That's actually sort of how NPM works currently, they mentioned that that's exactly how they would solve kik situation, by giving them new version of the packag

That's actually sort of how NPM works currently, they mentioned that that's exactly how they would solve kik situation, by giving them new version of the package: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm "Had Azer taken no action, Kik would have published a new version of kik and everyone depending upon Azer’s package could have continued to find it."