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by dustinmoris 2618 days ago
I don't know what to make of this, but this all feels like a deliberate attempt to damage this company.

Here are some interesting things I noticed:

- GitHub has a lot of DMCAs each month and going through them it seems that all repos have been taken down by GitHub, but in this case the entire source code is still online despite it being posted here on HN for hours now and after they have been notified.

- None of the other DMCAs (some of them really interesting) have ever trended on HN

- The above linked repo has been forked more than 5k times, which is so much more than what any other DMCA reported repo has been ever forked from what I could see

- The repo with the source code put a link to https://996.icu in the description

- The person who posted the DMCA here on HN seems to be a new user who has only posted or commented on topics related to 996. Potentially the person/group has also gamed HN to get this link to the front page

There is no proof, but it feels like there is a very coordinated and deliberate attempt to harm Bilibili which is kind of sad.

2 comments

The only sad thing here is a fraudulent DMCA takedown for a trademark violation.
What harm? It's nice to have the source.