On: Dropbox disconnects Boxopus for unwanted features

[fishbacon]

It still uses bandwidth to download to your local Dropbox.

[incongruity → fishbacon]

Right, but it lets you/your personal connection avoid one leg:

instead of torrent -> local dropbox -> cloud dropbox,

you get only use your bandwidth for cloud dropbox -> local dropbox.

Given that many residential ISPs that meter data service don't differentiate between uploaded vs. downloaded data, that's a potentially valuable way to externalize the bandwidth requirements for your torrent (of undoubtedly legal/paid or public domain content, I'm sure)...

[Danieru → fishbacon]

Which is one third of what it would take to download, maintain seed ratio of 1, and then push a copy to dropbox.

[Dylan16807 → fishbacon]

But not upload, which is usually far more restricted.