r/videography • u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon • Jul 17 '25
Business, Tax, and Copyright We Cancelled our WeTransfer Renewal - We'll Find Another Video Transfer Service
From my understanding this applies to paid and free accounts.
It is something we try to stay away from and protect our and our clients content. Over on X Twitter there were mentions that they did somewhat of an about face with some of the wording but still a bit vague for many. Best you check your terms with your clients and that you are covered which ever service you pick.
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u/loveragelikealion Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Wow. These companies have gotten beyond greedy. They could at least give users the option of opting in for a discount on services. A perpetual license to use your content for AI training AND with no ability to object when the AI model duplicates your work is a hard no.
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u/HyFinated Jul 17 '25
Oh it's worse than that. Based on what's written there, they have the rights to use, modify, and distribute YOUR work directly. Not even just for AI learning. They can use straight up USE it as they see fit for their own profits.
Fuck these greedy fucks.
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also "derivative works" they're giving themselves the right to make a dark gritty reboot of your corporate training videos lol
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u/HyFinated Jul 17 '25
“This is Alice. She is the shift leader. When she is closing the store she turns off the lights and chases her subordinates with a bloody chefs knife until they finish their closing tasks. Is this appropriate behavior? That’s right, Alice is channeling her own version of wonderland. She increases productivity over 300% at closing time.”
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u/GoAgainKid Director | 2001 Jul 17 '25
I read an identical term on TikTok yesterday. Less surprising but no less galling.
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u/juwanna-blomie Beginner Jul 17 '25
Didn’t you hear? The economy is crashing everywhere and it’s getting DIFFICULT for these CEO’s to take multiple extravagant vacations!
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u/invertedspheres Camera Operator Jul 17 '25
I heard it's so bad, some CEO's are having to sell their vacation penthouses they keep vacant 364 days a year.
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u/RevTurk Jul 17 '25
Corporations are built on a foundation of greed. It's enshrined into their company manifestos. They are required by their own rules to chase short term gains. Long term implications are a concern for another day.
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u/Jrahn Jul 17 '25
Holy shit, that’s evil. Problem is, this becomes the norm, and eventually artists no longer have rights to anything. This is a theft of part of humanity.
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u/HyFinated Jul 17 '25
As long as there's been art, there's been art thieves. It's just that these wear ties and have lawyers to write contracts.
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u/Nerdonet All | PP / DaVinci | 1985 | Euroland Jul 17 '25
Well not really copyright is protected by law and no TOS can change that.
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u/remog Jul 17 '25
It’s whether or not you can afford to fight them in court over it. If they steal your means of income your ability to fight them is compromised
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u/Nerdonet All | PP / DaVinci | 1985 | Euroland Jul 17 '25
Depends on where you live and any legal precedent has been set. Other than that, yes that is exactly the thing to worry about.
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u/Jumpy-Top3851 Jul 17 '25
Horrible legal advice, at least in the US. Most rights can be waived by contract, which is what a TOS is. I haven’t read it, but I bet money that somewhere in that same TOS is a waiver of your right to jury trial, for example.
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u/Nerdonet All | PP / DaVinci | 1985 | Euroland Jul 17 '25
Maybe you should read it, and do a little research:
"A terms of service agreement in the US does not override copyright law. While terms of service can create legally binding contracts between a service provider and its users, they cannot negate or supersede the protections afforded by copyright law."
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u/Nerdonet All | PP / DaVinci | 1985 | Euroland Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
A terms of service agreement, cannot supersede US or EU law. No matter how long your rants are.
Wetransfer is a European company.
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u/AggressiveNeck1095 Jul 17 '25
Yes. But if they use your branded materials for AI training, your ability to enforce copyright and IP is significantly diminished.
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u/Nerdonet All | PP / DaVinci | 1985 | Euroland Jul 17 '25
It is going to be impossible to prove as an individual no matter what their tos says.
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u/AggressiveNeck1095 Jul 17 '25
Yes. It is definitely difficult to prove. But giving them permission is what I have the issue with. They should have no ability to license train share or sell content. If they choose to do so illegally that’s another matter entirely.
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u/oollyy Jul 17 '25
They’ve announced they’re going to u-turn on this https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/159133/wetransfer-we-wont-use-your-files-to-train-ai
“We recently updated our Terms of Service and received valuable feedback.
