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Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about our DMCA policy can be found at

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

Mentions per year 337 mentions · busiest year 2020 (87)
20082026
  1. ▲ 4
    Photopea DMCA Takedown on GitHub
    story by lobito25 · 2026-10-15 · 5 comments
  2. ▲ 4
    GitHub DMCA Repository
    story by 5701652400 · 2026-06-20 · 1 comment
  3. ▲ 8
    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
  4. ▲ 4
    GitHub DMCA Notices to Anthropic Claude Code Repos
    story by alexpadula · 2026-04-01 · 6 comments
  5. ▲ 2
    Nintendo DMCA takedown for several projects on GitHub
    story by mtlebe · 2026-03-07 · 0 comments
  6. ▲ 2
    FFmpeg files DMCA takedown request against Rockchip MPP for LGPL violation
    story by csmantle · 2025-12-27 · 0 comments
  7. ▲ 1
    Apps.apple.com leaked source code DMCA Takedown
    story by LelouBil · 2025-11-06 · 0 comments
  8. ▲ 105
    DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
    story by LorenDB · 2024-10-28 · 30 comments
  9. ▲ 87
    Bypass Paywalls Add-On Takedown Notice
    story by hongspike · 2024-08-23 · 50 comments
  10. ▲ 5
    Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA
    story by chii · 2024-08-20 · 5 comments
  11. ▲ 121
    Tell HN: Chromium forks for legacy platforms are disappearing from GitHub
    story by Wowfunhappy · 2024-06-03 · 34 comments
  12. ▲ 48
    GitHub: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Yuzu Forks
    story by thunderbong · 2024-05-02 · 34 comments
  13. ▲ 4
    DMCA takedown for pymazda and node-mymazda
    story by rubenbe · 2023-10-12 · 1 comment
  14. ▲ 2
    Meta DMCA Counternotice [for LLaMA-dl]
    story by eternalban · 2023-04-30 · 1 comment
  15. ▲ 2
    2023-03-24-twitter.md
    story by lopkeny12ko · 2023-03-27 · 0 comments
  16. ▲ 9
    Facebook takes down llama-dl from GitHub via DMCA
    story by kappuchino · 2023-03-21 · 3 comments
  17. ▲ 2
    NY Times DMCA takedown request for a Wordle archive
    story by yuriko · 2022-04-28 · 0 comments
  18. ▲ 2
    Apple's internal software leaked (DMCA takedown request)
    story by schleck8 · 2022-01-15 · 1 comment
  19. ▲ 319
    noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice
    story by xxyzz · 2022-01-10 · 162 comments
  20. ▲ 341
    Hackerrank DMCA Notice
    story by captn3m0 · 2021-11-16 · 171 comments
  21. ▲ 113
    “The infringer is my alt account”
    story by EMIRELADERO · 2021-09-17 · 50 comments
  22. ▲ 2
    Analogy in EFF's letter in response to YouTube-dl DMCA takedown (2020) [pdf]
    story by busymom0 · 2021-07-18 · 0 comments
  23. ▲ 3
    DMCA/2020-01-22-facebook.md at master/DMCA
    story by Black101 · 2021-07-09 · 0 comments
  24. ▲ 3
    Re3 was banned by Take Two
    story by disinterpreter · 2021-02-20 · 2 comments
  25. ▲ 69
    RE3(reversed source code for GTA3/VC) has received a DMCA takedown from Take-Two
    story by zer0n · 2021-02-20 · 37 comments
  26. ▲ 10
    GitHub has reversed the takedown of nyaa.si code repository
    story by outloudvi · 2021-01-21 · 1 comment
  27. ▲ 580
    GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
    story by livueta · 2021-01-19 · 310 comments
  28. ▲ 1
    GitHub DMCA Takedown Notices
    story by tux · 2020-12-23 · 0 comments
  29. ▲ 1
    Letter from the EFF to GitHub's DMCA Agent re: YouTube-dl repo takedown [pdf]
    story by logifail · 2020-11-17 · 1 comment
  30. ▲ 2
    EFF's Letter to GitHub [pdf]
    story by dannyobrien · 2020-11-16 · 0 comments
  31. ▲ 679
    Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA
    story by abbe98 · 2020-11-13 · 371 comments
  32. ▲ 5
    Nat Friedman: “felt cute, might put gh source code on DMCA repo now idk”
    story by app4soft · 2020-11-04 · 2 comments
  33. ▲ 6
    GitHub Source on GitHub/Dcma
    story by andreicek · 2020-11-04 · 1 comment
  34. ▲ 1
    Base32768 encoded Timberlake on GitHub/DMCA
    story by supernihil · 2020-11-04 · 1 comment
  35. ▲ 1,098
    YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
    story by madars · 2020-10-25 · 315 comments
  36. ▲ 4,240
    YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
    story by phantop · 2020-10-23 · 1,443 comments
  37. ▲ 1
    Gorkiy: Moscow contact tracing app removed from GitHub in response to DMCA
    story by codezero · 2020-06-02 · 0 comments
  38. ▲ 3
    Facebook serves BeatSaber modding community with DMCA takedown on GitHub Repos
    story by yobananaboy · 2020-05-26 · 0 comments
  39. ▲ 3
    Elasticsearch's DMCA Takedown on Search Guard
    story by llacb47 · 2019-09-11 · 2 comments
  40. ▲ 160
    GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili
    story by counter2015 · 2019-04-24 · 110 comments
  41. ▲ 5
    Snapchat's source code was posted on GitHub
    story by vallavaraiyan · 2018-08-07 · 1 comment
  42. ▲ 1
    Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received (by GitHub)
    story by koolba · 2018-05-30 · 0 comments
  43. ▲ 2
    DMCA Requests to GitHub
    story by j32fun · 2018-05-19 · 0 comments
  44. ▲ 1
    Spotify uses DMCA to takedown spotify-dogfood (in error)
    story by abhv · 2018-03-06 · 1 comment
  45. ▲ 3
    Kiss_sdl removed under DCMA
    story by fao_ · 2017-06-28 · 0 comments
  46. ▲ 1
    Video downloader taken down by PluralSight DMCA
    story by _jomo · 2016-05-18 · 0 comments
  47. ▲ 1
    JSXBIN to JSX Converter DMCA Takedown by Adobe
    story by _jomo · 2016-03-12 · 1 comment
  48. ▲ 6
    GitHub reverses DMCA against oh-my-fish
    story by nwykes · 2016-03-03 · 1 comment
  49. ▲ 15
    Steven Penny is forcefully claiming ownership of MIT code
    story by hagbarddenstore · 2016-02-02 · 2 comments
  50. ▲ 7
    Blizzard DMCAs “Show HN: HTML5 Version of Starcraft” from Sept 2015
    story by scrollaway · 2015-10-11 · 3 comments