- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Exclusive Author
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Beta Tester
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Spain
MarkBrodhuber said
One thing to keep in mind is that this isn’t really out of the norm for Google. Most of their business is made up by obtaining information about their users so that they can better serve ads and other things…
I really don’t mind if they manage some ads or whatever based on some kind of preferences or data they could recover from my usage of their products (search engine, email service, etc.) but taking ownership and freedom to do whatever with the stuff i storage or send through my email is far (really far) away from my worse expectations about legal terms.
- Australia
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars
I am somehwat intrigued as to the legality of their Terms too.
Surely if you are “paying” to host files, then as a paying user you deserve to keep distribution intact under your title
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Author was Featured
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Netherlands
- Community Moderator
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Exclusive Author
“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” Not necessarily something fundamentally wrong, though – just good to be aware of.
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
Well, am I only one here who will switch from Dropbox to Google Drive?
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Author was Featured
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
I got my invite on day one but have not even looked at it yet. No real need for a service like this with 2TB of space 
Also, for backup I have externals, I have used gmail since the beta invite only days and trust them more than most sites but still would not feel comfortable using them as a backup solution.
- India
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Beta Tester
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
DryThemes saidYou give your themes free to google if you backup your themes on GDrive! read the TOC .
Well, am I only one here who will switch from Dropbox to Google Drive?
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
laranz saidI read the TOC , and I’m fine with it. It’s not that black and white like you think. You can read more here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud
DryThemes saidYou give your themes free to google if you backup your themes on GDrive! read the TOC .
Well, am I only one here who will switch from Dropbox to Google Drive?
Anyway, I don’t use gDrive for my themes and templates backup (not yet for sure). I actually use two external HDs for that.
- Community Superstar
- Italy
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Beta Tester
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Exclusive Author
- Author had a Free File of the Month
just a question. what if I encrypt everything?
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Europe
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars
- Exclusive Author
Just got it working. I think I’ll stop using my Dropbox account from now on. I use the Google cloud for all sorts of things and GD is well integrated into this. That said, this service is really not an innovation as Google would have it…:)
