actually better than that* attitude.
I personally do not have 2 different accounts and I know noone that does. I just felt like pointing out that the people at dropbox
are very well aware that they are being gamed.
I bet the first thing they did was check if it was 4chan's army at work....

I'm pretty sure every single issue that is voted on on the dropbox site is gamed the same way, so it's not really a point against bitcoin.

+1

Wow, I can remember when this was struggling to get votes, now look at it.

It's really really high in the list, hopefully bitcoin will be implemented by the end of the week (wishful thinking?).

adoption not imminent. It's also the lowest comment count item for anything above 40k votes. Considering each person has 6 votes, that's only 18k voters. Most vote just to try to push price of their investment up. Assuming they even get 5% of those people as new customers because of the change, that's still only $100k for the next year. Not worth it at this point.

I just registered my vote. I don't use dropbox much, or would pay for an upgrade but I'd definitely like to see more online businesses like them accept bitcoin.

2 days of programmer time isn't worth $100k?

not even 2 days, just a phone call to bitpay

I was being generous, but yeah.... bitpay is stupid simple to work with.  I've coded for paypal, google wallet, dwolla, and a few small CC processing companies.  Bitpay covers all the bases from tight custom integration to simple click to buy buttons far better than any other single entity.  Dropbox would probably want tight integration with their existing accounting systems though so it may require a little custom code.

bumped.

There is no "after poll"

Great work DavidBal. They must cave in soon!

I think there's more to risk thank 2 days of programmer time.

I think the moon is made of cheese.

See, I can make statements without any backing too.

What kind of risks are you talking about?  I'm not sure I agree there's $100k in it for them, but if there is they would be stupid to ignore it.  There is no technical or economical reason to not do it even for $1000.

I've not used dropbox, but will check it out.  Let's get them some more votes.

Bump!

Don't forget to reply here: https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353

Just stating, that I haven't used dropbox before, registered to give my couple of votes, because I like to help Bitcoin adoption in any small way I can. Then I looked around and decided that I would actually pay some BTC to dropbox for giving me lots of GB of storage space I can access from anywhere. Go Dropbox!

+1

+12 , you get 6 new votes in 4 weeks!

Only 12K More Votes needed to push it to third place.

voted with 10 votes!

Did you think I forgot? Vote this MOFO UP!

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/6425/buy-storage-with-bitcoin-e-currency
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353

+1

voted and left a comment

We should continue giving votes until it is adopted. I use my votes only for bitcoin. If we come on the first place then they will surely adopt. The other requests are also more difficult to implement.

I'm still pissed at Dropbox for destroying Audiogalaxy. But I voted for Bitcoin.

+1

You got my vote.

Spread the word, until where #1!

You'd think they'd have to do it to compete against mega.co.nz

Remember Remember!

+6 votes from me too :)

Cheers

got my votes

They will likely perceive this as taking a huge risk.  I think they are very likely see the risk as much greater than any potential reward.

Any move in business operations involves potential risks and profits. I fail to see how accepting Bitcoin would be a "huge risk",  it's not like if they were starting an exchange, and Bitcoin accepting businesses are not even targeted by FinCEN.

The only problems they may run into if further regulations develop over Bitcoin is accounting (thinking taxation) issues, but I think at least the US government is currently busy enough trying to pass taxation on good ol' dollars first :-)

Voted  ;D

What risk is that, exactly, if they use a Bitcoin payment provider (such as coinbase or bitpay) and receive the payments directly in Euros? (or Yens or Dollars or Rupees or whatever floats their boat)

voted  :)

voted  ;D and left a comment.

Things like this are what will catapult BTC to the top, along with those before who adopted early like Wordpress  8) 8)

Forbes reckons Dropbox valuation at 4b $, with $400m yearly revenue.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/02/07/why-is-dropbox-worth-more-than-4-billion/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/02/07/why-is-dropbox-worth-more-than-4-billion/)

Spotify also has a bitcoin vote and it already got a reply, damn the guys at dropbox are slackers. Time to bring the heat guys, vote and post!

Can someone open a Dropbox support ticket and (nicely) ask about Bitcoin adoption? I did that before the vote was popular, and support replied with link to Votebox. Now that it's on the top, what would their answer be?

