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Re:Dropbox for Business by ghshephard on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:14AM (#7094564)
I won't speak for the parent, but, some people have been know to use Virtual Machine that pretend to be a "Friend" and take advantage of Dropbox's customer acquisition technique.
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Re:Dropbox for Business by frm1001xplrr on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:58AM (#7095204)
In mid 2013 I signed up 22 referred accounts in a VM box for a family member with a newly created Dropbox account. Three months later all 22 inactive accounts were removed, and the extra storage was gone too.

I did it in 2011 as well for my own account and still have the extra storage. I've since upgraded though. Even 15GB is peanuts today...

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Re:Dropbox for Business by JoshGlazebrook on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:49AM (#7095156)
This works. They use your MAC address of your network adapter to differentiate referrals.
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Re:Dropbox for Business by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @09:28AM (#7095378)
No they don't; I've referred multiple times from the same machine using different users.
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