Not everyone likes Dropship(techdirt.com)
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Not everyone likes Dropship
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110425/15541514030/dropbox-tries-to-kill-off-open-source-project-with-dmca-takedown.shtml
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Oh man can this die please... Why is techcrunch simply recycling a blog post, without taking its latter corrections into account.
This article is garbage.
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.