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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.

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

I know - right? :-).

(wladimir wrote dropship)

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

Yeah :-)

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

This article is garbage.

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