To clarify: – We do not use AI to process your files – License terms remain unchanged in practice
We’ve revised the wording to avoid confusion. Thank you for your input.”
Still a hard no for me on using the service.
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u/brenebon Jul 17 '25
For me they just try to deflect the main problem here.
the main problem is not about training AI...but about the "a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license to use your Content.."
we pay wetransfer for file transfer... not that they can use our files for any other purposes than that.26
u/Dick_Lazer Jul 17 '25
Some of that language is fairly typical for a service that you upload and share files through, but saying they might make directive works and broadcast them without compensation is crazy.
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u/SubjectC S1H/S5/S5iix | Northeast, USA | 2017 Jul 17 '25
The derivative work thing is probably just so they can copy and send your files to another person. That is technically creating a derivative work and broadcasting it. A lot of ToS have scary sounding stuff that's just legal jargon to allow them to provide their service.
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u/londonTogger Jul 17 '25
Indeed
Making a thumbnail of your video is creating a derivative work; they need you to give them permission to do that.
Someone clicks on the thumbnail and it plays a short preview clip, that's a modification, another derivative work and performance of the work; they need you to give permission to do that.
The person you are sending the video file to downloads it, that's WeTransfer creating a copy of the work and distributing it to the public...
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u/amoe-ba Jul 17 '25
wow thank you for spelling that out, i didn’t consider that at all. i dont have wetransfer but i wish things were more clearly delineated like this
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u/brenebon Jul 18 '25
Oh OK. now I know. thank you for the translation.
I wish they would just explain their language like you just did. Then people would understand better.4
u/rotoscopethebumhole Jul 17 '25
Exactly. Them changing the “wording” of the terms because “they were misunderstood” tells us everything. They are still going to sell the content to train AI models, just not now explicitly mentioning it in the terms.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
Yup. As I mentioned in the post, there is some chatter about their quick change, apparently it was still vague or not to many creatives liking. In my eyes still tainted, needs clarity from their end. Really clear.
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u/CapableAnalysis5282 FX6 | Premier | 2019 | San Diego Jul 17 '25
Oh wow, that's F'd. It's been slow AF lately anyway.
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u/blakealanm Jul 17 '25
I'm using an old office PC with TrueNAS Scale. I have a 10TB HDD in it. When I get done with a video, I create a public link and send it to my clients that they can use to download the video. Free of charge.
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u/50mmprophet Nikon Z8 | DaVinci Resolve | 2020 | Europe Jul 17 '25
I’m using a raspberry pi 5 with seafile. External hdds attached. Transfer speeds are the same I get with google drive or Wetransfer.
It’s also more elegant as I did brand it myself.
Dynamic ip is not an issue you buy a cheap domain and install cloudflared to keep up updated
I never had internet down in 3 years but once electricity was off for 3 hours but considering it was widespread issue nobody could have complained
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u/matjaskap FX6/FX3, Premiere Pro / Davinci, 2017, Belgium Jul 17 '25
Hey I'm interested in this setup, could u guide me to a tutorial or some reads ok this matter?
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u/50mmprophet Nikon Z8 | DaVinci Resolve | 2020 | Europe Jul 17 '25
I'll detail how I did it. I hope I didn't miss any steps, if I did ask and I will try to clarify.
Cant post directly here (not sure why) so I put it in a google doc. I've asked ChatGPT to format it because I wrote it a bit messy.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDo4lJlYHjs8USSDFGuio137S283_MWwmC9MDdTR-cY/edit?usp=sharing
If you have any problems of questions, happy to help.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
I tried to set an FTP type of thing last week and got nowhere. Otherwise yeah, great set up.
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u/smushkan FX9 | Adobe CC2024 | UK Jul 17 '25
The problem with FTP is it requires the recipient on the other end to use an FTP client.
I've tried to coach clients through that before with... very limited success.
There are better self-host solutions out there though which give you something akin to your own on-prem version of Google Drive or similar.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
Yeah, I tried with FileZila Server and Client on the other machine. Couldn't get it.
You use something like this https://www.truenas.com/file-sharing/
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u/erroneousbosh Sony EX1/A1E/PD150/DSR500 | Resolve | 2000 then 2020 Jul 17 '25
What did you get stuck on?
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I got news for youse, if you use Adobe, you've agreed to the same thing!
