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I find it funny you haven't even bothered to read the link as it's all contained there. Is this the sort of effort you put into researching your claims? They say they are in the process of getting github back from the DMCA claim.

You must be a bitcoin developer because I can't see any reasonable person would suggest your first action in handling a situation like this is firing off a SOPA/DMCA claim for a missing mention in a text file. It's an open source project.

Did you read the link?

"On our side, we apologize for misplacing the MIT license that Bitcoin uses. A friendly reminder would all have been necessary."

They say a friendly reminder would have been enough, which implies they didn't get any notice except a DMCA take down. If SOPA was enabled right now they could have gone even further and got domain names confiscated for offenses as slight at this, a missing license.txt . It's inappropriate response from the Bitcoin developers.

I don't understand why people with money get this luxury over others.

I don't see how this helps the Bitcoin project at all, trying to shut down projects because a text file wasn't included? And with no prior contact before that? Seems like Bitcoin can't wait until SOPA is enacted to give them even more power against projects they don't like.