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Re:Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio ... by tomxor on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:02PM (#23284535)
Why? I realize that money and lawyers can make a big difference in arguable cases, but this DMCA is plainly invalid, it's not possible to interpret it differently without being untruthful.

The demands are to be gone... which it already is, there is nothing to lose in challenging the complaint. Even if concerned about retaliation or further legal action from Casio, all this guy did is essentially glue extra stuff inside a calculator case and publish a video of him doing it on youtube, it's not even particularly interesting from a hacker perspective because nothing about the calculator itself was learned, it's a true duct tape mod.

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> Neutrino informs us that he has already filed a DMCA counternotice with Github to get his project back.

And it's back:

https://github.com/laksh9950/Hack-Casio-Calculator

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Re:Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio ... by metaphor on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:19AM (#23289572)
> ...there is nothing to lose in challenging the complaint.

Are you sure? See GitHub's DMCA counter notice policy[1], specifically, item 3:

> Provide your contact information. Include your email address, name, telephone number, and physical address.

In other words, without paying to retain legal counsel, this guy would have to expose his personal identifiable information (surrendering anonymity) to an unethical, ruthless pack of legal professionals to restore the repo and live with the looming threat of all sorts of perfectly legal harassment.

[1] https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guide-to-submi...

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Re:Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio ... by tomxor on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:49AM (#23299833)
As far as I can tell that information is for GitHub only.
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Re:Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio ... by metaphor on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:16AM (#23299951)
By submitting a DMCA counter notice, you're legally signaling the claimant...it's definitely not just for GitHub's internal records.
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Re:Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio ... by kiddico on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:15PM (#23286526)
I'll clone that locally juuust in case :)
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