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I don't get the title here ("Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address"). From my read of the tweet ("I've just received a DMCA takedown notice regarding the GitHub mirror of these documents"), they sent a takedown for the documentation that someone downloaded and then uploaded to GitHub. The DMCA takedown has nothing to do with an IP address.

And I think it's pretty uncontroversial that downloading some company's stuff and posting it somewhere else (without permission) would constitute copyright infringement. Just because you have access to something, it doesn't mean you have a license to do whatever you please with it.

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The DMCA notice can be found here https://lumendatabase.org/notices/25498447 which includes an IP address (along with some tweets).

Looks like the IP is a twitter.com one, or possible GitHub's. Either way, it has essentially nothing to do with the copyright claim.

It’s the IP where all the documents are from. Apparently Apple or Apple-related.

Ah, thanks! The title is wildly wrong, then.

Apparently one of the tweets taken down was just a link to it

Numbers are now illegal, like 101 132 96 154!

It is cool that they use Lua for the debugger.

The IP address is owned by a company out of China. It's hosting (it still apparently is) some internal Apple documents for whatever reason. Apple (or someone acting for Apple) sent a takedown to Twitter to remove any links to the IP address.

It's a confusing mess, but since the DMCA notice is public, anyone can still go visit the documents.

At least until the little server it's on goes poof.

> they sent a takedown for the documentation

TFA seems to be referring to http://101.132.96.154/:

> What is Atlas?

> Atlas is a toolbox of common software components for the development of calibration and test stations. Atlas is not an out-of-the-box sequencer; Atlas provides the tools and building blocks to build many types of sequencers.

I'm not sure I'd call that "documentation" given how vague-to-the-point-of-uselessness it is, though.

    local path = "/usr/local/lua/lib/libluasocket.so"
    -- or path = "C:\\windows\\luasocket.dll"
    local f = assert(loadlib(path, "luaopen_socket"))
    f()  -- actually open the library

The title is refering this tweet[0]. The OP had a tweet with just the IP adress, and that tweet was DMCA'd.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/14509454451995...

Had the same reaction. I must be missing something, or MAYBE this person has an axe to grind.

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