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bet you a dollar that they were taken down because they were sharing links to content they had created for Rick and Morty etc and Dropbox’s dumb algo just didn’

• heretogetout 4y ago
  If that's the case surely they could have told him that was the reason. Otherwise we're talking about software engineers deliberately writing code to waste other people's time and make the Dropbox product look worse to their customers or prospective customers.
  • AlexandrB 4y ago
    > Otherwise we're talking about software engineers deliberately writing code to waste other people's time and make the Dropbox product look worse to their customers or prospective customers. Seems true-to-form. This has been Dropbox's product strategy for the last 5 years.
• kmeisthax 4y ago
  Dropbox only hashes files that they've gotten DMCA takedowns for. So WB told Dropbox "do not allow people to share Rick & Morty", and then got angry because they couldn't share Rick & Morty internally. This isn't a false positive, the algorithm is working exactly as intended.
  • sleepybrett 4y ago
    except they should have notified their customer of the dmca violations on their account, if they did not .. that would run afoul of the dmca, right?
    • kmeisthax 4y ago
      Yes, because you need to be able to counternotify; this is why I was a little suspicious of the "it's a copyright problem" explanation. However, if they had ignored prior notices and continued infringing, then Dropbox needs to shut off their account because they're a repeat infringer, and that process might just look the same as any other TOS violation ban.