[dcow]

I’d love to hear from the copyright owner (the repo owner). According to github they were contacted and offered legal support. Why didn't they take it or investigate and challenge the notice? I could see how it would be easy to think “welp I help people remove DRM for archival and interoperability purposes and I got a DMCA notice it’s over”. I wonder if the EFF would be interested in lending support.

[gnopgnip]

> Why didn't they take it or investigate and challenge the notice?

Because they would lose their safe harbor protection under the DMCA, and could be sued directly by the rights holder. And because this work probably is in violation of the anti circumvention portion of the DMCA, so a lawsuit could be very expensive

[jethro_tell]

from his statement on mobile read, it sounds like they were given 24 hours to take that help and did not check their email in time.