One of the functions that Dropbox users have always used more frequently are public folders, those folders that you have in your Dropbox cloud that you want to share with anyone else, regardless of whether they have a Dropbox account or not. This function is ideal for sharing photos of an event with our friends and family quickly and easily without having to resort to sending them by email or through a USB stick. But it also has a use that Dropbox does not like at all: piracy.
To try to put an end to these types of illegalities, the company has just announced that as of March 15 of next year, free account users will no longer be able to share folders publicly, a problem for all those who used it for other purposes but in the end are harmed by a few. What if we are going to be able to continue sharing are individual files by creating a shared link, but it is a half solution that many users will use absolutely nothing.
In this way, as of March 15, 2017, all public links that circulate on the internet will stop working and the files in those folders will no longer be public. In the email that Dropbox has sent to users, he affirms that he has worked to create other ways to share, so that when working together on a file is easier. It seems that Dropbox has another idea of how users use its cloud storage service.
Dropbox will allow users with premium accounts, that is, pay, continue to use this service. The guys at Dropbox think that layering this function in free accounts will allow increasing the number of premium users of this service, something very questionable considering that many users use it because it is free in addition to being compatible with most applications mobile phones on the market, not because of the space that it offers us for free, very limited compared to other services such as Google Drive, OneDrive ...