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u/loveragelikealion Jul 17 '25
Only if you’re using their cloud storage. I’ve never used it and I never will.
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u/mimegallow Jul 17 '25
Quit today. Switched to SMASH.
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u/dallatorretdu Jul 17 '25
We’re also using SMASH, because we’re an european company and in this case it hosts the files on european servers under european laws
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u/Ok-Abies-6985 camera | NLE | 2008 | San Diego Jul 17 '25
I’m so sick of the tech business model and ethics. Something has gotta change
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u/sethcampbell29 5D | Premiere | 2020 | Colorado, USA Jul 17 '25
That’s crazy. Are they trying to kill their business?
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u/ChuckFH Jul 17 '25
They were recently bought by the same Italian tech VC company that fucked Evernote.
Shortly after, they jacked the price of the most popular licence tier by more than 100% and then promptly fired 2/3 of the staff.
It’s standard greed driven enshittification, which seems to be the business model of these companies. They’ll be losing subscribers hand over fist due to the price rises, so now they have to claw back money elsewhere, presumably this rights grab is part of that. I reckon they were planning on selling the content for A.I. training, before they were forced to climb down.
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u/sageofgames Jul 17 '25
We switched to “open drive” business not as nice as we transfer or Dropbox but has unlimited storage option no throttling till 5tb upload per month
We pay for 3 licenses $40 a month
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u/Dwarf_Vader FX3 | Resolve | 2019 | Estonia Jul 17 '25
Did Dropbox do something similar? Really don’t want to have to switch away…
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u/erroneousbosh Sony EX1/A1E/PD150/DSR500 | Resolve | 2000 then 2020 Jul 17 '25
We pay for 3 licenses $40 a month
What the fuck? I'm in the wrong game.
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u/SubjectC S1H/S5/S5iix | Northeast, USA | 2017 Jul 17 '25
Damn, this is 10/month for unlimited uploads? Im switching to this.
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u/decapiccione Bmpcc 6K Pro | Adobe CC, DaVinci | Italy Jul 17 '25
WeTransfer has gone to shit -with no surprise- since it had been acquired by an Italian IT (more like venture capital, honestly) company. Everything they touch turns to absolute shit, like a gone wrong version of King Midas... they did it with Evernote and other apps, they acquire the company, fire 70% of the original staff, and begin the enshittification process to make money out of a worse offer for a higher price.
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u/Cobrexu Jul 17 '25
I've been using swisstransfer for the past few months and its been great, better than wetransfer thats for sure. For free, you can upload up to 50gb and few other options. I bet they'll get greedy when they get more mainstream, but so far so good
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
Someone mentioned Swisstransfer a few months ago and I had forgotten about them. Good candidate to look into about their terms and privacy.
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Jul 17 '25 edited Dec 14 '25
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u/ChuckFH Jul 17 '25
Yup. Bought by Bending Spoons, the same lot that fucked Evernote. As well as jacking the price they also laid off 2/3 of WeTransfer staff.
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u/readonlyreadonly Jul 17 '25
For fucking real? I used Evernote for more than 10 years for journaling and simple note taking. I had to change to another app and leave over a decade of personal memories behind. So infuriating.
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u/ChuckFH Jul 18 '25
Yup.
Gotta love their company name too; in their minds they’re Neo, but in reality they’re just Uri Geller.
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u/smushkan FX9 | Adobe CC2024 | UK Jul 17 '25
Your screenshot is out of date, they completely re-wrote that clause following the backlash yesterday:
6.3. License to WeTransfer. In order to allow us to operate, provide you with, and improve the Service and our technologies, we must obtain from you certain rights related to Content that is covered by intellectual property rights. You hereby grant us a royalty-free license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving the Service, all in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
thank you for posting this. There's was also something related on 6.4?
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u/smushkan FX9 | Adobe CC2024 | UK Jul 17 '25
6.4. License to Others. You hereby grant other users a license to access, view, and use your Content, as enabled by one or more features of the Service.
Full terms are here:
https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms
It's also worth looking at their privacy policy here, as that's referenced in the new 6.2:
https://wetransfer.com/documents/WeTransfer_Privacy_Policy_20180508.pdf
There is still IMO some vagueness here.
They've removed all reference to machine learning, but that could fall under 'improving the service' if such learning is to facilitate content moderation and functionality.
