You mean well, but you're mistaken on one thing. Having a registered "Agent of Record" along with contact information and a policy is required to be eligible fo

You mean well, but you're mistaken on one thing. Having a registered "Agent of Record" along with contact information and a policy is required to be eligible for "Safe Harbor" provisions. Pretty much any US-based site accepting user contributions must have them to avoid copyright infringement liability. YC/HN having all these requirements filled is entirely normal and expected, so it doesn't really tell us anything. --Heck, I'd be really worried if they didn't have all of the requirements filled. As my EDIT shows, the [dead] was due to the submission being a unnecessary duplicate post. It turned out to be a bad example for the real question in the title. Mentioning the [dead] post wasn't a complaint, instead, it was just an example that led to the question in the title of whether or not HN has received any DMCA takedown notices. The follow-on question of whether or not PG/YC would be willing to publish any received DMCA notices on ChillingEffects.org is also viable. In spite of the poor example link I picked, they're still good questions to ask publicly and it seems a lot of people are curious about the answers. None the less, you are still correct about emailing info@ycombinator being the right way to handle questions about stuff that gets moderated/deleted/edited. (BTW over the last half decade I've sent in more than enough private bug reports directly to pg with my phone number included so he could contact me. I probably have some minimal "good will" stored up and I sincerely doubt he'd hell-ban me or anyone for a poor choice of example links.)