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Old 08-17-2012   #25
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Originally Posted by oPolo View Post
Good idea, and actually sounds quite easy to make If showtime has dropbox support that would also mean the required APIs from Dropbox' side to do it, would be available

There is only one slight problem and that is with the sharing of gamesaves. Dropbox does allow you to upload and to share your files, but they do not allow you to use them as a hosting service. Excessive use of bandwidth in the downstream direction (as in, your file is being downloaded in unacceptable amounts, which indicate its being used as a hosting service for file sharing) will either get your account closed, or limited so its unable to share public files/download. Perhaps an excessive amount of connections, as in a lot of different users are connecting and downloading the files, is something that they monitor as well.
Sadly I do not know their thresholds for when they raise their flags.
People use Dropbox for all sorts of syncing application, storage stuff. There are tons of apple/windows/android/iphone apps that relies on dropbox. I don't think it will be much of a problem. I don't think it will require excessive bandwidth. PS3 Game Save are small files. From 1 MB - 10 MB. I believe it will be fine.
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