Bump!

maybe we should ask box.com

If drop box doesn't want to accept..the business should go elsewhere

Maybe, by the way don't forget to renew your votes guys, you get new votes every 30 days. Let's push this one to the top!

Voted

Voted! Let's get it to #1!!!

Almost third place! Go Go Go

Shameless Bump

have made a total of +12 votes plus 2 comments  ;D

Hero! Don't Forget:
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353

Just contributed to that too, thx :)

Don't forget spotify also! http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Spotify-should-accept-bitcoin/idi-p/313120

Amazing that Spotify already replied while dropbox is playing the /ignore game...

+6 votes from me, plus comment!  8)

Let's keep this thing going!

Almost there!!!

It will not change anything.
If they have not yet responded, they will not react.

But keep voting.
I voted 12 times.

New votes incoming in some days :)

Well the spotify answer was  /ignore as well.

Atleast they took the effort to reply /ignore :).

5 days until you get another vote :(

Andy B

added 6 votes. GL

6 votes added

+6

Now at 108886 votes

Don't give up! A lot of you should be getting new votes soon!

Signed over all my 6 votes to this.

+6 !

Go Go Go!

Much needed bump!

Yessss keep on going guys! I'm using all my votes for this.

It's been about a month ago since the last mass vote, go crazy people!

One hundred thousand votes and they still haven't done it. Do you think maybe they aren't going to do it no matter what?

I hope not. Remember the "mintchip challenge"? they asked what the best use for mintchip digital currency was and people voter for using it to buy bitcoins. They threw out that winning choice and picked their own contest "winner".

That's exactly what I was thinking and the case I was thinking of.

Yes but in all honesty how many people will actually pay with BTC? Based on my observations it costs more for businesses to accept Bitcoins than they make off it.

Seriously did not know that guess that Canada was aware of bitcoins for a while

More votes please!

???

How so?

Time to put in another effort guys! Let's Go Go Go!

Don't forget to also reply to this topic: https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353

6 more votes! :P

Andy B

fresh votes are here :3

+6 again

Mayonnaise!

Bump.
New month, 6 new votes for all.
We should be able to get this to the #1 most popular slot.

I almost forgot! 6 more votes

+6  :)

+6

We can make it to the first place!

5 of those votes are mine! :D

Voted! (6 times  8) )

Is voting still necessary? We are wel over the 100,000 votes already.

As long as it's not on #1, or actually: as long as it's not implemented yet, yes it's still necessary.

just voted 12 times, wooh

I can't believe you people actually use or care about Dropbox.  They are signing on with the NSA to assist in eavesdropping.  If they take bitcoin directly, then they'll happily pass along your bitcoin sending addresses too.  SpiderOak is a better choice as the data is encrypted before it leaves your machine.

Source on Dropbox working with NSA?

+1'd  :)

Just voted... ;)

Top secret PRISM documents which were leaked by a whistleblower.

Google denies their involvement and knowledge of PRISM. If he's telling the truth, that certainly lowers the credibility of the leak and increases the chances that other companies were not contacted regarding this as well.


http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html

edit: Facebook denies as well.

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631

Actually, companies are allowed to lie for national security purposes.

US officials have pretty much admitted PRISM with Obama saying they have achieved the "balance" between national security and privacy. If PRISM was false, they would go "Nup, that's made up." rather than defending it.

PRISM might not actually be in full effect yet though. I'm not saying that they weren't planning on approaching companies like Facebook and Google.

edit : meant to say full effect

PRISM has been in effect since 2007. Fiber optic splitting has been in effect after 9/11. ECHELON has been active since the 1990s.

Sorry, meant to say full effect. (edited to clarify) If the leak claims that specific companies are not involved with PRISM then I believe it is reasonable to question the accuracy of the leak and to wonder at exactly what scope PRISM is operating.

Look folks, regardless of how much Dropbox is cooperating with the NSA at this point, their service is clearly insecure.  People have had their (unencrypted) bitcoin wallets emptied after saving them on Dropbox.  You have to assume that if someone could compromise your security then they will at some point.  That's why everything leaving your machine should be encrypted, and you shouldn't use sites that record IP addresses (use Tor or a VPN as necessary).

