github/dmca on Hacker News

…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

…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++

…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

…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

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

…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

>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

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

…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

…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

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

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

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

…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

…+ 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

…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

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

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

…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

…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

…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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

…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

…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

…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

…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?

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

…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

…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

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

I've got to admit I get a kick out of the fact that the GitHub username was "FreeSpeechEnthusiast" https://github.com/github/dmca/blame/master/2023/03/2023-03-...

comment by stusmall · 2023-03-26 · in Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online

…like they're asserting copyright on the "content," i.e. presumably the weights themselves. [0] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/03/2023-03-2...

comment by chatmasta · 2023-03-24 · in Facebook is going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's

Actual takedown notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/03/2023-03-2...

comment by ronsor · 2023-03-23 · in Meta DMCAs llama-dl Repository

…that repo (eg without using the search feature), doesn't show any likely looking candidates either: https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/master/2023/02 That being said, the most recent dated one was 23rd Feb (last Thursday), so it does seem…

comment by justinclift · 2023-02-27 · in DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub

Github posts their DMCA claims, and I'm not seeing one for iptv https://github.com/github/dmca/search?q=iptv&type=

comment by boomboomsubban · 2023-02-27 · in DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub

…publishers spiegel.de, bild.de etc. And yes, ROT-13 wouldn't be an adequate protection either. [1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...

comment by super256 · 2023-02-13 · in Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository

…request, it just was from the City of London Police and cited the aforementioned UK laws. See: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/01/2023-01-1...

comment by naturalauction · 2023-02-05 · in Pirate Bay Proxy Defeats Police’s GitHub Takedown with DMCA Counternotice

…text of DMCA is completely irrelevant. Github posts these notices in a redacted form: Notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/01/2023-01-11-piratebay.md Counter Notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/01/2023…

comment by thethirdone · 2023-01-19 · in Pirate Bay Proxy Site Challenges Police DMCA Takedown at GitHub

…takedowns. Suprisingly not Google (the original Vanced) or the MPAA (youtube-dl) this time. [0]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/12/2022-12-0... [1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/12/2022-12-0...

comment by noirscape · 2022-12-09 · in ReVanced DMCA Takedown on GitHub

There are two different DMCA claims. The other one comes from a solo dev it seems - https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/a16b28b081e2302d4212caa7... . > So let's get this right, a Swiss company abusing the fact that Github is US hosted is…

comment by that_guy_iain · 2022-12-09 · in ReVanced DMCA Takedown on GitHub

The DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/12/2022-12-0... And the complaint itself: > On GitHub at https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches there is a patch that unlocks the subscription without payment for…

comment by pitched · 2022-12-09 · in ReVanced DMCA Takedown on GitHub

…Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486887 Complaint text: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/e6911fbf79c67c6f9e834c...

comment by trynewideas · 2022-11-23 · in Atlas OS: A Windows version designed for gamers

…of GitHub that would result in a public[1] take-down notice being filed for transparency. [1] https://github.com/github/dmca

comment by roastedpeacock · 2022-08-12 · in The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun

…under the section "Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work". [1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/04/2022-04-0... [2] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/03/2022-03-1...

comment by kwertzzz · 2022-04-28 · in The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident