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Why would Microsoft stand up to a DMCA takedown from any organization to a random github repo that they can't immediately tell is being wrongly taken down? Unle
by zaarn 6y ago
Why would Microsoft stand up to a DMCA takedown from any organization to a random github repo that they can't immediately tell is being wrongly taken down? Unless you pay GitHub the legal fees, no organization would lift a finger.
- sebow 6y agoMost people don't expect Github/Gitlab/Microsoft/etc. to stand up necessarily in courts against such takedowns.They would just like at least a notification or just an appeal process.(See the mechanism that Google has in place on Youtube) Frankly this youtube-dl scandal alongside many others(ad blockers, script blockers,etc) is just one of a lengthy series of events from the dinosaurs of the internet that battle for revenue that is immensely falling. This is mostly about money and nothing else. I would also like to say that i think 95%+ of the applications of DMCA are on content that is palpable and makes sense "of taking down", not some software or code that nobody really can have a monopoly on.They therefore applied this law not in the spirit it was intended to, but in some disregarding fashion of how internet software & communications work. By the same logic any tool that is used to download/stream internet content is vulnerable, and when you take a closer look that might actually include a lot of software if not the majority of all software.