Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:13PM
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> This was definitely an unintended consequence.
A person driving 100 miles per hour down a residential street and crashing into something is an unintended consequence, but not unforeseen.
This may have been "unintended" but when you have a company file DMCA notices on your behalf without proper supervision (especially when they had filed DMCA notices like this against other open source libraries) it is not "unforeseen" for them to file a DMCA notice against a completely innocent project.
At the very minimum the open source library that was affected and their maintainers deserve monetary recompense for the time and stress that your actions have cost them.
A person driving 100 miles per hour down a residential street and crashing into something is an unintended consequence, but not unforeseen.
This may have been "unintended" but when you have a company file DMCA notices on your behalf without proper supervision (especially when they had filed DMCA notices like this against other open source libraries) it is not "unforeseen" for them to file a DMCA notice against a completely innocent project.
At the very minimum the open source library that was affected and their maintainers deserve monetary recompense for the time and stress that your actions have cost them.