The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident | Aaron Meurer's Blog

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The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident | Aaron Meurer's Blog

https://asmeurer.com/blog/posts/the-sympy-hackerrank-dmca-incident/

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Self-hosting would not have prevented this. The DMCA take-down notice would have been sent to your hosting provider or ISP. It's happened to me once.

The real problem is there is no penalty for making false DMCA claims, even though they are theoretically under penalty of perjury. The correct thing to do would be to make the liability for doing so the same as that for an actual copyright infringement.