I, for one, heard a few too many times "this was the last straw" for every single privacy breach that happened in the past decade and resulted in no meaningful change for the better, so I find it hard to take this kind of statements seriously anymore. Is there any kind of basis that you'd like to provide for your speculation?
I think it's because it's a stretch of the law and can then abused to block a LOT more.
If you want to escape US law, feel free to use gitee.com located in China. Or, push your politicians to change the laws.
Microsoft has no way of overcoming the DMCA law themselves, other major companies have continued to lose lawsuits. It doesn't help that mega monopoly entities like Disney want it to stay taht way and will bribe politicians and others.
The ban on circumvention tools allows for a claim in civil court, during which a judge may restrict availability of the program.
...assuming the DMCA request was valid. Some commenters in earlier HN threads were arguing that it wasn't.
However given that i work on some P2P services that could be argued scrape and/or distribute, i'm heavily debating moving. A nice host for a potential employer to view is not worth being DMCA'd.
I hope this causes a lot of additional desire to decentralize these portions of the dev workflow stack. Potential solutions exist, but no one cares.. i hope we collectively start caring more, and adopting solutions.
I think you are overestimating the amount of repositories that are affected by DMCA takedown threats (erroneous or legit).
That issue tracker was a great way to lose faith in humanity, just from the sheer number of people who couldn't follow instructions to search for existing issues before opening new ones, or to provide all the answers the issue template asked for.
It supports dozens of sites btw. That's what I'm specifically referring to.
