Hacker News Reader

GitHub is partially responsible here too. It seems the action is remove first ask questions later. Why can’t there be more protection? Innocent until proven guilty, anyone?

View on HN

That's not GitHub's decision. It's the way the law works. They have a thorough explanation with links to viewpoints challenging DMCA on the submitted page.

They can legally reinstate the pages with a simple counter-claim / attestation though, but they don’t seem to have implemented that feature of the DMCA yet.

They have to wait 10 days if the people who filed the notice don't respond.

Which is hardly fair if the takedown notice doesn't even have information you'd need to respond - like what exactly is meant to be the infringing content.

Also, the claimant allowing one business day (whatever that even means, given the scummy company is in Pakistan and the scummy hiring company is in the US, and the alleged infringees are all over the place!) is quite obviously ridiculous.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com