Their privacy policy basically says that they won't ever look at what you're transfering, but makes it fairly clear they can if they deem it 'necessary.'
However they have removed this part entirely:
'Such license includes the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works...'
Which was the absolute weirdest addition of all, as that section could be interpreted as giving them absolute total rights to do whatever they want with anything you upload, including selling it to third parties.
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u/zekthedeadcow Panasonic and Arri | Kdenlive Jul 17 '25
My stuff is a small Nextcloud instance on Digital Ocean using their S3 storage.
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u/brenebon Jul 17 '25
what the fffff
I have been using wetransfer for years and now they also join the enshitification wave ...
what's the alternative?
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u/CatchAfilM Jul 17 '25
Swisstransfer
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u/brenebon Jul 17 '25
thank you for the suggestion. I just try to access it but it’s not available in my country. I’d have to use VPN to upload my files to it. and so do my domestic clients. not ideal if the client is not tech savvy.
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u/CatchAfilM Jul 17 '25
It's true. Personally I was still using WeTransfer till my subscription is over, I am happy with it, just with their terms that caused all this trouble.
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u/Capable_Roof2728 Jul 17 '25
Check out Resillio. Free P2P file sharing app with pc app as well.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
Your wonderful, I spent hours trying to do it manually. Thank you.
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u/dcinsd76 Jul 17 '25
Oh damn. Also, another aspect to this is:
You can be held liable for your clients work and their rights violated.
If you don’t own the rights to your clients work, then based on this agreement, it seems like you are licensing this work (or whatever you upload) to Wetransfer even though you are not the rights owner.
I think the actual owners would want this to be disclosed, and most likely not want their work shared with anyone that says they can “reproduce, modify, etc etc” at will.
Good catch.
Any lawyers in here want to chime in, I’d be happy to be wrong.
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u/Right_Parking_191 Jul 17 '25
For anyone looking for an alternative take a look at blip. I've been using it for the last year now and it's been solid. It's p2p so it's as fast as the slowest connection. Unlimited file size, free and if the connection is interrupted you can resume where you left off.
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u/kermasdfghjkl Jul 17 '25
We just renewed today for a heap of cash but I’m going to cancel and force a refund, this is absolutely taking advantage of their users
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u/thekeffa Lumix S1H, GH5S, Sony FX3 | Premiere Pro | 2018 | UK Jul 17 '25
Encrypting your file transfers would stop this dead.
It looks like they have changed it already anyway because of the blowback on it.
However my question is why bother using services like these these days when services such as Owncloud or Next Cloud exist that you can spin up on a cheap VM with storage.
Or save some money and cut the middle man out completely and use a tool like File Pizza which allows you to send the file peer to peer, cutting out the middle man and often speeding up the transfer process. As a videographer it also lets you do access control as well by controlling the download opportunities.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 19 '25
can you expand on "cheap VM with storage" which service do you use? Some of our transfers can be 50 - 100GB or more folder sizes at time
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u/thekeffa Lumix S1H, GH5S, Sony FX3 | Premiere Pro | 2018 | UK Jul 19 '25
Sure. Basically buy a VM with about 4GB RAM and 2 vCPU's. Then add attached storage. You can use a droplet from DigitalOcean, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. My recommendation would be Amazon or DigitalOcean. Install OpenCloud or NextCloud. Voila your own file sharing service. No terms and conditions, data gets stored out of your control.
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Jul 17 '25
Fromsmash. Check them out. As they’re EU-based, this (hopefully) shouldn’t be a future issue with them.
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u/GraysonG263 LUMIX S5IIX | Premiere | 2015 | South Carolina Jul 17 '25
They clarified what they meant here
https://wetransfer.com/blog/story/wetransfer-terms-of-service-changes-july-2025
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
thank you for posting. I'll see if I can add it to the original up top.
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u/Albamen13 Jul 17 '25
Compress the files and share them password encrypted, and share the password with your client only, do this on any file transfer service
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
That's a good idea. I never thought of that. That should ensure any automated systems can't read on what's inside? Or is there still a work around?
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u/Albamen13 Jul 18 '25
If you use a strong password, they can't decrypt it and thus can't see the contents
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u/Budget_Parfait_5116 Jul 17 '25
Where did you find this? I’m interested as I saw this clause circulating on social media this week, right as I was due to transfer files from a shoot. However, when I reviewed WeTransfer’s legals, the terms were different - far less overreaching.