Recommended reading of the actual leaks:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story_3.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-such-agency-spies-on-the-communications-of-the-world/2013/06/06/5bcd46a6-ceb9-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html



Tell me if this isn't in full effect ::)

I have already stated that unless Google and Facebook are giving blatant lies that PRISM is likely not in full effect.

Those are articles, not the actual leak.
Here are the leaked slides. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/images/prism-slide-5.jpg

Serious? Link?

+6'ed.

+6 voted

So, Google hasn't heard of Prism, eh!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newboundary.prismmobile

Hmmm. How is it possible that I have heard of the PRISM software before, but Google has not?

I find this very hard to believe. I might have to change my voting to:
Make dropbox secure from any entity that might twist your little pencil arm until you squeal the names of your trusting users.

Most popular Dropbox requests:

#1: 176884 (watch any folder)
#2: 154061 (sharing permissions)
#3: 119225 (better prices)
#4: 113258 (accept Bitcoin as payment)

This was a great initiative. We're now beyond the one-month mark, and initial voters haven't flocked back to re-vote.  We're close.
 
What if we renamed this thread title:

Voted this month? 5,967 Votes Remain until Bitcoin is #3 Dropbox Request Ever!

Update the count as appropriate, moving to #2, #1. The title at least implies that, with Dropbox, voting is not a one-time thing. 

I've been a dropbox user for awhile, and was not aware of the renewed votes per month.  I think it's significant enough to this effort, it may be worth being the very first thing stated in this thread. "We can vote again? Shoot, I better do that."

We've got the people to make this the #1 request. Hell, we could theoretically do it this month.

Accepting bitcoin as payment should be able to stand on its own merits, not because of an obvious campaign ramp

Well, there's "should", and then there's the real world :D Campaigns, awareness, and promotions are all a necessary evil.

I see you have your Bitcoin address in the sig. Shouldn't donating bitcoins to you be able to stand on its own merits? ;)

I agree. But the target is the dropbox team, not a general promotion for the public. It's just that they might continue to ignore something which is ramped, and they feel has not got grassroots support.
I like the whole initiative, and hope it succeeds.

Bump, most people should be able to vote again.

Looks to me like Dropbox is purposely avoiding adding a Bitcoin option. Any business receiving more than a handful of requests to give them money would jump on the chance for additional revenue unless .....

just a matter of time imho

That sounds kind of scary if you think about it...

Then again... that's how a new paradigm works...

gave all of my 6 votes! and made a comment as well!!!

Let's see how responsive dropbox is to users' request/needs/demands. If they act deaf and dumb, I see a bleak future ahead for dropbox. I hope they listen and act decisively in favor of adopting bitcoin as payment.

If you want to support this thing like a political campaign. Check out this website www.thebitcoinminingoutlet.com were you can buy T-shirts to support the cause it's pretty cool

Just 5,000 votes to hit #3!

Just a friendly reminder - Dropbox allows you to submit six votes per month, not in total.

Added my 6 votes again!

Yes bitcoin adoption iminent!

Yeah, any day now. lol

I voted and commented.awesomeness for dropbox here.

Voted for this, now at 114,263 votes.

I doubt it will even happen. This thread was started about 2 months ago and there still hasn't been any response from Dropbox!

Dropbox, aka NSA cloud, can't accept bitcoin....they have to put an ID to the files.

117496 votes

second place (first place is 119724)

I just added my votes.

voted (again)  8)

Broke through 121k  ;D

just commented again :)

3rd place in most popular

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/all#votebox:popular:0

Add three of my votes (the other 3 went to native FreeBSD support)

I just heard about this and I gave them all 6.  In the mean time, give copy.com (https://copy.com?r=aZ4HBu) a try.  They offer 15GB free, plus if you sign-up through a referral, they give you an additional 5GB.

I already have 40GB through referrals, and I'm not even trying.

My Copy.com Referral Link (https://copy.com?r=aZ4HBu)

FYI, Copy is owned by Barracuda Networks, which is a security company that's been around a while.  I'd trust them as much as I'd trust Dropbox. ;)

voted!

3 days until I have more votes!

Sweet! Just voted... even though I don't pay for my Dropbox (and would never put anything important on it).

This thing is still going on? Ha ha.

Yes.  Clearly Dropbox doesn't give a shit about us.

That's how it seems.

