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0942v8653 on May 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I'm wiping this repository away”

Seems they've already tried a DMCA request:

https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/fd07b49a459cda25...

... and it didn't work, causing only "brief downtime", probably because it didn't actually fall under the DMCA.

pluma on May 21, 2015 [–]

What I don't understand is that in theory filing invalid DMCA takedown requests is an actual crime -- yet nobody ever seems to go after companies that do it.

Just another reason the DMCA is fundamentally broken.

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