Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:36 PM UTC

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cmatthias wrote: post #3

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

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Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:36 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #4

cmatthias wrote: post #3

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

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Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:36 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #4

cmatthias wrote: post #3

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

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Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by arkitaip » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:37 PM UTC

What a PR disaster. There is something really wrong at Dropbox if this kind of dishonest and abusive behavior is coming from a co-founder.

Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by cmatthias » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:37 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #4

cmatthias wrote: post #3

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

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Yes, there is:

"We have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) __from Dropbox__ that the following material is claimed to be infringing."

(underscores mine)

Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by andrewjshults » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:37 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #4

cmatthias wrote: post #3

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

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The article author is the one that calls it fake. Invalid probably would probably be a better choice of words.

Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:37 PM UTC

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Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:39 PM UTC

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Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by arkitaip » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:40 PM UTC

phren0logy wrote: post #6

The author of the software stated very clearly that he was approached by the CTO of Dropbox, who asked civilly that the repo be taken down. This seems an intentional exaggeration of the issue to drive traffic. >wladimir: Arash (the CTO) asked me to, in a really civil way. So I decided to respect his wish and take down the repository. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478688

Or maybe to share code and knowledge with fellow coders and users.

Re: Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

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Post by crocowhile » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 8:40 PM UTC

adamhowell wrote: post #9

cmatthias wrote: post #3

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

Well that makes one of us who can live without Dropbox. Drew would have to kill a baby panda with an elephant tusk for me to even begin thinking about switching.

To say it all, in the past few years a number of alternative have emerged. I never bothered looking into it because I am so happy with Dropbox anyway but I bet I would find another to be happy with.

This said: I stand with dropbox on this issue. Abusing their service to fake a p2p is definitely not the way to go and not that clever hack if you ask me.