Reoccuring payments are easier/more reliable with other payment protocols.  Bitcoin is great for payments initiated on the buyer-side, but not so great for seller-side initiated payments which are fundamental to subscription services.  We're making progress, but its not there yet.

Good point. They would almost need access to our wallet to process the transaction.

Subscriptions should not be a requirement for using a service, they are supposed to be convenient for the BUYER.  If I don't pay my electric bill, they turn it off, Dropbox could do the same until I pay up.

It's tough to "turn off" data storage.  How long should they keep the data before deleting it?  What happens if I forget to manually pay the bill and lose something really important?

Having automatic payments setup for the services I subscribe to IS convenient for the buyer....no?

Recurring payments in general are convenient for the buyer but "pulling" the money is mostly convenient for the seller. Recurring payments for services no longer used accounts for a large portion of any subscription based services revenue.  People forget to turn off the billing when they stop using a service.

Buyers can set up recurring payments through Bill Pay at their bank just as easily to "push" money to services they use.  Perhaps there is, or should be, a similar Bitcoin service to send payments to an address periodically.

As far as how long they should keep your data, that should be laid out in the terms of service.  If you don't pay and lose your data, that's on you.  This could happen anyway if your credit card is declined for some reason.

There isn't anyone left that really believes this is going to happen, right?

done vote

Meh they may be ignoring it but it's a sore thumb that sticks out and will make people look :)

Then again maybe they are just waiting on NSA approval
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

"The NSA document indicates that it is planning to add Dropbox as a PRISM provider. The agency also seeks, in its words, to "expand collection services from existing providers."

Now I think its a game to see how high it will get, someone reading the list that hasn't heard of Bitcoin will be like, "what is this everyone wants?"

I'm finding it more difficult now to find people that haven't heard about Bitcoin because of all the mainstream media stories in the last year. I'm also finding it more difficult to find anyone willing to try Bitcoin because of all the mainstream media stories in the last year. The small group of people I know that are willing to try it now are the radical ones that would eat a steaming dog turd if you told them it would eliminate the government.

123496 votes.. Most popular in billing section now :)

Quoted to have a good laugh if when it's there.

It will be at least several more months from now, or even several years if the folks at Dropbox are really stupid. But it's going to happen. ← Feel free to quote this too.

Voted - 123530

now hopeing its done and happen soon

Sure and I really believe Dropbox is going to start Audiogalaxy back up any day now.

Oh, I believe in Leprechauns too. lol

Every company that adopts it helps!  :-)     And it is over 141k as of now.  Even if it "only" gets to number one and stays there, the publicity is good.  From my tech friends, many of heard of bitcoin.  From the non-tech people, not many have.

Voted 6x!  ;D

if need can voted more no problem I am always on service  :D

7 votes for them  ;D

Voted and will keep on voting. Thanks everyone who's voting!

Every "bitcoin accepted here" is a big thing at this stage of bitcoin evolution and Dropbox is a very popular service!

KEEP it rocking! Can we pop the next 100k?

141,287 votes!

Let's keep voting guys! We can make it to first place! Remember, you can vote 6 times.

My vote is Vote no. 141,309.

Keep the votes going! We can make it to first place!  :o

Not a long way to go to 2nd place!! 6 votes again! :)

Getting ready to put 3 more votes to it (I split my votes between this and native FreeBSD support).

edit: 4 days until I can vote again, doh.

It is 2nd place now - not sure when it made it, but some time in the last week or so.  ;-)

It's actually not that far off from being #1

170,000+ now

Just added another 6 votes.

177000 votes! We are only 1300 votes from 1st place!

You guys are great! Maybe Dropbox doesn't actually accept bitcoin, but every person checking out the Votebox will see bitcoin on top and maybe check it out :)

Thank you all for voting!!!

Bitcoin surpassed all other feature requests in terms of the number of votes but take a look where the link leads to now.


https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/6425/buy-storage-with-bitcoin-e-currency

Bastards... I'm dropping my dropbox account.

Post in this thread instead

https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353&page=2

They've removed the entire votebox which is a joke.

I've added my comment to that forum topic, I'm not sure they dropped VoteBox because of Bitcoin. But more because overall they ignored most of the high voted items because they didn't want to / couldn't do them.

