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No DMCA takedown requests were sent to GitHub. We simply nicely asked the author of Dropship to take down the link and he fully understood our position and took
by arashf 15y ago
No DMCA takedown requests were sent to GitHub. We simply nicely asked the author of Dropship to take down the link and he fully understood our position and took the code down.
The only erroneous use of DMCA was when we attempted to take down the link on Dropbox, which was an entirely honest mistake.
- kunjaan 15y ago"He requested that I not only remove the archive from Dropbox but delete my posts on Hacker News, which at that point included the fake DMCA takedown." What you tried to do there is censor and resorted to fake legal repercussions. You can brush it aside saying that it was a mistake but it is still uncool for a corporation to do that to an individual.
- rorrr 15y agoI'm pretty sure sending fake DMCA requests is illegal, and it doesn't matter if it's a mistake.
- rprasad 15y agoIt's illegal only if it was intentional. A mistakenly sent DMCA request is okay, as long as the sender follows up with a disregard notice.
- shadowpwner 15y agoWas it?
- ugh 15y agoThere were no takedown requests. The whole discussion is moot.
- rubyrescue 15y agobut what he's saying is he sent a notice of a DMCA takedown, not an actual takedown request.
- marshray 15y agoI see. So the comment on the razorfast.com site: I forked Dropship, just in case, and my GitHub repo of it was deleted. I was not notified of this. NOT happy with DropBox, and ESPECIALLY not happy with GitHub. Is perhaps not accurate then.
- phaylon 15y agoSince the original dropship repo mentioned on razorfast is still available (and has a pull request waiting), and the comment didn't really contain any context, I wouldn't give it much weight yet.
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