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This code is meant for censorship, not DMCA. Replacing the content with "sorry, this thing broke copyright laws" is how you deal with DMCA, not stopping people from accessing whole sites.

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It is not! Read the RFC - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725 - helpfully entitled "An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles."

Those obstacles could be censorship, or copyright infringement, or illegal mathematics - anything.

That's what I was thinking as well. DMCA is just an excuse. Github already blocked content at the request of Russian government, and I'm sure they will block more stuff that they're not legally required to remove in the future.

Er, citation required? IME they do what's required by U.S. law and have previously been fairly principled about not complying with extrajudicial requests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Russia

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