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337 mentions on Hacker News by 293 people: 90 stories, 247 comments · first 2011-01-29 · latest 2026-10-15

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  1. ▲ 4
    Photopea DMCA Takedown on GitHub
    story by lobito25 · 2026-10-15 · 5 comments
  2. …code or other contact you've been in touch with? As for DMCA filings, we publish all of them here: https://github.com/github/dmca I see two from Photopea, one from 2022 ( https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d97814f268e07e62aabe8b5c... )…
    comment by summarity · 2026-10-07 · in Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
  3. …use. As for Nintendo, I guess you missed that they throw gigantic DCMAs at GitHub all the time? [1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-2...
    comment by shakna · 2026-09-21 · in Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
  4. …curl_cffi TLS impersonation, fake headers, request jitter, and reverse-engineered GraphQL queries. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/b2c88bad7dd771dc7d1842ff...
    comment by embedding-shape · 2026-09-14 · in XCancel service is suspended until further notice
  5. …full access to it, its author having merely archived it out of caution. No reference to nitter in https://github.com/github/dmca/
    comment by amiga386 · 2026-09-14 · in XCancel service is suspended until further notice
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    GitHub DMCA Repository
    story by 5701652400 · 2026-06-20 · 1 comment
  7. BYD DMCAd my whole repo to connect to their cars... https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/05/2026-05-2... It's a shame these car makers are locking down their cars (which are brought for a premium!) and going on a crusade against…
    comment by NiekvdMaas · 2026-05-29 · in Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
  8. …now the company that stole/not stole the code originally claims they own the algorithmic output. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-3... One problem, you don't own that output. Either the original authors own it or…
    comment by panny · 2026-05-21 · in AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
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    I built a free open-source Mac app and got DMCA'd for using Apple's public APIs
    story by soulsniper · 2026-04-02 · 4 comments
  10. >Did they actually? Yes. https://x.com/theo/status/2039411851919057339 https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-3... https://github.com/nirholas/claude-code
    comment by mannicken · 2026-04-02 · in The Claude Code Leak
  11. This was followed the next day by a partial retraction: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/04/2026-04-0... The original applied to "8.1K" repositories, and now the partial retraction means they're only taking down one repo…
    comment by thamer · 2026-04-01 · in GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos
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    GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos
    story by alexpadula · 2026-04-01 · 6 comments
  13. …who have contributed (well, what little you can contribute to their repo), is ridiculous. --- DMCA: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-3... GitHub's note at the top says: "Note: Because the reported network that…
    comment by stbenjam · 2026-04-01 · in The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
  14. …notice against the entire network of 8.1K repositories, inclusive of the parent repository. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-3...
    comment by cg505 · 2026-03-31 · in GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo
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    Nintendo DMCA takedown for several projects on GitHub
    story by mtlebe · 2026-03-07 · 0 comments
  16. Yeah, Rockchip seems to have screwed up badly but as per the GitHub DCMA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/12/2025-12-1... > ... the offending repository maintainers were informed of the problem almost 2 years ago…
    comment by justinclift · 2025-12-27 · in FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
  17. Takedown letter: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/12/2025-12-1...
    comment by Mathnerd314 · 2025-12-27 · in FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
  18. ▲ 2
    FFmpeg files DMCA takedown request against Rockchip MPP for LGPL violation
    story by csmantle · 2025-12-27 · 0 comments
  19. The DMCA notice is available here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/12/2025-12-1... The notice has a list of files and says that they were copied from ffmpeg, removed the original copyright notice, added their own and…
    comment by papercrane · 2025-12-26 · in FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
  20. …anything protected by DRM. [0] https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/s... [1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
    comment by shbooms · 2025-11-12 · in Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
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    Apps.apple.com leaked source code DMCA Takedown
    story by LelouBil · 2025-11-06 · 0 comments
  22. …+ tesseract to convert amazon books to text. So that repo also disappeared. Neither is mentioned in https://github.com/github/dmca
    comment by nlitsme · 2025-10-17 · in How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
  23. …name, but sometimes they even go after Tetris clones which don't use the name (e.g. Apotris). https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/adcac3eddac2e5555d87942d...
    comment by jsheard · 2025-05-27 · in Show HN: Lazy Tetris
  24. on a other note https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/17700 GitHub's automated auto-merged DMCA sync PRs get automated copilot reviews for every single one. AMAZING
    comment by net01 · 2025-05-19 · in GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
  25. Nintendo just shut down some Github repos for lousy DRM claims: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-2...
