Ask PG: Has HN ever received a DMCA Takedown Notice?

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13 years ago

I thought it was really weird to find the following submission marked [dead] and was curious if it was due to flagging or if it was due to you getting a DMCA notice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579615

[dead] CipherCloud DMCA notice to remove discussion of homomorphic encryption (stackexchange.com) 39 points by dfc 18 hours ago | flag | 16 comments

My bet is it got clobbered by flagging, but if I put on my tin foil hat, flagging until [dead] may have been caused by abusive flagging.

The more important question is whether or not HN has ever received any DMCA Takedown Notices?

You went through the trouble to put a "DMCA" link at the bottom of nearly every page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html

In reading through the above, it doesn't say anything about publication of received DMCA notices? It would be great if you published DMCA notices on the ChillingEffects.org site:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/

EDIT: It seems the cause of the [dead] was a duplicate post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579538

But I'm still curious if HN has gotten any DMCA notices?

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