> Blackmail is a valid explanation if you don't have another more powerful recourse. But they do, they can just report them to the law. As other commenters hav

> Blackmail is a valid explanation if you don't have another more powerful recourse. But they do, they can just report them to the law. As other commenters have pointed out on GitHub, Muse does not appear to have a legal leg to stand on. If they did, they would have simply sent a DMCA takedown notice a long time ago — but that would require Muse to swear under penalty of perjury that they believe the content is really infringing, and they must know it isn’t. So instead they’re making scary threats and hoping to spook the developer into taking down the repository himself. As you put it, they “don't have another more powerful recourse” and so they’re making threats that they can’t actually follow through on.