[tpmx]

Microsoft is running Github Legal now. It's on them. They happen to have a very long experience in shutting down third party access to unofficial APIs. (There was a lot of drama around this in the 80s, in the MS-DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 times.)

[WillPostForFood]

That’s not really how it works. If you claim DMCA protection, and you receive a DMCA request, you have to take the content down. GitHub/Microsoft doesn’t adjudicate the validity of the takedown request. The takedown can be appealed, but the burden falls on the person who’s content was taken down.

[basch]

Companies could choose to assess the validity of the claim, they just don't for practical purposes.

[tpmx]

That's dumb. I actually didn't realize it was this broken until now. Thanks.

[cortesoft]

Now? The DMCA came out 22 years ago.

[Mirioron]

Every day people learn new things that others think is common knowledge.

[cortesoft]

Whoops, I read the person I was responding to as saying "it has gotten worse now", not that they just realize it now. Didn't mean to shame someone for not knowing something!

[tpmx]

Or, as it were, when you were writing this commment: Shamed for knowing something.

[tpmx]

Turns out I was right though.