4 ms·
If this was a youtube channel takedown people would be mad at Google, but good to see at least here HN is blaming the bad actors like they should - ie. the copy
by seaman1921 5y ago
If this was a youtube channel takedown people would be mad at Google, but good to see at least here HN is blaming the bad actors like they should - ie. the copyright laws and its abusers.
- maweki 5y agoPeople are mad at google for _automatic_ takedowns, as they enable bad actors and are arguably not in the spirit of the law. In this case here, github does not employ an overzealous automated system. This is a manual DMCA claim and the issuer is the single actor here, who could be to blame.
- judge2020 5y agoPeople got mad at Google for automatically honoring DMCA takedowns, which is what GitHub is doing, as they both have to if they want to maintain not being legally liable. Content ID is also a system people are mad with but has nothing to do with DMCA besides Google saying 'pretty please only enroll content you own into Content ID'.
- maweki 5y agoFor github this is not an automated process, nor is the policy based on a presumption of guilt: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/dmca-takedown-policy#a-how-does-this-actually-work https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/dmca-takedown-...
- judge2020 5y agoAssuming the claimant doesn’t mess up the complaint it might as well be automated - GH has only voluntarily not honored a request once with YouTube-dl (that I’m aware of) and that still was after YT-dl removed the README reference of using it to download music videos.
- matsemann 5y agoDifference is that Github follows DMCA practices, while YouTube has their homemade system that bans you without a fair way of appealing.
- dan-robertson 5y agoGoogle have their own system for copyright claims which people get mad about. GitHub follows the DMCA laws which they have to follow. I put it to you that your implied claim that these situations are basically the same is false.