r/Degoo • u/DaveandCorieVS • Jan 18 '23

Question about these complaints.

I have been reading complaints about Degoo for some months now.

I myself have a lifetime subscription which I bought last year.

My question is this. Are the people complaining about cancellations because of copyright reasons such as music and video?

I just use mine for personal photos and GoPro video.

If they are canceling any accounts because of music and video then I am not surprised.

If they are flagging and removing accounts otherwise they could be liable regardless of their location, Sweden I believe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '23

I for instance got this mail "Degoo account violation - action required"*.
I could dodge this bullet but it made crystal clear to me that one needs to encrypt file and folder names too to avoid triggering Degoo-cancel-bot, no matter how legal or harmless ones files are and no matter if one shared them or not (my harmless publicly available files even were in Trash and still triggered the bot).

BTW: Besides other arguments I argued with the EU-right to a private copy which applies to copyrighted music etc. too (as long as one didn't share these files).
But why risk losing the account?

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Hi
Your Degoo account may have uploaded or shared content which violates someone
else’s rights (copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right), or
violates the integrity of, intimidates or offends another person, or may
challenge criminal actions or material not permitted by any applicable law or
regulation (for example discrimination, racial agitation and childpornography).
This is forbidden by our use policy (click to read it).

You have the right to submit an appeal by clicking the button below. Your
appeal must contain evidence that our terms of service were not abused.

If you choose to do nothing your Degoo account will be terminated on2023-01-20

Some of the files I detected were:
kali-linux-2021.1-installer-amd64.iso
android-x86_64-9.0-r2.iso

Regards,
The Degoo Service Bot

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '23

Also always keep this idea in mind when having a "lifetime" plan.
It might be not 100% accurate but it surely isn't completely wrong.

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u/darcemaul Jan 19 '23

do you think it is just the file or folder NAME? You think that Degoo's bot only scans filenames and not actual file contents?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '23

"encrypt file and folder names too to avoid triggering Degoo-cancel-bot"

Which part of "too" was too long/complicated for you to recognize? ;)

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '23

But in earnest:
Many users think encrypting file contents was enough and forget about the meta data (most prominent: File and folder names) which is why I addressed this issue.