Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user’s account. https://twitter.com/darrellwhitelaw/status/450096476060794880 As of this afternoon, it’s seen just shy of 3 thousand retweets. What was going on? Was Dropbox suddenly doing something sketchy? Were they suddenly lurking around their users’ folders, digging fo
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