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by overshard 4847 days ago
This was a big article already not even two days ago on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766

Why is this being upvoted a 2nd time in the same week to the top of the homepage...

2 comments

because they actually took it down.
It was actually down at the time of that post too. I know because I was using Flat UI in a new project and had to ditch their vector illustrations which were the items in question from this DMCA.
I was not aware from the original post that the project had actually been taken down, and now thanks to pyre's comment I know a bit more about how the DMCA takedown process works. It seems to me that the process is quite vulnerable to Denial-of-service attacks, as demonstrated by the case in question.
They took it down, but you used to get a 404 when you visited the repo. This is the first time that it explicitly says that a DMCA request was executed.
No, I definitely had the DMCA notice when I tried it two days ago.

I remember because I was trying to get it not having heard of the takedown, and it wasn't working, and, after getting to the page, saw the notice.

Why not? Seriously.