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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'm guessing they reject obviously spurious and incomplete/ill-formed ones.
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?
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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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.
I am in India. Never heard American programmer. Maybe Indian media doesn't cover much tech.
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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?
(Sometimes the DMCA agents screw up even worse. For instance, there's evidence that some of them forget important keywords sometimes, and end up issuing a takedown on all the top links for searches like "download".)
> 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?
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(Edit: Alternatively, content can enter the public domain if all copyrights on it have expired. But that's certainly not the case here either.)
> 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?
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Publishing or delivering it on request doesn't make it public domain.
Here is one definition of public domain: the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
Brief summary: 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…
I have never heard the term "American" programmer. Why?
The guys that were from Russia and tried on wall street were referred as Russians too.