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Well, you can, but that would be fraudulent. But whoever you sent the DMCA takedown notice to, it's not their concern and not their duty to check whether you're
by _ak 12y ago
Well, you can, but that would be fraudulent. But whoever you sent the DMCA takedown notice to, it's not their concern and not their duty to check whether you're the rightful copyright holder or not.
- dmd 12y agoDoes this mean that someone could take down all of github by sending (fraudulent) DMCA takedown notices for every single repo (from some fake return address)? And then it would then be incumbent on the users to fight that?
- stefan_kendall3 12y agoYes. But in that case, GitHub would likely fight an obviously fraudulent copyright claim, as it would wreck their business. They're not hurt at all by popcorntime going down.
- derefr 12y agoI don’t know, they seem to be being hurt a bit in the eyes of developers right here in this discussion.
- emmett 12y agoNo. The main requirement for a DMCA request to be valid is that it come from a real entity. If you sent them with a fake return address they wouldn't be valid DMCA requests anymore. That said, yes the DMCA can be abused. The check against that is the same check that exists against other kinds of fraud: it's illegal.