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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 16-Nov-2020 20:07:39 UTC Software Freedom Conservancy

ICYMI: Late last week, #GitHub processed another §1201 #DMCA takedown of a #FOSS project; we made a proposal for change about how #copyright enforcement gets done in https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/ … We hope to see this story widely discussed, as DMCA attacks continue.
In conversation Monday, 16-Nov-2020 20:07:39 UTC from mastodon.technology permalink
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1. A Modest Proposal In The New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression
  
  Just two weeks ago, my colleague Denver posted a criticism of Microsoft's GitHub for its capitulation to the RIAA takedown notice — which alleged, with specious evidence, that youtube-dl violated 17 USC § 1201. Frankly, this is the kind of behavior we'd expect from the RIAA — an organization controlled in recent decades by two dudes who seem to have helped write § 1201. No one is surprised when the RIAA attacks FOSS projects.
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.

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