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yadayada / acd_cli

An unmaintained command line interface and FUSE filesystem for Amazon (Cloud) Drive
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is this project dead ? #579

Open suprimex opened 6 years ago

suprimex commented 6 years ago

just would like to know. As I noticed, cd_cli is not working for me for about ~months.

yadayada commented 6 years ago

Yes, it is pining for the fjords.

delian commented 6 years ago

Amazon has blocked acd_cli and there is no way for this project legally to continue to exist, as far as I understand

povlhp commented 6 years ago

In EU the product can legally exist. You can do all the reverse engineering with or without help, you want to make things compatible. You can not give up this right, even by contract.

Linwood-F commented 6 years ago

I think the "legally" means "practically". If Amazon blocks the app what are you going to do, raise funds to sue them to turn it back on? Europe has some weird (to others) rules, like the Right To Be Forgotten, so you might win. Maybe 5-10 years of litigation later. But for something like this, who is going to fund it?

And who is going to wait? I switched to a commercial product (Goodsync linux). It's pretty bad at this in many ways, and undocumented, but it is blessed by Amazon, so I just moved on.