Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/08/2024-08-09-news-media-alliance.md

by chii • 2 years ago

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chii2• 2 years ago

This is the most bullshit DMCA takedown i've seen.

How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures?
For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content.

How is using web archive considered DMCA circumvention?

mrinfinitiesx• 2 years ago

It's considered controversial 'oh shit' territory for Github and they made a quick and concise action based on fear rather than having a spine about it.

chii2• 2 years ago

it is the (correct) github response to DMCA, then let the dispute process happen.

I don't own the repo, but i do hope the owners of the repo dispute it, because the takedown has no real leg to stand on.

compuguy2• 2 years ago

Duplicate of a previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294166

Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA

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