[meibo]

I was mentioning this last time MuseScore appeared on HN - their CEO gave some insight in the comments on how this came to be.

Seems to boil down to "music publishing mafia didn't like it", which is understandable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825533

[matkoniecz]

This does not excuse

> Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

part

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...

Especially given that person making threats appears to be from Russia and target in China.

[coldtea]

It's not like he's reporting them to the Gestapo for termination.

He's reporting them to the police of a country for a copyright complaint. The fact that the country is China doesn't mean anything ominous.

Besides the "state persecution" thing, there's regular police and court work in China, every day, for 1.6 billion people, and millions of criminal, civic, business disputes, and other such cases, which is where this will fall into.

That it's China probably makes it even lighter, not harder, since copyright abuses there are seen much more lightly than in the west.