Google offers 15GB of free Drive storage, while OneDrive and Dropox offer five, and two gigabytes of free storage space respectively. Relatively abundant availability of free storage space by Google also makes Drive more enticing to customers, Jon added. Sharing such documents, or entire media files, is easy too, requiring less than five clicks. The documents can also allow other users to add more links, making it easier to find files. People use these documents to list a bunch of links to other file-sharing websites, and direct links to torrents.
It's fairly easy to upload media files (like movies) there, and to create documents that can be shared online. Google Drive has one of the simplest user interfaces among cloud storage services, Jon - who works in IT services - explained in a conversation over Reddit. Ease of use plays a major part in why people are using Google Drive, says Jon, a resident of Switzerland, whom Gadgets 360 met on a popular piracy discussion board on Reddit. It's very easy to create a Google account, which can then be used to access a plethora of company's services including Drive and YouTube. You can still find a number of movies on the site, and oddly enough, also things like game trailers and music videos that could safely be posted on other sites as well. Some pirates, getting creative, also turned to another streaming venue which is not used as widely - porn sites.įor example, last year, news outlets reported an instance where all the songs of Kanye West's The Life of Pablo album were uploaded as a video to the popular website PornHub. Popular video sites YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion are also being abused by distributing and hosting illicit content, DMCA takedown requests reveal, but the volume of such requests again implies that they are not being as widely used. There were less than a dozen requests pointing to Dropbox and OneDrive each. While there were more than 4,700 DMCA requests to pull Google Drive links last month, only about 100 requests to pull Mega links were filed during the same period. The links to these videos are then shared as Google Drive links through discussion forums and other channels so it's difficult for the content owners to find the videos and get them taken down.ĭropbox, Microsoft's OneDrive, and Mega are no different from Google Drive in this regard, but the volume of takedown notices suggests they are not being used as widely. YouTube videos stream really well even on poor connections, so that makes sense - but YouTube is also easy to search, and pirated files are taken down quickly, so this is surprising, right? It turns out that the pirates found a simple workaround - the videos are simply uploaded as unlisted, so they don't turn up in search results. But as evident from the ongoing abuse, it seems to be falling short.
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What's interesting though is that while at times pirates upload full movies to Google Drive or other cloud services, in other cases, these Google Drive links are empty and just have a YouTube video embedded. The company on its part introduced hash matching, a mechanism to detect infringing content, earlier this year. Each DMCA requests had listed a few hundred Google Drive links that the content owners wanted pulled. Google Drive seems most popular among such users, with nearly five thousand DMCA takedown requests filed by Hollywood studios and other copyright holders just last month. Cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Kim Dotcom's Mega are some of the popular ones that are being used to distribute copyrighted content, according to DMCA takedown requests reviewed by Gadgets 360.
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As crackdown on torrent sites continues around the world, people who are pirating TV shows and movies are having to get a little more creative.