Monit Team Widthdraws Inspeqtor Takedown

github.com

41 points·dpeck··9 comments

What a fun day.

Now here's the only URL you need. :-D

https://github.com/mperham/inspeqtor/wiki#getting-started

Glad to see it ended well. You got yourself some good PR too, I will definitely be considering using inspeqtor in my projects now; I didn't know about it before.

This made me respect the Monit team more. Very good apology.

Background discussion from earlier today in case you missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416773

I'm not familiar with the situation here, but it's nice to see the Monit guys retracting what ended up to be a misguided takedown.

Anybody know if there was any sort of formal apology made from Monit to the people behind inspeqtor (presumably @mperham on Github)?

https://twitter.com/mperham/status/519326759930454016

Congratulations to Mike Perham. Sidekiq is an impressive project, I hope that Inspeqtor will follow its path and serve the needs of thousands of users in the years to come.

Now that the DMCA has been taken down, it's time to kiq some ass!

The cynic in me believes that monit's DMCA takedown notice was soon to be invalidated anyway. I'm seeing this as damage control more than an honest attempt to correct their mistake.

There's no such thing as "soon to be invalidated" in DMCA, in practice anyway. It would have stretched on and on, and the takedown-issuer definitely has the advantage.

They probably did realize their legal case wasn't entirely clear, but that's not stopped plenty of companies before. They probably also realized it was really bad PR. They probably also realized it was just plain jerky behavior. And wasn't necessary for the success of their project.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com