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A comment on Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, Casio Files DMCA Complaint. Parent comment

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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