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by orclev 3938 days ago
Yeah, you could maybe argue that DMCA is kind of heavy handed but for a change it doesn't seem to be an abuse, it's actually being used for what it was intended. In particular the fact that he went through the trouble of spelling out exactly what was being violated, gave a number of rather reasonable ways to address the violation, and provided links to replacement repos for the code in question I think shows that some time and consideration was spent on this. This wasn't just your run of the mill blanket "OMGZ MY IP!" type of DMCA request we're used to seeing from media companies and certain large corporations.