Re:Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
by codys on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:37AM
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Apple is hosting user created content though (in the form of apps). Don't they become liable for that hosting if they don't handle the DMCA request themselves?
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Re:Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
by fxtentacle on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:31AM
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Yes, in this case Apple would be the recipient. And even though they did not create the infringing app, the DMCA take-down forces them to block access to it.
In effect, you'd be triggering the same sequence that led to youtube-dl being blocked on GitHub for a while. Surely, GitHub = Microsoft didn't build it, but they still had to block access when the RIAA sent a DMCA.
In the youtube-dl case, the DMCA notice was later found to be fraudulent and thus the access was restored. But if the infringing app re-uses images verbatim, that won't happen so it stays offline.