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Originally Posted by psychonic
Kigen childishly issued a DMCA takedown request against it rather than waiting for the miniscule amount of his code that was left in the project to be documented to his exact specification. BitBucket removed the project immediately without any question or fact-finding.
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Wow, what a douchebag. Not only for pulling that, but for cowardly hiding behind and abusing DMCA takedown requests to bully people around. (Also, paying $200 to file the claim on a free and open-source plugin over the simple mistake of forgetting a GPL License header is a bit stupid. Hell, he could have just as easily made a fork, put the header back in, and done a pull request, right?)
(Does he even have a registered copyright over it, in order for it to hold actual legal ground? Also, regarding the GPL License,
doesn't the DMCA completely stand against the founding principles of it all?)