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...which is there was no DMCA in this situation. The title is wrong. They didn't file a DMCA claim.


…what? The repository [0] shows up as "unavailable due to DMCA takedown," and links to a notice [1] that explicitly references the DMCA.

[0]: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...


That's because Github doesn't have a different message for non-DMCA threats of lawsuits. If you look at one of the other top-level comments, you'll see that they didn't actually get a DMCA takedown - but a threatening lawyers letter.




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