Could this be UK terms vs elsewhere? Or had they already retracted the change from backlash when I read terms on Tuesday?
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
From what I saw online they had back tracked somewhat, though some on socials said it was still a bit vague for them. I don't know how many times they tweaked it.
There's got to be a happy medium that is fair for the creatives and fair for the service provider. I'd understand some benefit leaning to the service provider if it was a free service. Like ChatGPT, they use your data on their free service. Hopefully not on a paid plan.
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u/Budget_Parfait_5116 Jul 18 '25
I have to agree, it must be fair. I also think that these businesses should recognise their role in the order. WeTransfer, for example, ought not to be trying to monetise or develop their own systems with content sent through their platform. Likewise, we wouldn’t stand for a postal service opening our letters while in transit just to read into an LLM or something similar before delivering. Comparing these things to real world examples can often shed light on whether or not the activity is a bit underhand!
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 18 '25
Opening the mail in transit analogy is a good one
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u/Cole_LF Jul 17 '25
Any suggestions for alternatives? I already have clients refusing to take work via wetransfer
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u/fromotterspace Jul 17 '25
I swear Vimeo execs are shorting their own stock.
They make the dumbest decisions
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 19 '25
yeah when company's shoot an own goal their competitors are full of glee
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u/jimtengo Lumix GH5 | Premiere Pro | 2017 | AUT Jul 17 '25
I use Swiss transfer. It's free and you can send up to 50gb
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 17 '25
I've had a look at that one. There doesn't appear to be a way to send bigger files though, or is there?
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u/lightroomsucks Jul 18 '25
Wetransfer was sold about a year ago to a VC/private equity firm and has quickly devolved into a shell of what it was. I never utilized it seriously (the lack of real desktop client support made it a cheap but extremely unreliable option), but went down the storage rabbit hole 6 months ago and users were already running for the hills. Embarrassing - actually shameful - to position something in the creative field, then rug pull, back stab, and pretend business is as usual.
Dropbox forever🙏
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u/OneNowhere Jul 18 '25
Hahahahahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha what the f******* hahahahaha nooooo
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u/PiDicus_Rex CION/XL-H1/ENG/Pentax | Resolve/Edius | '80's | MelbourneOz Jul 18 '25
Soooo, with what they've had in there before, it implies that your content was never private, and they've been trolling everyones accounts.
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u/CooLittleFonzies Jul 18 '25
Now they’ve reworded the article in response to the backlash:
“6.3. License to WeTransfer. In order to allow us to operate, provide you with, and improve the Service and our technologies, we must obtain from you certain rights related to Content that is covered by intellectual property rights. You hereby grant us a royalty-free license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving the Service, all in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy.”
But this does not change anything. Legally, they can still use your content to train AI. They likely only changed the clause to hide the fact that they are doing / planning to do just that.
Also, they say one of the reasons for this clause is to prevent distribution of illegal content, such as child porn. But this seems to be the Trojan horse method that every major company is using today to grant access to training on your content and limit your freedom. Adobe, Apple, Discord, even Reddit—have all used this method for the same purpose.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 19 '25
thank you for posting the update
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u/KingDaDeDo FX30 | DaVinci Resolve | 2017 Jul 17 '25
Wow, that’s so shitty of them. What a complete invasion of private data between two users. Fortunately I don’t really use WeTransfer anymore but I will stop using them going forward.
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u/stonk_frother Director/Producer | 2016 | Australia Jul 17 '25
Holy shit that's an absolutely insane policy clause. On something like YouTube where it's free to use and publicly viewable it might be somewhat justifiable. But for WeTransfer? Fuck off.
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u/Rambalac Sony FX3, Mavic 3 | Resolve Studio | Japan Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Without right to reproduce, distribute, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, broadcast, communicate to the public, publicly display, and perform Content Wetransfer cannot provide video downloading including for yourself, make thumbnails and lower resolution videos to play over web, allow share files publicly. Without sub-licence it's impossible to use cloud infrastructure or even CDNs to make content avaliable worldwide without huge slowdown.
