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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
#32Instead of complaining online, should author not reach out to the EFF? I honestly don't know what remedy I'd have if this happened to me.
Or just file a DMCA?
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#33Sadly, this is corporate America these days. We are living in the Cyberpunk future where corporations have the upper hand and are not required to provide an actual reasonable human to investigate or pass judgement on your issue. You see it with the algos that run user interfacing parts of Youtube, Facebook regularly. It's messed up. I'm sorry your code got stolen.
There's plenty of problems with corporate control of the Internet, but this here ain't one. This is, in fact, one of those situations where the DMCA does a good job.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#34I've never done it, but I don't think you need a lawyer to file a DMCA takedown request. It's not that hard to do.
Is there any reason for him not just do it, or that you'd need legal counsel? Thinking it through, I suppose theoretically you might worry that if you did it wrong you could get in legal trouble, but a) this guy is positive he owns the copyright to this thing it's not any kind of grey area, b) even those who totally file DMCA takedowns under bad faith never ever ever get penalized for it, like nobody ever has been penalized for filing a DMCA in bad faith I don't think? (This is not a good thing, but is in this guy's favor here). And again, this one would definitely not be in bad faith.
Just fill out a DMCA takedown request and send it to github? It's not that hard, you can definitely find a template and fill it out within a very unhurried couple hours max with a couple coffee breaks in there. You don't need a lawyer.
I know HN loves to hate Github, but you can't get mad at them both for taking things down when those claiming copyright ask them to, and also for not doing so unless someone actually follows the proper (pretty simple and not very burdensome) procedure.
The OP sounds like he's mad that the world is not entirely arranged in his favor to cater to his personal needs, and this is somehow a new realization for him.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try reading the title again. He never asserts that Github stole his code, neither in the title, nor elsewhere.
Reread and is still misleading. Github, the corporate entity, did not steal anyone's code. It is complying with United States safe harbor law for a hosting service.
"Github has my stolen code".
Do you understand this sentence? Shall I diagram it for you?
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, this whole blog post goes from bad to worse. > I have to assume that he has covered his tracks well enough to remain anonymous. No you don't. John Doe lawsuits exist. You would be on the hook for legal and possibly detective fees, but if you start a legal process GitHub can be compelled to turn over what records they have about the perpetrator. > Thanks to my experience with Mr-Steal-Your-Script, I am serio…
That's a bit disingenuous. Asserting their rights over software they wrote that was blatantly stolen doesn't make them a bad person, as you seem to be implying.
Not at all bad person.
Just not a person that I can assume won't slap me with a takedown notice if they don't like the context in which I share their work. I don't have time to want to bother to deal with takedown notices, and it's a wide, wonderful internet with all kinds of other information I could be sharing. The safest course of action for me is to skip it.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#37Flagged for misleading title.
Accurate title: "Someone shared my copyrighted code, and GitHub used software instead of a human to arbitrate".
Not as interesting or unexpected. None of the major platforms for user-generated content could possibly review every claim with human time.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, this whole blog post goes from bad to worse. > I have to assume that he has covered his tracks well enough to remain anonymous. No you don't. John Doe lawsuits exist. You would be on the hook for legal and possibly detective fees, but if you start a legal process GitHub can be compelled to turn over what records they have about the perpetrator. > Thanks to my experience with Mr-Steal-Your-Script, I am serio…
You responded to yourself? Why?
Additional thoughts expanding on my first post but disjoint enough from it to merit their own sub-thread.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#39I've never done it, but I don't think you need a lawyer to file a DMCA takedown request. It's not that hard to do. Is there any reason for him not just do it, or that you'd need legal counsel? Thinking it through, I suppose theoretically you might worry that if you did it wrong you could get in legal trouble, but a) this guy is positive he owns the copyright to this thing it's not any kind of grey area, b) even those…
In this case, the author did submit a DMCA takedown request, but the Github user then submitted a DMCA counter notification stating that, under penalty of perjury, they have a good faith believe that the takedown is invalid.
As I understand it (and I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice), the only next step available is to use the US court system to sue for copyright infringement and perjury.
Re: My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
#40I've never done it, but I don't think you need a lawyer to file a DMCA takedown request. It's not that hard to do. Is there any reason for him not just do it, or that you'd need legal counsel? Thinking it through, I suppose theoretically you might worry that if you did it wrong you could get in legal trouble, but a) this guy is positive he owns the copyright to this thing it's not any kind of grey area, b) even those…
He's in the lawyer phase now because Mr-steal-your-script contested the takedown he filed.