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This code is meant for censorship, not DMCA. Replacing the content with "sorry, this thing broke copyright laws" is how you deal with DMCA, not stopping people

This code is meant for censorship, not DMCA. Replacing the content with "sorry, this thing broke copyright laws" is how you deal with DMCA, not stopping people from accessing whole sites.

Grue3 11y ago
That's what I was thinking as well. DMCA is just an excuse. Github already blocked content at the request of Russian government, and I'm sure they will block more stuff that they're not legally required to remove in the future.
- nixgeek 11y ago
  Er, citation required? IME they do what's required by U.S. law and have previously been fairly principled about not complying with extrajudicial requests.
  - Grue3 11y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Russia
edent 11y ago
It is not! Read the RFC - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725 - helpfully entitled "An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles." Those obstacles could be censorship, or copyright infringement, or illegal mathematics - anything.