Title is some click-bait, github didn’t stole your code, somebody else did and posted it at github.
You will have to fill DMCA and if they don’t take it down then claim github stole it.
My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
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Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#12I'm not precisely sure why original author blames "corporate internet" here. Mr-Steal-Your-Script likely shared it to GitHub because that's convenient, but in the absence of a GitHub, they would post it to their own server, ignore his requests to take it down, and he'd be in the same boat he's in now: hire a lawyer to attempt to assert his rights.
The underlying principle---legal representation costs money even if you're in the right---would still hold.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It costs money. Many people rely on the fact that lawyers are expensive as a defacto deterrent from legal action.
And if GitHub required a person who posted code legitimately and was subject to vexatious interference from fake copyright claims to hire a lawyer, it would cost that person money. Safe harbor doesn't give much guidance to hosting companies about who needs to hire the lawyer, other than to note that if they try to practice law by adjudicating these cases themselves, they're on the hook to hire the lawyer.
The user’s name is Mr Steal Your Script.
The right approach in this case is not to waste money on a lawyer (or expect some lawyer to work pro Bono).
The right approach is to post about it publicly and bring shame upon GitHub for being the literal jar or of a Mr Steal Your Script. is
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#14It's not GitHub who stole the code, it's a GitHub user who published it there against the licensing terms. While I do share the author's frustration with the fact that GitHub does zero fact checking, my concerns go entirely in the other direction: much of the internet now works in such a way that a DMCA takedown notice will effectively remove any content someone doesn't want out there. I do understand why platforms d…
A world where the true author of software(or anything) can't get it taken down when it has been stolen isn't great.
Company's should be held responsible. If you are allowing a vehicle for theft, you need to have reasonable anti-theft procedures in place. We can't let corporations deny their own responsibility here.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#15Github didn’t steal anything. Some random person downloaded the code and posted it on github without its copyright notice. And Github’s DMCA takedown process is pretty much the same as everybody else’s.
This is an unhappy story, but really, how would you like things to work? Github isn’t in the business of adjudicating copyright ownership, nor should it be.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#16Title is some click-bait, github didn’t stole your code, somebody else did and posted it at github. You will have to fill DMCA and if they don’t take it down then claim github stole it.
Try reading the title again. He never asserts that Github stole his code, neither in the title, nor elsewhere.
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#17> GitHub apparently follows this process exactly--without any deviation. GitHub does zero investigation to determine who is in the right--even in a case as obvious as this. Mr-Steal-Your-Script's user name alone should be enough to let GitHub know who owns the code. During this entire process, GitHub communicated with me entirely by computer-generated responses. I never had an opportunity to explain the situation to an actual human being. So, if I wish to pursue this matter further, it seems that I have no choice but to hire a lawyer.
So GitHub follows the legal process set out for hosting services? Umm, yeah. No shit. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to.
> I do not even have the option of suing Mr-Steal-Your-Script to pay my lawyer's fees, because he is anonymous. As blatant as his theft was, I have to assume that he has covered his tracks well enough to remain anonymous.
GitHub should have provided you with his counter-notice including contact information. If they've accepted a clearly invalid counter-notice then you can sue them.
Otherwise, yeah, this guy has posted a copy of your code, and the only way to take it down is to sue him. That's how copyright infringement usually works - it'd be the same if he were hosting it in ISP-provided webspace, or his own personal site, or printed it out on a physical billboard he owns. I don't know why you see this as being about "the Corporate Internet" at all.
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#18Title is some click-bait, github didn’t stole your code, somebody else did and posted it at github. You will have to fill DMCA and if they don’t take it down then claim github stole it.
Try reading the title again. He never asserts that Github stole his code, neither in the title, nor elsewhere.
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Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#19Title is some click-bait, github didn’t stole your code, somebody else did and posted it at github. You will have to fill DMCA and if they don’t take it down then claim github stole it.
Go read the article
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#20The title is quite misleading, make one think that GitHub actively stole someone's code, which is not true.
I understand the pain of the developer and the fact that GitHub is not doing anything. But, imagine if GitHub had to act on each of these disputes? Besides probably the sheer amount of requests, I can bet that at some point they would give side to the copier and then it would end-up on the news as well.