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I can see why Dropbox would be upset about the existence of such a thing, but trying to force people to take it down seems incredibly foolish. The whole issue w

I can see why Dropbox would be upset about the existence of such a thing, but trying to force people to take it down seems incredibly foolish. The whole issue will garner them negative publicity and people will see it anyways thanks to the Streisand effect. I had actually missed the original post, but now thanks to their takedown attempts I've downloaded a copy for myself as its very interesting.

cabalamat 15y ago
> trying to force people to take it down seems incredibly foolish As does the fake DMCA takedown. If Arash Ferdowsi wants people to think he's dishonest, he's going the right way about it.
- Goronmon 15y ago
  There was no DMCA takedown notice.
  - bigiain 15y ago
    That's not what Dropbox say: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482803 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482803 (admittedly, several hours after you posted)
    - ugh 15y ago
      There was no takedown notice. Those emails (erroneously) informed the recipient that a third party had sent a takedown request.
apgwoz 15y ago
Since when is any publicity ever bad? Isn't this Marketing 101?
- burgerbrain 15y ago
  Yeah, I wish I had a time machine so I could go pick up some SCO stock.
  - apgwoz 15y ago
    Assume for a moment that this makes the nightly news. How many people in "average joe" America who don't know about Dropbox will checkout it out and say, "oh man, this is useful! and they even have a free account!" Do they care about this DMCA garbage, or what Dropbox actually did/did not do? Maybe, but the national news won't report it correctly anyway. Here's how it might be spun: "Hackers, today, are up in arms with Dropbox. The hackers claim that the illegal files being stored there were protected by the first amendment. Dropbox claims that their service could be attacked with those files and removed them."
    - burgerbrain 15y ago
      This won't make the nightly news. This will only be reported to the types of people who 1) already know about dropbox, and 2) understand the significance of DMCA takedowns made in bad faith. Bad publicity.
      - apgwoz 15y ago
        You're right, it won't make the nightly news. But, you obviously have no imagination either.
        burgerbrain 15y ago
        In order to disprove the statement "there is no such thing as negative publicity" one merely needs to produce a circumstance where there is indeed negative publicity. This is pretty trivial to do, and doesn't require imagination.
        apgwoz 15y ago

cabalamat 15y ago

> trying to force people to take it down seems incredibly foolish As does the fake DMCA takedown. If Arash Ferdowsi wants people to think he's dishonest, he's going the right way about it.

Goronmon 15y ago
There was no DMCA takedown notice.
- bigiain 15y ago
  That's not what Dropbox say: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482803 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482803 (admittedly, several hours after you posted)
  - ugh 15y ago
    There was no takedown notice. Those emails (erroneously) informed the recipient that a third party had sent a takedown request.

apgwoz 15y ago

Since when is any publicity ever bad? Isn't this Marketing 101?

burgerbrain 15y ago
Yeah, I wish I had a time machine so I could go pick up some SCO stock.
- apgwoz 15y ago
  Assume for a moment that this makes the nightly news. How many people in "average joe" America who don't know about Dropbox will checkout it out and say, "oh man, this is useful! and they even have a free account!" Do they care about this DMCA garbage, or what Dropbox actually did/did not do? Maybe, but the national news won't report it correctly anyway. Here's how it might be spun: "Hackers, today, are up in arms with Dropbox. The hackers claim that the illegal files being stored there were protected by the first amendment. Dropbox claims that their service could be attacked with those files and removed them."
  - burgerbrain 15y ago
    This won't make the nightly news. This will only be reported to the types of people who 1) already know about dropbox, and 2) understand the significance of DMCA takedowns made in bad faith. Bad publicity.
    - apgwoz 15y ago
      You're right, it won't make the nightly news. But, you obviously have no imagination either.
      - burgerbrain 15y ago
        In order to disprove the statement "there is no such thing as negative publicity" one merely needs to produce a circumstance where there is indeed negative publicity. This is pretty trivial to do, and doesn't require imagination.
        apgwoz 15y ago