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Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA

• chii 2y ago
  This is the most bullshit DMCA takedown i've seen. > How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures? > For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content. How is using web archive considered DMCA circumvention?
  • mrinfinitiesx 2y ago
    It's considered controversial 'oh shit' territory for Github and they made a quick and concise action based on fear rather than having a spine about it.
    • chii 2y ago
      it is the (correct) github response to DMCA, then let the dispute process happen. I don't own the repo, but i do hope the owners of the repo dispute it, because the takedown has no real leg to stand on.
      • compuguy 2y ago
        Doesn't really matter. It's moved to a Russian Github clone, so YMMV: https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234 https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234
• compuguy 2y ago
  Duplicate of a previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294166