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Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The mistake is forking and hosting it on GitHub. If Haier sends GitHub a DMCA takedown notice, they will comply, and the forks will be deleted too. Use other hosting services for redundancy and keep a local copy.

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Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Might put it on torrents as well.

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psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t think there’s a copyright component to this. DMCA isn’t on the table

Haier were implying that they might sue if the developer didn’t take it down

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- trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good point. Nothing in the article explicitly states that it’s a copyright claim, but they do mention “protecting… [their] intellectual property”. In any case, it’s always easier for the website host to fold to cover their own asses than to continue hosting the content.
  
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  - psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The letter from haier says it is a beach of TOS. It’s directly a “take it down or we’ll delete your account” letter
    
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