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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Dehydrated@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Might put it on torrents as well.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 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.