That's F-ing bull!
Mark my words, I will never pay for dropbox.
Anyone know of a cloud-host that accepts bitcoin? Because dropbox just became myspace.

That wasn't predictable at all. rofl

They disabled that vote box, pricks.
I am not planning to pay for DB, it is quite shit and filled with ads.

There must be someone trying to fill the demand.  Would be nice:

1.  Pay with Bitcoin
2.  Client-side encryption
3.  Same local-copy / server-copy file system that Dropbox uses
4.  iOS / Android apps

Wow.

1. Bitcoin becomes the most voted-for request of all time
2. Dropbox disables voting

It's like real-world politics!

what about mega? they're missing #3 though :<

mega or any other shares like mega! *debrid

I would be more than happy is Bitcoin is more widely used. But I have no plan in paying something to Dropbox, perhaps another alternative?  ;D

I am very disappointed of Dropbox that they removed Votebox as the Bitcoin request came on the 1. place.

What about http://www.opendrive.com (http://www.opendrive.com) ?
They have very good reviews.
They give for 10 $/mo 500Gb, 2 user acc, Webdav in a customized acc.  (13$ unlimited space for 1 acc)
Dropbox gives for the same money(10$) 100 Gb, 1 user acc and NO Webdav, other features like security, share options and easy use are similar.
As I see payed features are much better by Opendrive but free acc is better by Dropbox.
Let us ask Opendrive to accept Bitcoins as payment and if they accept then move there.

Perhaps another competitor will accept bitcoin and put dropbox out of business as bitcoin usage grows.

You guys really need to check out copy.com (see my link in my sig.)

Copy is owned by barracuda networks and for whatever reason, they are building a customer base strictly by word of mouth.

The great news is your free account gets 15GB, sign up through a ref link, you get +5 GB and you get an additional +5 GB for each referral you make and there is no referral cap.

This post was originally about Dropbox accepting bitcoins.  I did send in a support ticket to Copy about accepting Bitcoins, the tech person liked the idea but, of course, had to forward it along to accounting.

That doesn't mean anything but if enough people request bitcoin payments, I think we may have a chance with copy.  I've really been happy with their services.  They seem like a DB clone in all ways, except that they offer more free space.

Give them a try and if you like them, let's see if we can get them to accept bitcoins!

agree. the result of that vote was "not correct" in their view, lets vote agian they think  :D

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For the launch we are running a promotion where the first five users to request trial copies in the main thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320758.0) will get one month's free trial of the software. We are running this offer on the agreement recipients will write a short honest review to the comity sharing their experiences of DataShell. This offer is only open to users with three coins under your username (Full Member) or higher. We love all the community equally, but we also want to make sure the trial accounts go to seasoned users who are likely to comment back to the forum!

DataShell Backup costs 0.30BTC a year. Please email info@datashell.co.uk to place an order.

And yes: it really is unlimited – you can store as much data as you want.

Please visit the main thread for more info. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320758.0)

Been using dropbox for awhile. Well, after this news I started looking for an alternative. My business partner found Bittorrent Sync. Been trying it out. So far = awesome!!! I'm cancelling dropbox right now. I hope they ask why so I can tell them they suck.

If they replaced voting with forum... Ok, let's keep the bitcoin threads on the top:
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=106621
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=9508

We've just extended our offering so you can now purchase a one year license for 40LTC, we'll be reviewing our price point in about four weeks so this is a limited offer. Please email info@datashell.co.uk to place an order.

We now have a shiny new website - DataShell.co.uk (http://www.datashell.co.uk/)!

aww i cant vote.. they took down votebox

"we listen to what you, the customers, want. that is unless what you want is not in line with what WE want."

oh well, they've never seen a dollar from me.. and i have 8GB free from them.

Bump for bittorrent sync. I've been very happy with it as well.

It's not cloud storage but as long as you keep one of your computers running, it does exactly the same thing as dropbox only...

- its free
- its faster
- it allows more control over syncing
- it allows for the use of secure keys for sharing files 

There's also a potentially significant security benefit to Bittorrent Sync, because you're the only one with a copy of the files.  That's a big deal if you don't like the NSA requisitioning dropbox for your data.  There's a caveat though, in that its not open source yet. Such as it is, we're still encrypting sensitive data before it gets synced, but BTsync is a big step in the right direction.