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PayPal Dumped Cloud Company After It Refused To Monitor Customers' Files (fortune.com)
German Dropbox rival Seafile claims PayPal dropped it as a customer after it refused to comply with the payment services company's demand to spy on its users' data. In a blog post, the company informed its customers that they can no longer pay for the service using PayPal -- the only payment method that Seafile currently relies on. CEO Silja Jackson told Fortune, "We're looking into alternative payment services, but currently we're running a cloud service and not getting paid." Founded in 2009, Seafile has over 250,000 users, many in universities. The service offers an open-source file-synchronization system that organizations can install on their own servers -- for a fee, if they want enterprise features -- and last October the firm decided to also start offering a paid version that's hosted on Seafile's German servers, for individuals and small businesses.
The misleading summary is pretty much expected now that Slashdot is a kook blog. Refusing to handle money transactions for criminals is responsible behavior, but if you pretend that refusing to be part of a criminal enterprise is an invasion of privacy, the foolish and misguided Libertarians will eat it right up, and go nuts on cue.
Seafile is a German company
No. Seafile is a Chinese company with a German subsidiary. They started in Beijing, helping college students illegally swap music and movies. Today, they also help German students do the same.