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Of course, if they really don't want my money, there's always libgen.
noDRM's post on MobileRead: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4187904&pos...
So this is totally bogus, again. Bonus points for the DMCA notice obviously not being written by a lawyer.
> I have taken fair use into consideration. This is always a fucking lie, and I wish we (as a community) would band together to make it more painful for giant companies to just spam DMCA takedowns as part of their DRM strategy. Ignoring the entire issue with the fact that there probably wasn't any copyrighted material in the repo to begin with and that code is speech, and speech is protected in the US - in other word…
That said, I guess it was shortsighted from the founding father but I guess at the time people would be often oppressed by governments not by neighbors and friends and I think this is something we need to solve as it's the challenge of our times
> "The following git repository contain circumvention technology that enables users to illegally access ebooks protected by copyright:" Related: GitHub's statement from the last time they removed a prominent repository to a "circumvention technology" DMCA claim: https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo... ( "Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back" ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=251…
> (2)No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that (A)is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
Although, i'm not sure if DMCA notices commonly used for infringing content also work for violations of section 1201.
> I have taken fair use into consideration. This is always a fucking lie, and I wish we (as a community) would band together to make it more painful for giant companies to just spam DMCA takedowns as part of their DRM strategy. Ignoring the entire issue with the fact that there probably wasn't any copyrighted material in the repo to begin with and that code is speech, and speech is protected in the US - in other word…
The notice didn't claim copyright violation. It claimed (accurately) that this code worked around their DRM.
> "The following git repository contain circumvention technology that enables users to illegally access ebooks protected by copyright:" Related: GitHub's statement from the last time they removed a prominent repository to a "circumvention technology" DMCA claim: https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo... ( "Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back" ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=251…
Section 1201 also makes it illegal to circumvent DRM measures or manufacture/import/provide tools that do. > (2)No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that (A)is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work prote…
noDRM's post on MobileRead: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4187904&pos...
Thanks. From the additional context in the link, it sounds like Readium might believe that this implementation is infringing on their proprietary ebook format code. I wonder if the taken down repo was a clean room implementation? If not they might have a case, if it looks similar
People shouldn't host anti-DRM stuff on any US site.
> I have taken fair use into consideration. This is always a fucking lie, and I wish we (as a community) would band together to make it more painful for giant companies to just spam DMCA takedowns as part of their DRM strategy. Ignoring the entire issue with the fact that there probably wasn't any copyrighted material in the repo to begin with and that code is speech, and speech is protected in the US - in other word…
Unfortunately the DMCA also covers technology that works around DRM, not just copyright violation. Anyone wanting to share any anti-DRM software is advised to use a non-US site; GitHub probably doesn't have a choice about things like this once someone reports it. The notice didn't claim copyright violation. It claimed (accurately) that this code worked around their DRM.
> Yes, I am the copyright holder.
You can still download the repo off archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20211231094826/https://github.co... Click the green Code button, then Download ZIP.