Is Dropbox planning a P2P option? New patent suggests it's looking beyond the cloud

Macworld
Jan 4, 2016, 2:11 pm333 pts
Dropbox has been granted a patent on a new peer-to-peer file-sharing technology that suggests it may be planning an alternative to its existing cloud-based service. Designed to facilitate file sharing across devices without the need for content to go through its own cloud servers, the new technology promises…

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