Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
by koheripbal on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:29AM
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...which is there was no DMCA in this situation. The title is wrong. They didn't file a DMCA claim.
Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
by Gaelan on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:42PM
(#23081947)
…what? The repository [0] shows up as "unavailable due to DMCA takedown," and links to a notice [1] that explicitly references the DMCA.
[0]: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...
Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown
by koheripbal on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:32PM
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That's because Github doesn't have a different message for non-DMCA threats of lawsuits. If you look at one of the other top-level comments, you'll see that they didn't actually get a DMCA takedown - but a threatening lawyers letter.
This doesn't contradict the claim you're responding to. It may well be that Popcorn Time is illegal by way of contributing to copyright abuse, as you claim.
But that doesn't make a DMCA claim the correct tool for taking it down. As was said earlier, a DMCA claim specifically asserts ownership of the IP in question, and that is clearly not applicable here.
So sure, there's probably some tool that could be used to get it removed, but DMCA is not it. I'd guess they'd need some kind of more general cease and desist.