Re:Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA
by chii on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @12:00AM
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This is the most bullshit DMCA takedown i've seen.
> How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures?
> For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content.
How is using web archive considered DMCA circumvention?
Re:Bypass-paywalls-Firefox addon taken down by DMCA
by mrinfinitiesx on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @12:33AM
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It's considered controversial 'oh shit' territory for Github and they made a quick and concise action based on fear rather than having a spine about it.
> How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures?
> For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content.
How is using web archive considered DMCA circumvention?
I don't own the repo, but i do hope the owners of the repo dispute it, because the takedown has no real leg to stand on.