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> and Github, for their part, cravenly pulled the code as part of DMCA request. That's a very weirdly-opinionated statement. Isn't GitHub legally required to obey the DMCA request?
I have never heard the term "American" programmer. Why?
> and Github, for their part, cravenly pulled the code as part of DMCA request. That's a very weirdly-opinionated statement. Isn't GitHub legally required to obey the DMCA request?
Yep. Part of DMCA safe harbor is that you have to pull it down for a couple weeks, regardless of frivolity.
Thejesh has accused Indian Airtel and Flash Networks Layer8 of something that may be a crime (depending on the particulars of Indian law) and is definitely a scandal. Specifically, the accusation is that Flash Networks Layer8 wrote a piece of malicious software and that Airtel injected it into customers' network connections. Thejesh republished the injected script on GitHub.
Flash Networks sent a nasty letter to GitHub asking them to take down the evidence, claiming that their malicious software is copyrighted. GitHub complied.
I have never heard the term "American" programmer. Why?
Are you in the US and/or consuming primarily American media sources? I'd imagine the term might be more common in articles written in India and the term Indian programmer more common in articles written in the US.
It's not really a big deal but why do they need to say Indian programmer as apposed to just a programmer?
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Yep. Part of DMCA safe harbor is that you have to pull it down for a couple weeks, regardless of frivolity.
Google rejects many DMCA requests, does that mean they aren't covered under safe harbor?
I have never heard the term "American" programmer. Why?
So a U.S.-based press outlet might write this:
"The Game of Thrones cast includes British actors Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke"
But a U.S.-based press outlet would probably not write this, because it is assumed their audience is American and the "default" nationality is American unless stated otherwise:
"The cast of Seinfeld includes American actors Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus"
In the case of the OP, TechCrunch is an American based outlet with a heavily American-skewed audience. If this case involved an American programmer who exposed the flaw, it might not be in the headline, but it would likely be stated in the body text since the story deals with two foreign-owned entities and the readers could likely be curious about the affiliation of the programmer.