Not everyone likes Dropship

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110425/15541514030/dropbox-tries-to-kill-off-open-source-project-with-dmca-takedown.shtml

by jstreebin • 15 years ago

9 6 15 years ago

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mrkurt• 15 years ago

As far as I can tell, this story is suffering severely from the telephone effect.

Some points:

1) As I understand it, Dropbox didn't remove the file, they removed public access to it. The file was still in the account, on attached computers, etc.

2) There was no DMCA takedown notice, there was an accidental notification sent to a user saying "we've received a takedown notice and acted on it". Dropbox didn't actually send anyone a formal takedown notice.

wladimir2• 15 years ago

Oh man can this die please... Why is techcrunch simply recycling a blog post, without taking its latter corrections into account.

arashf• 15 years ago

I know - right? :-).

(wladimir wrote dropship)

yid• 15 years ago

Techcrunch/Techdirt simply recycling a misleading, provocative headline for pageviews? Color me shocked, shocked.

wladimir2• 15 years ago

Yeah :-)

I never expected it to get out of hand like this.

Queue29• 15 years ago

This article is garbage.

Not everyone likes Dropship

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