{"id":35116,"date":"2022-02-24T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35116"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:25:57","slug":"google-drive-flags-ds_store-files-for-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/google-drive-flags-ds_store-files-for-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive Flags .DS_Store Files for Copyright Infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/02\/19\/google-drive-users-stung-by-macos-dsstore-copyright-infringement-issue\">Malcolm Owen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/appleinsider\/status\/1495165168912941057\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=30404587\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/02\/19\/google-drive-users-stung-by-macos-dsstore-copyright-infringement-issue\"><p>Users of Google Drive can potentially receive an email warning that a file of theirs &ldquo;violates Google Drive&rsquo;s Terms of Service,&rdquo; specifically its copyright infringement policy. However, it appears that Google&rsquo;s automated file scanning system has deemed a fairly common file as a false positive. \n<\/p><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DataHoarder\/comments\/su3yur\/google_drive_now_flagging_my_illicit_ds_store\/\">posts<\/a> to Reddit, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/google-drive-flags-macos-ds-store-files-for-copyright-violation\/\">reported<\/a> by <em>Bleeping Computer<\/em>, the system is being tripped up by &ldquo;.DS_Store.&rdquo; Specific to macOS, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.DS_Store\">.DS_Store<\/a> holds custom attributes relating to the folder it is contained within. \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/google-drive-incorrectly-flags-file-for-copyright-infringement\/\">Google Drive Incorrectly Flags File for Copyright Infringement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Owen (tweet, Hacker News): Users of Google Drive can potentially receive an email warning that a file of theirs &ldquo;violates Google Drive&rsquo;s Terms of Service,&rdquo; specifically its copyright infringement policy. However, it appears that Google&rsquo;s automated file scanning system has deemed a fairly common file as a false positive. In posts to Reddit, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-24T20:25:59Z","apple_news_api_id":"e65aa484-2368-4a2c-b657-e56729d192d0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-24T20:26:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5lqkhCNoSiy2V-VnKdGS0A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,167,1432,30,2077],"class_list":["post-35116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-copyright","tag-google-drive","tag-mac","tag-macos-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35117,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions\/35117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}