Not everyone likes Dropship

Posted by jstreebin on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:30AM
from the techdirt.com dept.

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

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Re:Not everyone likes Dropship by mrkurt on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:11PM (#2485867)

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.

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Re:Not everyone likes Dropship by wladimir on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:12PM (#2485878)

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

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Re:Not everyone likes Dropship by arashf on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:51PM (#2486076)

I know - right? :-).

(wladimir wrote dropship)

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Re:Not everyone likes Dropship by yid on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @01:02PM (#2486136)

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

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Re:Not everyone likes Dropship by wladimir on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @01:27PM (#2486253)

Yeah :-)

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

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Re:Not everyone likes Dropship by Queue29 on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:35PM (#2486014)

This article is garbage.

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