[HN Gopher] After YouTube-dl incident, GitHub's DMCA process now...
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After YouTube-dl incident, GitHub's DMCA process now includes free
legal help
Author : MilnerRoute
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-07-31 16:27 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| neatze wrote:
| I am still in denial, that company such as Microsoft seems like
| so far genuinely embarrassing open source community.
| [deleted]
| seized wrote:
| What?
| manquer wrote:
| OP probably meant embracing not embarrassing
| type0 wrote:
| sometimes their efforts do look embarrassing
| curiousmindz wrote:
| GitHub's announcement:
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| https://github.blog/2021-07-27-github-developer-rights-fello...
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| "GitHub's Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal
| support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle
| appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the
| software ecosystem." (at no cost to the developers)
| tluyben2 wrote:
| Microsoft messed up a lot but they are doing a lot of cool things
| for quite a few years now. It it hard to believe they converted
| but it makes a lot of business sense: keeps devs happy, make
| software for major platforms, keep pushing into businesses. The
| giving away creates enough goodwill to forget the crap of before
| and not get the blowback on the (good or bad) closed source
| software. It is like Gates Foundation: you know it's tax write-
| offs or whatever negative spin someone wants to give to it: it is
| money to good causes that otherwise is not there. And very large
| amounts of it, in both cases IMHO.
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