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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by bawolff on Sunday October 25, 2020 @05:52AM (#24885081)
A company is under no obligation to comply with an invalid notice. Wikipedia ignores invalid DMCA requests all the time.

It is risky though, as the company opens itself up to a lot of liability if its wrong.

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Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git by mschuster91 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:24PM (#24888600)
wikipedia has the advantage that they can deploy a banner informing people about stuff in an instant. From some googling, back in 2015 Wikipedia had half a billion monthly users - that is massive reachout capability.

Anyone daring to put up a fight with Wikipedia risks being flattened by outrage.

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