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by ttrn 1090 days ago
The headline is misleading: it's 900 forks of the same GitHub repository and AFAICS a DMCA of one repository also takes down its forks.

To make it more difficult to take down, they could clone and push a new repository back to GitHub without the fork relationship.

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> AFAICS a DMCA of one repository also takes down its forks

Only if specified, and no, it's not misleading, they are still individual repositories.