FYI, the linked article now begins with: Update: clarified that we exhaustively tried to resolve the situation amicably, but our friendly requests over multipl

FYI, the linked article now begins with: Update: clarified that we exhaustively tried to resolve the situation amicably, but our friendly requests over multiple channels were ignored. The DMCA request was our last resort. There are more specific details a little later in the article, and the line quoted in the parent post appears to have been amended.