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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:38AM (#23081189)
You're splitting hairs in a way that doesn't matter. MGM vs. Grokster and subsequent interpretation is clear that inducing copyright infringement is something that a DMCA takedown covers. Indeed, Github links to this ruling in their own documents about DMCA counter notices: https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to-submi...

"Sometimes distributing software can be copyright infringement, if you induce end users to use the software to infringe copyrighted works."

Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by koheripbal on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:35PM (#23082557)
Github didn't get a DMCA takedown. They just got a threatening lawyer's letter. See the other top-level comment about it.

Title of post is wrong.