I think you're missing an algebraic sign there.
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I'm not sure about the legal issue here though. If I see it correctly, you are downloading the songs to your server and serve the file from there. A lot of content that is uploaded is often times illegal, so you might be charged for distributing illegal content (illegal as in copyright).
What I'm also wondering. How come the parsing takes so long? I know other services that are a lot faster. Is it just the speed limit of the server itself?
The brothers do have some money, I suppose, from their company. However, I'm not sure if they are using the data gathered from this service, thus resulting in revenue somehow (maybe in their social network).
I see your point in people evangelizing VIM, Emacs, Apple, whatsoever, but... who cares? Let them be. I don't see, why you try so hard to prevent people from being happy and enjoy little things in life. Why does everything have to be insignificant, because something else is so much more significant? I seriously don't get your point there.
Let people love their editor, even if it is insignificant to you. People actually are more productive, when they are happy using a product they like, or could you seriously imagine writing code/surfing the web/do anything with the on-screen keyboard? Even you would get frustrated and would hate your job. It does matter. Maybe not the productivity-wise, but definitely how you, as a person, feel.
As for myself, I don't really care much about speed while coding, however, I do care much about being efficient at doing things. Why should I have to move my hands up to reach the arrow keys, if I can use the home row instead? I do think it is very tiresome to move my hands around (maybe because I'm lazy?). This of course applies to the mouse/trackpad as well. Again, you need to move your hand to away. Again. Not necessarily about speed, more about efficiency and convenience.
At least that's my first impression of Box, when compared to Dropbox.