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It is a shame your developers allowed you to commit perjury in such an automated fashion.

With all due respect to you and your company (and while I fully support your right to invoke your TOS to take down content within your own service) I'd actually love to see one of the people you DMCA'd slam you on that aspect of this situation legally if for no other reason than to make other companies think twice (or three times) before they improperly invoke the DMCA to scare people into submission.




Go back and reread the article. The recipient of the supposed takedown notice is listed as being... dropbox.


That's interesting: how could Dropbox be the recipient if their system is automated as stated by the founders?


There's another comment that has a pretty good theory -- the form the tool uses probably has a field that asks you to fill in who requested the file(s) be removed.

(The dropbox guy already has said he used an internal tool developed to remove files, without realizing that it would send this DMCA notice notice.)




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