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Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by stormcode on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:31AM (#25288614)
Sadly, this is corporate America these days. We are living in the Cyberpunk future where corporations have the upper hand and are not required to provide an actual reasonable human to investigate or pass judgement on your issue. You see it with the algos that run user interfacing parts of Youtube, Facebook regularly.

It's messed up. I'm sorry your code got stolen.

Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by ficklepickle on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:51AM (#25288784)
You mean a free service won't pay someone to hold my hand and make me feel better? Egregious!

The whole premise of this post makes no sense. He posted code on his site, that he wants other people to use, but they are forbidden from changing a single line. But he didn't want it on github, because that means that Microsoft stole it.

It is lame that someone copied it without attribution. But it is a pretty minor transgression in the grand scheme of things. Certainly no financial harm done and nothing has been taken away. You can't control bytes once they are out there. Information wants to be free.

If it bothers you that much, pay a lawyer. If it was too easy to get things taken down, it would be abused by wealthy corporations (even more), and youtube-dl would be gone for good.

If I got this upset about every perceived slight, I'd be waging battles dawn til dusk. Pick your battles, folks.

Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by gspr on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:41AM (#25288698)
There's plenty of problems with corporate control of the Internet, but this here ain't one. This is, in fact, one of those situations where the DMCA does a good job.
Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by thorough on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:53PM (#25292877)
All right, you've stated that you think that having to remedy such an obvious abuse by hiring a lawyer is not a problem. But the question is, why don't you think it's a problem?
Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by gspr on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:14PM (#25296747)
I do think that would be a problem. But I don't think that's what's on the line here. Why would you need a lawyer to file a DMCA notice against GitHub if you're 100% certain that the code in question is copyrighted by you and distributed unlawfully?
Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by thorough on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:39PM (#25297544)
I think the article states and it has been repeated several times in the comments here that the author already did so and that a lawyer is now required because the offender disputed the claim.
Re:My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has M... by gspr on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:07AM (#25300138)
Why would a lawyer be required?