[HN Gopher] DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received a...
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       DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
        
       Author : LorenDB
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2024-10-28 19:13 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | KennyBlanken wrote:
       | No cookie for you, MS/GitHub. You're redacting so much
       | information this is a nearly worthless, token effort. Lumen will
       | provide at least some info, enough to identify DMCA abuse. For
       | example, I clicked on one of the most recent DMCA requests in
       | Lumen, filled out the captcha, and then clicked on the
       | submitter's name and...oh hey, they've submitted 100,000 DMCA
       | notices (!)...it's a DMCA mill, specializing in online porn.
       | 
       | With how Github is doing this, there's no way to tell who or what
       | was actually involved, thus impossible to verify if the DMCA
       | claim is BS or not:
       | 
       | https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/06/2024-06-1...
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       | If you're making a claim of copyright infringement, your name /
       | who you represent and the nature of the violation is not
       | "private." And further, that redacting is purely Github's
       | decision; nothing in the DMCA requires any redaction or limits
       | publishing of DMCA notices in any way.
       | 
       | ...and hilariously, GitHub rejected the counter-notice
       | because...it didn't have the right kind of contact info?
        
         | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
         | _> ...and hilariously, GitHub rejected the counter-notice
         | because...it didn 't have the right kind of contact info?_
         | 
         | I noticed that, too.
         | 
         | I'll take "Irony," for $100, Alex...
        
         | benatkin wrote:
         | The notice repo started before they got acquired, and was
         | better back then. It went from "open source almost everything"
         | (which was a half-truth, anyway) to typical BigCo stuff.
        
         | elpocko wrote:
         | >If you're making a claim of copyright infringement, your name
         | [...] is not "private."
         | 
         | I can release stuff under a pseudonym. I don't see why my real
         | name should be published just because someone else is
         | infringing on my rights.
        
           | kstrauser wrote:
           | When you're filing a legal claim against someone, they get to
           | know who's accusing them. That's only fair.
        
             | elpocko wrote:
             | Maybe the person who infringed on my rights can know. In
             | some cases, as long as my right to privacy is guaranteed to
             | be respected. That doesn't mean that the entire world is
             | entitled to know my real name via Github's issue tracker.
             | Doxxing the victim in a case like that is not "fair" at
             | all.
        
       | ayhanfuat wrote:
       | This reminded me of HackerRank's SymPy incident (HackerRank (YC
       | S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed] |
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31087175). They had taken
       | down SymPy documentation claiming SymPy plagiarized their code
       | snippets but in reality it was them using SymPy docs in their
       | questions. The request for takedown is at
       | https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/6f752b45efb10be0cb576321....
        
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