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Microsoft is running Github Legal now. It's on them. They happen to have a very long experience in shutting down third party access to unofficial APIs. (There w
by tpmx 7y ago
Microsoft is running Github Legal now. It's on them. They happen to have a very long experience in shutting down third party access to unofficial APIs. (There was a lot of drama around this in the 80s, in the MS-DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 times.)
- WillPostForFood 7y agoThat’s not really how it works. If you claim DMCA protection, and you receive a DMCA request, you have to take the content down. GitHub/Microsoft doesn’t adjudicate the validity of the takedown request. The takedown can be appealed, but the burden falls on the person who’s content was taken down.
- tpmx 7y agoThat's dumb. I actually didn't realize it was this broken until now. Thanks.
- cortesoft 7y agoNow? The DMCA came out 22 years ago.
- Mirioron 7y agoEvery day people learn new things that others think is common knowledge.
- cortesoft 7y agoWhoops, I read the person I was responding to as saying "it has gotten worse now", not that they just realize it now. Didn't mean to shame someone for not knowing something!
- tpmx 7y agoOr, as it were, when you were writing this commment: Shamed for knowing something.
- tpmx 7y agoTurns out I was right though.
- basch 7y agoCompanies could choose to assess the validity of the claim, they just don't for practical purposes.