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I'd love to use Dropbox again, but ethically cannot as long as Rice is still on the board.

I had the same moral objections as you and I've been using btsync (http://www.bittorrent.com/sync) and must admit it works great. My archive is not that big tough, ymmv.

To be honest I won't use dropbox again, even if Rice quits, since btsync is vastly superior for my use cases.

You can also use Syncthing since its development is progressing well, too.

You are going to hate the new --upcoming-- BTSync.

Could you give us some info about what you mean ?

Beta testers are under NDA, sorry.

Update: I stand corrected, it seems it was released yesterday. See http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/download

So, in that case, what's to hate?

No clue, but here are the changes:

http://sync-help.bittorrent.com/customer/portal/articles/163...

I had to make one extra click to add a folder.

It's outrageous!

points for faux outrage.

Don't single out Ms. Rice. Have you checked who made your jeans? Or why tomatoes are cheap at the local grocery store? Or the latte you paid $8 at Starbucks?

She's a war criminal.

I unfortunately can't avoid produce and my pants (although I'd sure like to!), or thoroughly vet all of my local coffee shops' bean sources. I can, however, choose not to use this service.

Ah yes, here we go, war criminal. Same with nearly 100 Senators and much of the House at that time who voted for the Patriot Act and war.

I guess if everyone is doing it, it's ok!

You can find most clothing produced in the US so at least you're mostly guaranteed that the workers were at or above minimum US labor standards. And chances are any cotton/wool are of domestic origin as well.

Yeah, if you're not trying to solve all the problems in the world at once, why try to solve anything?

Have you switched to an alternative?

If privacy matters use http://owncloud.org same experience like Dropbox with desktop client. Or host your data under the german privacy law like https://owner.io 500 GB for $ 89 per month.

What do you use instead of Dropbox?

Spideroak, but my storage needs aren't incredibly high. I only use it for old code archives. Everything else is on gdocs.

edit: if I'm putting a huge file up (last one that comes to mind is one my dad shot of him driving his MG TC), I put it up on S3 so he can share it around.

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