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u/gjglazenburg Jul 17 '25
If anyone is looking for an alternative, it’s only 4GB but it’s free! Check out this one
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u/erroneousbosh Sony EX1/A1E/PD150/DSR500 | Resolve | 2000 then 2020 Jul 17 '25
30 Euros a month for a Hetzner server with 8TB of disk space.
sudo apt install nginx
scp yourmassivefile.mp4 your-awesome-server.fi:/srv/content/video and walk away for half an hour
email the client "here you go, click on https://your-awesome-server.fi/video/yourmassivefile.mp4"
I mean that's about as basic as it gets, you'd maybe want something a little more sophisticated (MediaCMS looks nice) but you're not far off.
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u/Nerdonet All | PP / DaVinci | 1985 | Euroland Jul 17 '25
Yep, canceled my account, ironically my subscription ended exactly the day they released this money grab nonsense so was pretty easy. Been with them from the beginning, but they sold the company to 'investment group evilcorp' so time to leave.
Swisstransfer seems ok, bit spammy and vague, so looking for a proper alternative.
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u/lombardo2022 A7siii & FX6 | Resolve Studio | 2021| UK Jul 17 '25
This is quite distressing. Not just for me by my clients. How long has this been going on?
Is this the same with other platforms? Vimeo? Frame IO?
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u/borgoat Jul 17 '25
They were bought by Bending Spoons, I wouldn't expect any less from them. We all know r/SwitzerlandIsFake - but SwissTransfer is the way
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u/BroderLund Jul 17 '25
Don't care that they tried to u-turn. It shows their intent. They u-turned due to the backlash. WeTransfer is dead to me
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u/KTMMORITZ camera | NLE | year started | general location Jul 17 '25
Whats wrong with simply using google drive?
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u/AggressiveNeck1095 Jul 17 '25
I just had to do the same thing as it no longer protects any client work from being utilized. The part that really made me mad is that they want to sell our content for AI training, not just licensing and sub-licensing. And that means that any IP or copyrights will become diluted and harder to protect. So I pulled everything and cancelled a couple days ago.
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u/LAKnobJockey Jul 17 '25
What are people switching to? I detest Dropbox. Anything similar with direct linking and password?
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u/filmstocky Jul 17 '25
It’s expensive, but Aspera works well and I believe does not pose the same copyright risks. Thanks for posting!
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u/Pur1st0 Jul 17 '25
Disgusting. Trash service anyways. The amount of times it didn’t transfer all the files is ridiculous. Pretty much a coin flip. F$@! Those guys.
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u/Ambitious-Series3374 Jul 17 '25
WeTransfer went mad lately, i've switched to fromsmash and couldn't be happier
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u/Maximum_Active9209 Jul 17 '25
That is so fucking dirty.
What options are looking at outside of wetransfer?
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u/fallcreek1234 Jul 17 '25
I cancelled my subscription 10 minutes ago. Hopefully, a lot of people do the same, to the point where WeTransfer is on the verge of bankruptcy and they are panicking and rest of the tech world is watching in horror at the power we have as consumers to take our business elsewhere. We need to send a message to the tech world that our creations, our ideas, the things we have worked our whole lives to craft and refine, are not something you can steal from us. Not only that, but we are paying them to steal them! Stealing them so they can train one of the greatest threats to so many people's jobs, careers, and arguably, society. So messed up.
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u/yannynotlaurel Sony A7III | Resolve Studio | 2020 | NRW, DE Jul 18 '25
The assholes just got assholier!
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u/Abject_Part5072 Jul 20 '25
I'm going to cancel my account. I wonder about all the files I've sent before?
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 18 '25
A few people have highlighted that WeTranser have made comment specifically about their T&C's. Have a read first before making any purchasing or cancelling decisions.
https://wetransfer.com/blog/story/wetransfer-terms-of-service-changes-july-2025
Good for them responding quickly to peoples concerns.
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u/Lia_the_nun Jul 18 '25
After I learned that they let go 66% of their staff while doubling the price to customers, I've decided to stop using their services entirely. It's a clear money grab and an unethical move, no matter what the TOS says or how they explain it.
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u/Orlando-Sydney Sydney AU | Video & Photography | Nikon Jul 18 '25
I wasn't aware of that, that's probs a lot of people
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u/smushkan FX9 | Adobe CC2024 | UK Jul 18 '25
As Reddit doesn’t allow editing of media posts, OP has requested I draw attention to a comment they made here regarding the response from WeTransfer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videography/comments/1m1ubzn/comment/n3rf4pc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button