I just found out DropBox(free) and I'm not sure if using it as a private storage for file uploads for a website is allowed and is not considered an abuse of their service.  For example, a blogger displays in image in his/her article and that image is stored in his/her dropbox.    Or a portfolio site of an artist featuring his/her artwork samples in his website and those pictures of his art are stored from his/her dropbox.  And how about a small commercial website like a website of a restaurant featuring its dishes?
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I'm making a website on a free hosting that doesn't have much space or bandwidth. So I considered using Dropbox Public folder for static files, such as:   Javascript, CSS Images Downloads (each a few hundred kilobytes)   Does Dropbox allow such extensive usage, and what is the limit?
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I currently run a headless server (Ubuntu server 12.10) with various applications running on the box accessed via web interfaces (transmission, plex etc). The box sits at a site with a quick and serves the purpose of being a central file repository, torrent box.   I was wondering if there was any application I could install on it which I could access via a web interface, password protected, which allowed me to punch in a file URL and it could download that file to a predetermined folder? Something similar to the transmission client for ubuntu server but for files off the web?
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I use SkyDrive as my main cloud storage, but my teammates mostly using Dropbox. I'd like to know how to sync my files on Dropbox account with my SkyDrive without downloading them first and uploading again. I need both account are always synced on the cloud, so I can access my shared folder on Dropbox via SkyDrive. Please help.
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I just created three albums at iCloud.com that I'd like to give other people read access to. The information  describes only how to create a new shared album, but the albums I want to share have already been created.   The people I'll be sharing with don't have Apple devices.  I'm used to cloud storage facilities such as Google Drive or Dropbox that make it easy to create a link to something in the cloud so that the link can be sent to others. Isn't there a way to do this for iCloud?
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I have a website with adsense. Can I share Linux distro VirtualBox images with users? Is this legal? Will it affect my adsense account?
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Is there any question of losing ownership of their work if people stream themselves coding? I can understand that streaming modeling, animations, and game design would be fine because even if you see someone do it it will take time to do, but what about code?  Are there worries about other people recording their streams and using their code? Is there some special case for these games like being open source or non proprietary?
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This is a  about File Permissions on a Linux web server.   I have a Linux web server running Apache2 that hosts several websites. Each website has its own folder in /var/www/.  /var/www/contoso.com/ /var/www/contoso.net/ /var/www/fabrikam.com/   The base directory /var/www/ is owned by root:root. Apache is running as www-data:www-data. The Fabrikam website is maintained by two developers, Alice and Bob. Both Contoso websites are maintained by one developer, Eve. All websites allow users to upload images. If a website is compromised, the impact should be as limited as possible.  I want to know the best way to set up permissions so that Apache can serve the content, the website is secure from attacks, and the developers can still make changes. One of the websites is structured like this:  /var/www/fabrikam.com     /cache     /modules     /styles     /uploads     /index.php   How should the permissions be set on these directories and files? I read somewhere that you should never use 777 permissions on a website, but I don't understand what problems that could cause. During busy periods, the website automatically caches some pages and stores the results in the cache folder. All of the content submitted by website visitors is saved to the uploads folder.
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Some image hosting sites like Imgur and min.us support image uploading via drag-and-drop in Chrome and Firefox. It would be nice if you could upload an image and add it to your post by dropping it on the edit page.
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This is a legal question and I want to know if I can continue the way I work in a commercial environment. This is not about if I can blatantly take images from the web and use them as they are.  What I do is mostly icons and iconographic imagery where in the end no one can tell if I used an image that doesn't belong to me as a starting point.  Here is an example.    See, technically I stole.  I'd like to know if this is perfectly okay and counts as a new work or if it's sort-of okay because I might not get into legal trouble. Or maybe I should be really careful.  I actually don't know.
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I love encfs as it provides file-based encrypting which is quite useful when it comes to cloud storage. But it looks like that especially for this use case, . I'm aware that  but how to deal with it in the meantime? Are there any alternatives that integrate well in ubuntu?  Edit: The security issue I mostly refer to is . It is still present in version 1.8 and makes your files vulnerable if someone get's multiple versions of your encrypted files. If one is worried about services like Dropbox are not that thrustworthy and encrypts folders uploaded into the cloud because of that, the opportunity that the attacker (the service) gets more than one copy of the cyphertext is absolutely given.
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I'm gearing up to deploy a Drupal 7 site and I can't find any documentation about what the recommended security-conscious file and directory permissions should be set to.  Specifically default/files/ (also sub directories?), settings.php, .htaccess and anything else I should be aware of.
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It's really hard getting a definite answer on this so I'm going to ask it here. Is there a legal way to stream new music on a website without getting artist consent first. There seems to be a lot of popular sites like hotnewhiphop.com doing this that are hosting from both the US and Canada so I'm guessing there is a grey area that allows it. For the record I don't allow downloads of the music and simply stream each song in a player.
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I am running a web site design service for local small business owner. I want avoid legal issues on the images I use. Usually, the images found on Flickr are forbidden for commercial use. Where would be a normal channel to get pictures for commercial use with minimal cost? How can I validate that the picture I used has no legal risk?
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I posted a question and a couple of respondents asked for the source code. I could only post portions of the code.  If attachments were allowed I could have uploaded a .zip file with the whole application.  Will this be a feature in SO?
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It's    that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for 's recent posts, presumably because they all link to his website. Initially I disagreed because his answers seem for the most part relevant to the question, but then I looked into it more and realized there's three things that set this apart from most of the related cases that have come up:   This isn't an occasional thing -- he's posted  in the last year This isn't a random blog he writes for a fun, it's a for-profit company he  and makes money promoting I'm not willing to go through all 412, but from the sample I checked, he generally doesn't mention that the products he's recommending are his own. The site is linked from his profile, but most people aren't going to check that   Is all this considered acceptable use, or are the spam flags accurate?
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I am looking for a way to take a user uploaded image that is currently put in a temporary location ex: /tmp/jkhjkh78 and create a php image from it, autodetecting the format.  Is there a more clever way to do this than a bunch of try/catching with imagefromjpeg, imagefrompng, etc?
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I was doing a duplicate content search on the web for our site content and found that someone has downloaded/mirrored our entire website and is hosting it on a subdomain of their own main domain. When I check the WHOIS database, no details of the user are available.  Why do people do this when it is clearly a copyright infringement - is it an SEO thing?  What is the best way of dealing with these individuals?