    comment by zoobab · 2025-03-06 · in Zentool – AMD Zen Microcode Manipulation Utility
  26. …but in reality it was them using SymPy docs in their questions. The request for takedown is at https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/6f752b45efb10be0cb576321... .
    comment by ayhanfuat · 2024-10-28 · in DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
  27. …tell who or what was actually involved, thus impossible to verify if the DMCA claim is BS or not: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/06/2024-06-1... If you're making a claim of copyright infringement, your name / who you…
    comment by KennyBlanken · 2024-10-28 · in DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
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    DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
    story by LorenDB · 2024-10-28 · 30 comments
  29. …must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down [1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/05/2024-05-3...
    comment by tjhorner · 2024-10-01 · in Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
  30. Doesn't look to be DMCA'd see here for GitHub DMCA takedowns: https://github.com/github/dmca I wonder if they went after the maintainer directly.
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2024-10-01 · in Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
  31. Not that I agree, but for future reference, they keep all their DMCAs public here: https://github.com/github/dmca
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2024-09-03 · in GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
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    Bypass Paywalls Add-On Takedown Notice
    story by hongspike · 2024-08-23 · 50 comments
  33. ▲ 5
    Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA
    story by chii · 2024-08-20 · 5 comments
  34. Yes, but it may be taken down via DMCA soon. See this DMCA request: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/08/2024-08-0... It mentions bpc_updates in the takedown request....
    comment by compuguy · 2024-08-19 · in 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
  35. Here's the actual DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/08/2024-08-0...
    comment by compuguy · 2024-08-19 · in Bypass Paywall Chrome extension taken down by DMCA request on GitHub
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    Tell HN: Chromium forks for legacy platforms are disappearing from GitHub
    story by Wowfunhappy · 2024-06-03 · 34 comments
  37. why over 8k??? The linked [dmca notice]( https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/04/2024-04-2... ) lists exactly 12 repos, not 8000. Where did they get this info from? edit: ah, the number of 8,535 is in the beginning of the notice…
    comment by plg94 · 2024-05-04 · in Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
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    GitHub: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Yuzu Forks
    story by thunderbong · 2024-05-02 · 34 comments
  39. Every DMCA takedown notice in https://github.com/github/dmca is a net win for git as a decentralized version control system, especially for repositories that require signed commits. Unfortunately, some people upload only a snapshot of…
    comment by MyFedora · 2024-04-06 · in Why Don't I Like Git More?
  40. I’m with you thus far, but I’m trying to parse the notice to see why GitHub is even complying (see https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/03/2024-03-1... ) and I think Torrentfreak got it wrong. I think they’re trying to claim…
    comment by sakjur · 2024-04-05 · in Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
  41. …takedown from Valve on all our public GitHub repositories and all its forks made by the community. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/01/2024-01-1... While we were discussing the project's future internally recently, we…
    comment by danso · 2024-01-10 · in Team Fortress:Source 2 receives DMCA takedown from Valve
  42. …ub.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic... and there are plenty of example counter-notices in the https://github.com/github/dmca repo.
    comment by greyface- · 2023-10-18 · in Mazda's DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist's smart car API tool
  43. …Anti-Circumvention Technology if you are unsure." Is that the same thing you are referencing? [1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/10/2023-10-1...
    comment by wuuza · 2023-10-13 · in Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
  44. ▲ 4
    DMCA takedown for pymazda and node-mymazda
    story by rubenbe · 2023-10-12 · 1 comment
  45. …to e.g. GitHub, which is why there is a public collection of DMCA takedown requests hosted by them: https://github.com/github/dmca To speed up this conversation: if you can think of another example where your conclusion is "but this is…
    comment by hnbad · 2023-08-22 · in Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?
  46. Takedown notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/06/2023-06-2... The tool is still available on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou and ironically, GitHub via the Wayback Machine:…
    comment by greyface- · 2023-07-14 · in Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool with DMCA Takedown
  47. …case GitHub. Also the original claim was not anonymous. The source just wasn't made public. See https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/06/2023-06-2...
    comment by viraptor · 2023-07-01 · in Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from GitHub
  48. …pull request that says in all caps "DO NOT OPEN PULL REQUESTS"). It's as painful as it sounds. [0]: https://github.com/github/dmca/pulls
    comment by internetter · 2023-05-17 · in Beware offers of “help” with your projects
  49. ▲ 2
    Meta DMCA Counternotice [for LLaMA-dl]
    story by eternalban · 2023-04-30 · 1 comment
  50. Meta is actively trying to take down publicly available copies of LLaMA: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/03/2023-03-2...
    comment by kmeisthax · 2023-04-09 · in The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT