• winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      On the grounds that the dmca is a blank check to let big corporations do whatever the fuck they want. It doesn’t have to be legal, but if you don’t take whatever they want down then that’s illegal and could get you (GitHub, in this case) in serious trouble.

    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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      7 months ago

      I haven’t gone into detail on this, but I suspect some shiny-suited, greasy-haired wanker lawyer has been able to make a case that things like site-specific CSS classes and the like can somehow be covered by DMCA.

      I’m 100% speculating (not American, not a lawyer) but it’s more than URIs and Javascript, is what I’m saying.